Study of the Economics of Water Conservation Tender in USA - 56879457

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Country: USA

Summary: Study of the Economics of Water Conservation

Deadline: 13 Sep 2021

Posting Date: 01 Sep 2021

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 56879457

Document Ref. No.: HQ229

Competition: ICB

Financier: Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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79311400 - Economic research services
79311410 - Economic impact assessment

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Tenders are invited for Study of the Economics of Water Conservation under the Jordan Water Innovation Technologies Program.
Brief Summary
Description of Project: A study of the costs, benefits, and incentives experienced by public (USAID and Mercy Corps) and private actors (suppliers, farmers and households) in incentivizing and implementing the range of water conservation activities completed through the Jordan Water Innovation Technologies program.
The Water Innovation Technologies Program is a USAID-funded $32 million program carried out by Mercy Corps in Jordan. The goal of the five-year program is to save 18.5 million cubic meters of water. WIT has worked with market actors (equipment suppliers, financial intermediaries, etc.) and water users (households and famers) to improve the efficiency of markets for water saving technologies (WST) through market systems strengthening activities, incentive packages to equipment suppliers, loan programs for households, media campaigns, and other interventions. In addition, WIT has sponsored a number of communal water harvesting and storage infrastructure projects, adding to the number of such projects that the MC Jordan engineering team has designed and implemented over the last fifteen years. With achievement of its MEL indicators on target for the completion of the program in March 2022, WIT is seeking to learn lessons about the costs, benefits and incentives of the program and its various activities. In particular, the project represents USAID and Mercy Corps- first effort to apply Market Systems Development approaches to the challenges of water conservation. Throughout the project, WIT has carried out a series of research and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) activities, with various partners, including its primary research partner, the International Water Management Institute.
Purpose / Project Description:

The purpose of the study is to assess the costs, benefits and incentives experienced by public (USAID and Mercy Corps) and private actors (suppliers, farmers and households) in incentivizing and implementing the range of water conservation activities completed through the WIT program. The study will provide important information on the costs and benefits of water conservation in the Jordanian context, as efforts to improve water productivity in the country continue. The study will also examine the incentives for adoption of water savings technologies (WST) faced by different actors, thereby informing similar programs in other contexts and complementing other ongoing evaluation efforts under the WIT program. The contractor will have access to the relevant suite of data, information and studies carried out by Mercy Corps in the conduct of the WIT program, including baseline and endline studies of knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP), monitoring of water saved under the Program, etc. The purpose of this study to draw all this information together in one place, analyze it using the tools of economic analysis and report out to the global community on the lessons learned, in this respect, through this innovative project.

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