Preparing Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash) Sector Development Program Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Ghana

Summary : Preparing Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash) Sector Development Program

Deadline : 10 Mar 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 40861604

Document Ref. No. : 1267056

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : MINISTRY OF SANITATION AND WATER RESOURCES
Starlets 91 Road, Ministries PMB 60, Ministries, Accra
Ghana
URL :http://mswr.gov.gh/

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Preparing Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash) Sector Development Program for Ghana.

PREPARING WATER SUPPLY, SANITATION AND HYGIENE (WASH) SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR GHANA

Publication Date

21-Feb-2020

Expression of Interest Deadline

10-Mar-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Language of Notice

English

Selection Notice

Assignment Country

· GH - Ghana

Funding Sources

The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment/services under:

· BB - BANK BUDGET

· TF0B0255 - Ghana Water and Sanitation

Individual/Firm

The consultant will be a firm.

Assignment Description

Objective
The main objective of the assignment is to: Update and consolidate the Water Sector Strategic Development Plan, the National Environmental Sanitation Strategy and Action Plan and other relevant WASH plans and prepare a National WASH Program Document with indicative cost break down and implementation framework for i) rural WASH; ii) urban WASH; iii) institutional development, iv) M&E and v) funding.

It is expected that a WASH sector Institutional review will be conducted with considerable overlapping and its findings will inform the WASH program development. This will suggest that the program will have several phases with the first phase focusing on issues requiring immediate attention and the subsequent phases addressing the suggestions from the institutional review.


TERMS OF REFERENCE
FOR
PREPARING WATER SUPPLY, SANITATION AND HYGIENE (WASH) SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR
GHANA
















Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources
Government of Ghana
October 2019

I. Introduction
The Government of Ghana has been putting a lot of effort and resource to create an enabling environment and equitable access to improved sanitation and water services. National Water Policy, NWP – 2007; Environmental Sanitation Policy-2010; National Environmental Sanitation Strategy and Action Plan (NESSAP - 2010); Strategic Environmental Sanitation Investment Plan (SESIP- 2010); National Water Quality Monitoring Framework -2015; Water Sector Strategic Development Plan (WSSDP-2014) and several other instruments are in place. The vision of WSSDP was to provide “sustainable water and basic sanitation for all by 2025” and was developed with the aim of establishing the basis for a Sector Wide Approach (SWAp).

Since then several water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects have also been implemented in collaboration with development partners. Considerable improvements were registered in the sector through introduction of strategic approaches to challenges albeit sporadically and greater momentum gained in implementation capacity. However, providing universal access to safe sanitation and water supply services remains a challenge demanding for integrated and harmonized scaling up of the successful experiences.

Ghana is one of the countries that met the MDG target for increasing access to safe water supply while it lagged on sanitation. At the beginning of SDG in 2015, proportion of population using safely managed water supply was estimated at 26.9 percent while 50.9 percent were receiving basic services .

Cognizant of the afore-mentioned challenge, the GoG gave increased attention to sanitation and established the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) in 2017. This decision was also understood as an opportunity towards ensuring stronger alignment, efficiency and consolidation of various fragmented WASH interventions under a single lead institution.

In addition to rapid economic and population growth the country achieved in the past decades that resulted in high demand for water supply and sanitation, fragmented approach and capacity limitation to respond to the overwhelming requirements from the various uncoordinated projects has also contributed to the slower progress towards universal and equitable access to WASH services.

A consolidation of WASH investment projects into a single unifying National WASH Program may also be envisioned in the pursuit of efficient results. Based on international experiences, the burden and the expansion of WASH services can be greatly accelerated by taking advantage of natural synergies and efficiencies offered by moving from multiple projects of the same nature to a fully integrated and harmonized National Program. Such framework may also facilitate strong partnership between the Government, Development Partners, Civil Society Organizations, the MMDAs, NGOs and the Private sector recognizing that each of these partners has an essential part to play in successfully implementing WASH, improving performance and ensuring the sustainability of Program results.

The WSSDP and NESSAP were prepared prior to the end of the MDG era and since then, several changes have taken place and the sector has gone through substantial institutional reforms including the establishment of the MSWR in 2017. Priorities have been updated to address emerging issues related to climate change and SDGs. Ghana’s transition to a lower- middle income category and other changes requires consideration in sector planning. Moreover, the WSSDP implementation did not follow the intended Sector Wide Approach (SWAp). Now that the country is committed to new set of goals that still demand for integrated and coordinated implementation of sector plan, the opportunity is clear to update the WSSDP and NESSAP and prepare National WASH Program.

II. Objective
The main objective of the assignment is to: Update and consolidate the Water Sector Strategic Development Plan, the National Environmental Sanitation Strategy and Action Plan and other relevant WASH plans and prepare a National WASH Program Document with indicative cost break down and implementation framework for i) rural WASH; ii) urban WASH; iii) institutional development, iv) M&E and v) funding.

It is expected that a WASH sector Institutional review will be conducted with considerable overlapping and its findings will inform the WASH program development. This will suggest that the program will have several phases with the first phase focusing on issues requiring immediate attention and the subsequent phases addressing the suggestions from the institutional review.

III. Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities of the consultant includes but not limited to the following:
• Collect and review GoG’s WASH related Policy, strategies, regulations and program documents.
• Identify institutions and WASH related plans and program each institution is executing.
• Develop One WASH Integrated National Program Document. The Document shall provide adequate administration and management guide for all stakeholders on the actual establishment and implementation of financial, personnel and administrative management systems. It will also provide planning, monitoring and evaluation formats and guidelines.
• Review the status of implementation of Sector Information System (SIS) and how it can be implemented to improve the overall M&E in the WASH sector.
• Conduct consultative workshops with key stakeholders to ensure that the proposed document is well informed and acceptable to all.
• Ensure that crosscutting issues (climate change, vulnerability, gender) are fully addressed in the document and are incorporated and disaggregated into all documents prepared by the consultant.
• The consultant is also requested to incorporate lessons from all existing major WASH implementation projects in planning, budgeting, procurement, monitoring, etc. in order not to re-invent already well-practised systems and procedures but to select and improve the best available systems for the use in the National WASH Program.

IV. Organization of the assignment
• The Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate (EHSD) in close collaboration with the Policy-Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate (PPMED) and the Water Directorate in the MSWR will be the lead institution to oversee the assignment and give approvals to final program document for dissemination to stakeholders.
• A WASH Technical working group will also be formed to provide technical guidance and review interim and final reports.
• The EHSD in collaboration with the GAMA project PCU will finance and facilitate the consultation workshop.
• The World Bank will fund the study and contribute experts to provide input and review of interim and final outputs.

V. Consultant’s Supervision and Accountability:
• The assignment will be financed by World Bank and consultants will be selected following World Bank procurement procedure while their work is monitored and supervised by the MSWR.
• For communication and ease of management, the consultant team will be directly accountable to the EHSD in MSWR while the directorates of water and PPMED will be the technical counterpart for the consultant. All correspondence from the consultant shall be addressed to the EHSD with a copy to the World Bank task team.
• The WASH technical working group (Task Force) will be supporting the department technically and in reviewing reports from the consultancy and organizing feedbacks from development partners on interim and final outputs from the consultancy.

VI. Consultation
• The consultant team is expected to consult with all national and regional stakeholders and build consensus on the program design and content that will reflect each region’s specific situation.
• In addition to the interim consultative meetings/workshops, entry and exit consultative meetings must be conducted with the core WASH institutions to establish understanding of the assignment and verify findings. Proceedings and agreements from the consultative meetings should be endorsed by the WASH technical working group (task force) and will be attached to the final report

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