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The UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Individual Consultant for Knowledge Products on Development Minerals in the Guinea. This Tender notice was published on 22 Sep 2017 and is scheduled to close on 30 Oct 2017, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 16682264, while the tender notice number is and Registering on the platform.
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Country: Guinea
Summary: Individual Consultant for Knowledge Products on Development Minerals
Deadline: 30 Oct 2017
Posting Date: 22 Sep 2017
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 16682264
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Financier: United Nations Secretariat
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Tender Value: Refer Document
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Tenders are invited for Individual Consultant for One (1) of up to Five (5) Knowledge Products on Development Minerals in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Regions.
Background
The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is a three-year, €13.1 million capacity building program that aims to build the profile, and improve the management, of Development Minerals (industrial minerals; construction materials; dimension stones; and semi-precious stones). The program is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, financed by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and implemented by UNDP.
From toothpaste to paints, and buildings to plates, the mining of Development Minerals are intrinsic to everyday life. But despite their potential to impact the livelihoods of millions of people, these minerals have been neglected in development debates. `Development Minerals` are minerals and materials that are mined, processed, manufactured and used domestically in industries such as construction, manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture. Development Minerals are economically important - close to the location where the commodity is mined and include industrial minerals, like gypsum and salt, construction materials, like sand and gravel, dimension stones, like marble and granite, and semi-precious stones, like garnet and tourmaline..
The mining of Development Minerals has important implications for sustainable development, however, they have to date received inadequate attention for their potential to impact livelihoods; and few development programmes have provided support for this mining sub-sector. Often referred to as Low Value Minerals and Materials (LVMM) due to their low price as a function of their weight, and their relatively low value to international commodity markets, Development Minerals provide crucial inputs for domestic economic development (infrastructure, manufacturing, construction and agriculture to name a few) and have the potential to be high value in terms of national development.
In comparison to the metals sector, Development Minerals have closer links with the local economy, and have the potential to generate more local jobs, with a greater impact on poverty reduction. This is partly because the sector is dominated by small and medium scale domestic businesses. However, there are a number of environmental, social and economic challenges confronting the sector. Development Minerals commonly operate in an uncertain legal and regulatory environment, with a lack of publicly available and easily accessible geological data, which exacerbates wasteful exploration and discourages investment in the sector. The oversight of environmental, social, health and safety, and labour issues is often inadequate, and weak or often non-existent technical extension services such as skills training, capacity building, access to technology, finance, appropriate equipment, investment information and markets, has contributed to the sector’s neglect.
The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is being implemented at both the regional and country levels. At the regional level, the programme conducts capacity building activities with participants from forty ACP countries through regional training workshops, field trips, the production of guidance products and knowledge exchange. The programme will also host a final conference to enhance the knowledge sharing activities conducted during the programme. Participants of our regional training workshops implement the skills and knowledge that they have gained from the training through return to work plans.
At the country level, in depth capacity building is undertaken with six focus countries: Cameroon (Central Africa); Guinea - Conakry (West Africa); Uganda (East Africa); Zambia (Southern Africa); Jamaica (Caribbean); and Fiji (Pacific). Country-level activities include: training; small grants; the production of maps and databases; development of regulations on environment, health and safety; organization of community dialogues, technology fairs and networking events.
Capacity building support is provided in the following thematic areas of importance to the sector: 1) mine and quarry management; 2) environment, health and safety; 3) entrepreneurship skills; 4) market analysis and investment promotion; 5) geo-data and maps design; 6) community relations and addressing grievances.
The programme supports a range of key stakeholders in the sector, including public stakeholders such as regulatory agencies and local governments; private stakeholders such as small-scale mining enterprises, intermediaries, transportation and logistics service providers, construction companies; business development stakeholders such as mining and quarrying associations, chambers of mines, training centres, universities, consulting companies; and social stakeholders such as civil society organizations and community groups.
The aim of the capacity building activities are to:
Enhance employment and incomes, including employment and incomes of women
Improve the policy and regulatory environment
Minimize environmental impacts on communities
Address individual and community rights and preventing conflict
Ensure decent working conditions
Facilitate South-South cooperation and cross-country learning
RATIONALE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS
UNDP’s Knowledge Management Strategy 2014-2017 aims to strengthen UNDP’s role as knowledge broker, builder of capacities and facilitator of exchanges in the global development debate. It further lays down UNDP’s strategy for planning, developing and disseminating knowledge products in ways that make them “more relevant to clients’ needs, more flexible and timely in their development and format, and more measurable in their quality and impact.”
In this regard, the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is seeking to develop a range of knowledge products that cover the whole spectrum of the 6 thematic focus areas for the programme, namely:
Mine and quarry management;
Environment, health and safety;
Entrepreneurship skills;
Market analysis and investment promotion;
Geo-data and maps design;
Community relations and addressing grievances.
The Knowledge Products will target the following constituents:
Participants of the capacity building activities (namely, public stakeholders; private stakeholders; business development stakeholders; and civil society stakeholders);
Interested sector specialists, including, key regional institutions in the ACP, multi-lateral and bi-lateral institutions, development partners, research institutions, academia, international and national NGOs, civil society actors, the financial services sector, private equity firms and other UN agencies.
Duties and Responsibilities
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Applications will be accepted for the preparation of knowledge products on Development Minerals. Each individual applicant should submit an application for the preparation of a single product. The matrix below provides a list of example knowledge products for which the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is seeking proposals. The matrix provides a description of the product. Up to five (5) individual applications to develop a knowledge product will be chosen for the assignments and not all of the products listed in the matrix will necessarily be chosen. Individual applicants are invited to submit proposals for alternative knowledge products on topics relevant to the focus of the ACP-EU Development Minerals programme. Alternative topics must adhere to the requirements and specifications outlined in this Terms of Reference in terms of method, approach, scope and number of person-days for the assignment. The level of effort expected for each product is fifty (50) person-days.
Item
Name
Brief Description
Number of pages
1
Protocol for identification of environmental and social risks in financing the mining and quarrying of Development Minerals
The Protocol will support financial service providers such as banks to appropriately factor the risks associated with the extraction of industrial minerals, construction materials, dimension stones and semi-precious stones when making lending decisions.
50
Thematic Focus & Key Components:
Development Minerals are non-metallic and non-energy minerals and therefore they have a different risk profile to that which is common to the remainder of the mining sector. Their environmental impact through-out the mining life cycle is different to that of metals such as gold or copper, which may require the use of hazardous process chemicals or generate Acid and Metaliferous Drainage. The environmental impact of the quarrying of industrial minerals and construction materials are local (for example, dust, noise and sedimentation) and similar to other forms of land development that can be managed with established environmental controls. The relatively low price of Development Minerals as a function of their weight, contrasts with precious stones and precious metals which can be attractive to conflict actors to assist in financing of conflict. Further Development Minerals may be less prone to boom and bust cycles due to the fact that their market is local and not subject to international commodity markets and the Development Minerals sector is dominated by SMEs. Despite the uniqueness of Development Minerals many banks and financial services providers do not distinguish them from other parts of the mining sector.
This Protocol aims at providing guidance on:
The existing processes and protocols used by financial service providers to assess the risks of mining projects
Identification of different types of Development Minerals and their origin and a d
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