| Overview : Dear Sir / Madam: We kindly request you to submit your Proposal for 2015/02/RFP – Development of the appendix of the Water Charter related to “the List of Planned Measures to be Submitted for Notification and Modalities of Notification, Instruction and Issuance of the Implementation Authorisation Proposals may be submitted on or before 16:00 CET, Monday, March 9, 2015 via courier mail to the address below: United Nations Development Programme Istanbul Regional Hub for Europe and the CIS Key Plaza, 10th floor, Abide-i Hürriyet Cd. İstiklal Sk. No/11 Şişli, 34381, Istanbul, Turkey
Mr. Murat Akin, Procurement Manager Proposal must be expressed in English, and valid for a minimum period of 90 days. In the course of preparing your Proposal, it shall remain your responsibility to ensure that it reaches the address above on or before the deadline. Proposals that are received by UNDP after the deadline indicated above, for whatever reason, shall not be considered for evaluation. The Lake Chad Basin is the largest endoreic tributary basin in Africa covering a size of close to 2,355,000 km2, or 8 % of the size of the continent and covering several countries such as Algeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan. The Fort-Lamy Convention of 22 May 1964 established the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and assigned to its founding member countries (Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad) the protection of transboundary water resources of the Basin. The Central African Republic and Libya joined the Institution respectively in 1994 and 2008. The following documents were adopted in line with the challenges facing Lake Chad: LCBC Master Plan (1992), Strategic Action Plan (1998), Vision 2025 (2000). Strategic Action Programme of the Lake Chad Basin (SAP, 2008). The Vision 2025 adopted an integrated and sustainable management policy of the basin. With the assistance of the African Development Bank (AfDB), LCBC developed its Water Charter in a participatory manner between 2009 and 2011. The Water Charter was adopted and signed by the Summit of LCBC’s Heads of State and Government on 30 April 2012. It will be supplemented by fourteen appendices. Five of the appendices have been drafted in the approved Charter. The other 9 appendices are to be drafted by the LCBC and its Technical partners. To make the Charter effective, all the listed appendices need to be prepared to be attached to the adopted charter. The UNDP-Shared Waters Partnership (SWP) initiative promotes cooperative approaches to share water, which can advance peace, security, environmental protection and open new opportunities for riparian states to sustainably develop their water resources. In this framework, support will be provided to the Lake Chad basin commission to develop the Annexe of the Water Charter related to the List of Planned Measures to be Submitted For Notification And Modalities of Notification, Instruction and Issuance of the Implementation Authorisation. The overall objective of the study is to enable the member countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission consolidate the legal and institutional framework for the integrated management of the water resources of the Lake Chad basin and secure the requirements of a harmonised, participatory and sustainable management of the environment in accordance with the statute of the Commission, the LCBC Water Charter, universal and regional conventions as well as community instruments on the management of transboundary water resources. This requires the identification of planned measures and how they will be processed at the international level. |
