FONDS BLEU POUR LE BASSIN DU CONGO has floated a tender for Selection of a Development Bank Responsible for Opening and Managing a “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” Financing Line. The project location is Congo and the tender is closing on 04 Jan 2021. The tender notice number is , while the TOT Ref Number is 46752422. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

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Country : Congo

Summary : Selection of a Development Bank Responsible for Opening and Managing a “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” Financing Line

Deadline : 04 Jan 2021

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 46752422

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Agence Francaise De Development (AFD)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : FONDS BLEU POUR LE BASSIN DU CONGO
Congo
Congo
Email :contact@ccbc-cbcc.org / secretariatministre@ministere-tourisme.gouv.cg
URL :http://www.ccbc-ccbc.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Selection of a Development Bank Responsible for Opening and Managing a “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” Financing Line.

Selection of a Development Bank

Opening and management of a “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” financing line

October 15, 2020 at 4:12 p.m. - Updated October 19, 2020 10:32 a.m.

The Congo Basin Climate Commission (CCBC) is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI) for the selection of a Development Bank responsible for opening and managing a line of financing "Blue Fund for the Congo Basin ”.

Complete files for expressions of interest should be sent to the following address:
contact@ccbc-cbcc.org no later than January 04, 2021 at 3 p.m., Brazzaville time.

Candidates selected after the preselection phase will be informed by email / phone.

The CCBC reserves the right not to respond to this call for expressions of interest without prejudice.

Applicants can access the information referred to in the call for expressions of interest, by contacting the Secretariat of the
Congo Basin Climate Commission at the following e-mail address: contact@ccbc-cbcc.org all working days from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Email: secretariatministre@ministere-tourisme.gouv.cg
CCBC website: http://www.ccbc-ccbc.org

Notice of Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI)
For the selection of a Development Bank responsible for opening and managing a “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” financing line


List of Abbreviations
AFD Agence Française de Développement
AMI Notice of Call for Expressions of Interest
BDD Development Bank
CAHOSCC Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change
CCBC Congo Basin Climate Commission
CDN National Determined Contributions
COP Conference of the Parties
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
FMP Entrepreneurial Development Bank
FVC Green Climate
Fund F2BC Blue Fund for the Congo Basin
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
UNDP United Nations Development Program
REDD + Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
USAID United States Agency for International Development
4C Maroc Center de Compétences Climate Change of Morocco

1. CONTEXT OF THE CONSULTATION
In 2015, the international community adopted the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, together with 17 universal, inseparable and ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to effectively fight poverty, protect the planet and ensure inclusive global growth.

The same year, the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so as to limit the rise in the global temperature of the earth to 2 ° C or even 1.5 ° C d `by the end of the century.

To operationalize these acts, it was created on November 16, 2016 in Marrakech by the African Heads of State and Government, meeting on the sidelines of COP22 on the initiative of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, on the occasion of the Action Summit, through the Marrakech Declaration, the Congo Basin Commission in addition to two (02) other commissions, one for the Sahel region and the other for the island states.

The Congo Basin Commission, under the chairmanship of His Excellency Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, is responsible for coordinating and monitoring all actions and initiatives aimed at reconciling the fight against climate change and economic development with a view to achieving inclusive growth: the diversification of the economy, the development of businesses and the improvement of the living conditions of the populations in the 16 member states: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Republic of Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, South Sudan, Tanzania, Chad and Zambia.

Also launched by President Denis SASSOU NGUESSO on the occasion of the COP22, the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin (referred to in the text as “Blue Fund”) became a reality on March 9, 2017 by the signing by ten (10) countries of the Memorandum of Understanding creating it. The Blue Fund is therefore in line with the main conclusions of the first global conference for a sustainable blue economy held in Nairobi, Kenya from November 26 to 28, 2018.

