Consultant for Transfer of Knowledge from the Czech Republic for Backstopping and... Tender

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Country : Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary : Consultant for Transfer of Knowledge from the Czech Republic for Backstopping and Support to the Development of the Guide on Best Practices and Recommendations to Increase Utilization of Wood Biomass

Deadline : 24 Sep 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 26463814

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Zmaja od Bosne b.b. 71000 Sarajevo Tel: +387 (33) 293 400 Fax: +387 (33) 552 330
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Email :registry.ba@undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultant for Transfer of Knowledge from the Czech Republic for Backstopping and Support to the Development of the Guide on Best Practices and Recommendations to Increase Utilization of Wood Biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Background

The International consultant for transfer of knowledge from the Czech Republic for backstopping and support to the development of the Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina will contribute to the successful implementation of the Biomass Energy for Employment and Energy Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina Project (2016-2019) financed by the Czech Development Agency. The Project aims to further strengthen and enhance the energy safety of rural communities throughout the Country, while fostering the development of enterprises for processing locally available wood biomass, and setting up sustainable partnerships, that contribute to the economic development of micro-regions.
The Project will improve the population-s living standard by contributing to the reduction of the CO2 emissions because of increased renewable energy.
The Project duration is 36 months and its budget amounts to EUR 886 000.
The planned activities can be grouped into three main and inter-linked components, as follows:

· Component 1: Policy development for sustainable wood biomass utilization in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

· Component 2: Quality and availability of the wood biomass energy carrier increased for heating purposes due to the adoption and use of updated wood biomass processing methods;

· Component 3: Business models and financing schemes developed and enabled for investments in wood biomass infrastructure projects / Implementation of demonstration projects.

The Project outcome is: “Higher renewable energy share in the BiH energy mix as a part of the global new sustainable development agenda”.
This outcome is directly linked to the SDG 7 related to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. More specifically to target 7.2 - to increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by the year 2030.
Furthermore, this initiative contributes to the achievement of the SDG 13 (Climate action) as responsible and sustainable forest management, including the sustainable utilization of wood biomass potentials, represents one of the cornerstones of endeavors to adapt to climate change.
Finally, the initiative is related to SDG 15 (Life on land) as it refers to sustainable management of forests as the dominant terrestrial ecosystems both at planet Earth and Bosnia and Herzegovina (more than 50% of the country territory is covered with forests).





Duties and Responsibilities

Component 1 of the Project (Policy development for sustainable wood biomass utilization in Bosnia and Herzegovina), activity 1.2 (Development of effective policies and legislation framework) aims to develop a comprehensive overview of potential policy and legislative framework amendment recommendations. In addition, this activity includes development of a Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focused on the forestry operational practices and methods, management operations and best available technologies to contribute to facilitation of increased use of wood biomass including involvement of wide variety of stakeholders from the relevant sectors.
It is necessary to emphasize that currently there are no clear forest governance mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina providing the essentials of a wood biomass market - the security of supply of wood biomass to ensure the reliability of continuous supply for the required demand, i.e. required quantity and quality. Namely, more and more is invested in heating, ventilation and air conditioning infrastructure and refurbishment of buildings which contain fuel-switch projects (from fossil to wood biomass). As a result, the demand for higher energy carrier quantity and quality (in terms of net calorific value) increases. However, due to lack of developed, adopted and enforced forest governance mechanisms, which is one of the key enabling points for assuring a balanced supply/demand environment within Bosnia and Herzegovina-s wood biomass market, it is of high importance to introduce best practices and operational methods within the fragmented forest governance and thus create standardization and a systematic approach to forest governance, while enabling a better business environment for wood biomass supply (in combination with right legislative environment in place). This initiative is directly linked to the facilitation of optimal use of wood biomass by creating a guide which will take into consideration forestry operational practices and methods, management operations and best available technologies including involvement of wide variety of stakeholders from the relevant sectors.
Having this in mind, the objective of this consultancy is to transfer valuable Czech experience in this field which will contribute to increased quality and pave the way for practical use of the Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Based on the strong commitment and engagement of relevant state and entity ministries responsible for environment domain (including forestry), the ultimate outcome of this initiative will be a knowledge product, which will be institutionalized by relevant authorities, thus serving as a pioneer framework for forestry practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Purpose of the consultancy

As per the Project Document and in agreement with the Project Board, it is planned to engage a local service provider to lead the implementation of this activity. The local service provider will be a company (or a group of local consultants) selected with the task to develop the “Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The Guide should be prepared in English language and have a strong emphasis on the practical use. Draft version of the Guide will be translated to local languages and delivered to relevant stakeholders for review and approval. A short draft of the further steps, how to use the Guide in the practice will be included.
Therefore, the purpose of this consultancy is to transfer valuable Czech knowledge in sustainable utilization of wood biomass by embedding lessons learnt, adequate practices and practical recommendations within the “Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina” and pave the way for practical use of the Guide in the future. The added value of Czech expertise would consist of knowledge transfer in relation to the current renewable energy circumstances in the EU, current forestry best practices in the Czech Republic, accession process related to targets of renewable energy and how Czech Republic has adopted to the requirements of EU in this sense. Detailed structure and topics of the Guide will be discussed and approved with the CO of the UNDP in Bosnia and Hercegovina and other selected stakeholders.
The Consultant will also ensure overall backstopping in the process. Ultimately, the preparation of the Guide shall be prepared based on the rich experience of the Czech Republic and in cooperation with relevant stakeholders from different forest-related sectors, i.e. agriculture, environment protection - particularly segment of nature protection, wood processing etc.
The selected international consultant is expected to closely coordinate with the Project Manager of the “Biomass Energy for Employment and Energy Security” project, funded by the Czech Development Agency. To enable effective cooperation between the local service provider and the contributions by the international expert, the Project will facilitate regular exchange of information and close interaction between these sides in the process of design of the Guide.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The international consultant for transfer of knowledge from the Czech Republic for backstopping and support to the development of the Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager of the “Biomass Energy for Employment and Energy Security” project, funded by the Czech Development Agency, who will approve and confirm the quality of outputs, to complete all activities specified in this Terms of Reference.

Scope of work:

The selected international consultant will be responsible for accomplishment of following tasks:

Backstopping for development of a methodology for development of the “Guide on best practices and recommendations to increase utilization of wood biomass in Bosnia and Herzegovina” which should focus on:

· Forestry operational practices and methods, management operations and best available technologies;

· Involvement of wide variety of stakeholders from relevant forest-related sectors, i.e. agriculture, environment protection - particularly segment of nature protection, wood processing etc., including the state and entity level institutions responsible for forest-related sectors (responsible ministries and agencies) as well as stakeholders active at local level (enterprises responsible for forest management, forest offices, relevant NGOs, representatives of wood processing companies etc.). This segment should also include development of appropriate questionnaires to assess knowledge increase on practices and technologies for sustainable utilization of wood biomass;

Development of a detailed content of the Guide including but not limited to following aspects that have to be taken into consideration w

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