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Bangladesh: Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management ProjectInvitation for Submission of Expressions of Interest (EOI)The Government of Bangladesh intends to take a loan from the Asian Development Bank for the proposed Southwest Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project. The Project aims to enhance the livelihood of the rural population by improving the productivity and sustainability of existing under-performing flood control and drainage/irrigation (FCD/I) schemes through holistic and participatory planning, development, and management of water, and delivery of support services to address locally identified constraints on agriculture, fishery, and livelihood development. During the process, the Project will set up and strengthen, up-front at the preconstruction stage, viable water management associations (WMAs), which will take on key roles in all program delivery decisions and sustainable operation and maintenance (O&M) of local water infrastructure, while installing institutional capacities within the supporting agencies to manage the overall process, including O&M of main water infrastructure. The Project will cover 100,000 hectares (ha) of FCD/I schemes in the southwest areas and benefit about 0.8 million rural population, the majority of whom are poor. The Project's overall impact will be enhanced economic growth and reduced poverty in the concerned FCD/I areas, while providing a model for rejuvenating poorly performing FCD/I systems that can be replicated throughout the country. The Project outcome will be enhanced and sustained productivity of the selected existing FCD/I systems suffering from low performance and high incidence of poverty. The outcome will be achieved by
The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) under the Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR) now invites expression of interest (EOI) from eligible consulting firms of the member countries of ADB to perform the consulting services for institutional strengthening and project management support (ISPMS) which aims to support BWDB, Water Resources Planning Organization (WARPO), and other implementing agencies to fulfill the critical institutional gaps to deliver the intended Project outputs while institutionalizing the process of identifying, planning, implementing, and managing water resources from an integrated and cross-sectoral perspective, with the establishment of viable WMAs. The ISPMS consultancy will have a clear exit strategy and create, as its essential output, a pool of highly qualified engineers and other staff having participatory and client-oriented management skills, with their acquisition, development and field practice under the Project. The specific scope of work for the ISPMS consultants includes the provision of advice and support to the Project organizations in undertaking
These will be supported in close coordination with the relevant support provided under Water Management Improvement Project assisted by the World Bank and the Government of the Netherlands and the twinning missions fielded by the latter Government. The ISPMS consultants will critically develop staff capacities within BWDB, WARPO, and other implementing agencies to undertake the aforementioned tasks with distinct skills development targets for the concerned staff. They should become capable of managing the Project processes on their own with progressively reducing consultancy inputs (phasing out approach). To this end, the ISPMS consultants will provide intensive on-the-job advisory support for staff to fulfill the assigned tasks, along with subject matter training of staff and in-house trainers. Individual members within the ISPMS team will also have specifically assigned Project counterpart staff who are responsible for achieving the pre-defined targets. Over the 7-year project implementation period, the ISPMS consulting services are estimated to require a total of 72 person-months of international and 532 person-months of domestic consulting services, with a cost of some $3.7 million, comprising $0.7 million for preparation of the IWMPs with feasibility studies (this requires 14 person-months of international and 73 person-months of domestic consultants), and $3.0 million for IWMP implementation, excluding contingencies and subcontracted surveys and studies. In consideration of the non-engineering complexity and the need for early mobilization, the consultants will be selected by ADB and engaged by the Government through a firm in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants and other arrangements satisfactory to ADB for engaging domestic consultants through quality- and cost-based selection procedures. Download the detailed Terms of Reference. Application Submission:All applications must be delivered by mail, fax or email to the following address on or before 1200 hrs, 15 December 2005: Mr. Kenichi Yokoyama |
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