During the Conference of Ministers of Central and East Africa on the acceleration of the operationalization of the Congo Basin Climate Commission and the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin (Brazza Finance Climat 2017 ) which took place from 3 to 5 October 2017 in Brazzaville, Congo, three (03) main documents were adopted, in particular (i) the Brazzaville Declaration, one of the flagship recommendations of which was that the “Commission du Congo Basin ”becomes“ Congo Basin Climate Commission ”(CCBC); (ii) the roadmap for the operationalization of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin; and (iii) the identification sheet for the 24 sector programs, presented in Annex 1, to be financed by the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin.

These decisions of the Ministers were ratified by the Heads of State and Government of the countries of Central Africa and East Africa and by the King of Morocco, gathered at their 1st Summit on the acceleration of the operationalization of the Congo Basin Climate Commission and the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin, which took place from April 27 to 29, 2018 in Brazzaville, Congo, and which resulted in the signature on April 29, 2018, of the Protocol establishing the Congo Basin Climate Commission.

The Blue Fund for the Congo Basin, designated therefore as one of the main financial tools of the CCBC, aims to mobilize the necessary resources from contributors and investors, in order to finance the implementation of programs and projects contributing to sustainable development and the promotion of the blue economy in its field of intervention.

The development of a partner mobilization strategy for the implementation of the investment plan of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin and of the portfolio of priority sectoral programs already identified to be financed being necessary, a preliminary study s t has proven to be essential for the establishment of a political, financial and technical governance tool for the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin.

As part of the Kingdom of Morocco`s support to the Congo Basin Climate Commission, and in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding of March 12, 2018, this foreshadowing study of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin was financed by the Center 4C Morocco on a donation from German cooperation; with UNDP Morocco as the executing agency, the project management being provided by the Congo Basin Climate Commission, with 4C Morocco as delegated contracting authority and the project manager being the Consortium EY - Innpact.

The preliminary study made it possible to constitute an initial pipeline of 250 projects covering the 24 sectoral programs of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin and the National Determined Contributions (CDN) of the 16 countries for a total valuation of US $ 8.75 billion. The main elements relating to the project pipeline were the subject of a presentation during the meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) on February 8, 2020 in Addis Ababa (Annex 2 ). This study also guides the Congo Basin Climate Commission to the creation of a financial mechanism dedicated to the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin and to host it within a Development Bank. Finally, presentations of the Blue Fund were made in front of key technical and financial partners during a meeting in Brazzaville and during the COP 25 in Madrid as part of a side event under the very high patronage of His Excellency Mr. Denis SASSOU NGUESSO, President of the Republic of Congo, President of the Congo Basin Climate Commission. A presentation will also be made during the donors` conference to be held following the closure of the foreshadowing study of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin. These interventions are explained in Annex 3. A presentation will also be made during the donors` conference to be held following the closure of the foreshadowing study of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin. These interventions are explained in Annex 3. A presentation will also be made during the donors` conference to be held following the closure of the foreshadowing study of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin. These interventions are explained in Annex 3.

2. OBJECTIVE OF THE FRIEND
The objective of this Call for Expressions of Interest is to select a Development Bank responsible for hosting the “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” financing line.
In general it will be

· Host and Administer the Fund;

· Operationalize the “Blue Fund for the Congo Basin” financial mechanism;

· Contribute to the implementation of the Blue Fund`s financing mobilization strategy;

· Contract with national and international donors (lenders and donors) in order to supplement the funding resources;

· Manage the pipeline of projects on the one hand by monitoring and improving their maturity and on the other hand by identifying new projects;

· Conduct and / or finalize if necessary the technical studies intended to analyze the bankability and the socio-economic, environmental & climatic impacts (due diligence);

· Via the intervention methods of the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin, finance projects, included in their preparation phase through feasibility studies;

· Manage / regulate relations with the private sector as part of their participation in the financing of projects. The bank will solicit these private investors not at the level of mobilization of funds, but at the level of each project as co-financing. In other words, public and institutional investors will be asked to supplement the line of financing;

· Manage the financial mechan

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