Overview : A Project preparation grant (PPG)as per GEF terminology,has been approved and funding is required to finalize the Full-size project (FSP) on Sound Chemicals Management Mainstreaming and UPOPs reduction in Kenya. This FSP would start in 2015.
The project on “Sound Chemicals Management Mainstreaming and UPOPs reduction in Kenya "will focus on Chemicals Mainstreaming in Kenya led by the Ministry of Environment Water and Natural Resources and the Ministry of Health and four ( 4 ) main urban counties in Kenya (Mombasa, Nairobi, Nakuru and Kisumu), as per the approval of the GEF Council.
The PPG is necessary in order to refine the project's objectives, outcomes, and outputs as well as the work plan, budget and timeline for each of the five project components. The PPG grant will be applied to finance consultations, assessments and assistance provided by the national project consultant and UNDP technical experts, for the purpose of improving baseline scenario mapping, further defining the project activities, determining an appropriate execution modality, securing co-financing resources, ensuring the cost-effectiveness and defining global benefits of the project and how the projects can help Kenya comply with the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The PPG’s budget is USD 150,000 and it is aimed to be completed by January 2015. The PPG and the FSP are under the GEF Chemicals and waste Focal area as it relates to POPs which are covered by the Stockholm Convention. As details of the administrative aspects of the project's design are scrutinized, an appropriate project execution modality for the FSP will be finalized. The project concept for the FSP was approved (PIF) as well for a total amount of USD 4.5 million, and an expected co-financing of US$18M.
Objective
The objective of this contract is for the Project Document International Consultant (IC) to be in charge of finalizing the project documents and all elements required to accompany it for submission to the GEF. The IC will work in close coordination and under supervision of the UNDP Kenya Country Office (CO) with project formulation oversight by UNDP technical support team from the Turkey Regional Service Centre (TRC) of UNDP.
He/She will also work and supervise a National Consultant to be recruited separately by UNDP |