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GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE Scaling-up Investment and Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in African Ldcs
the Afldc-2 Project Seeks to Strengthen the Capacities of the Eleven Participating African Countries, Including Zambia, to Eliminate, Reduce and Control Persistent Organic Pollutants (pops) and Mercury Pollution Sources Using Best Available Technologies / Best Environmental Practices (bat/bep). the Key Activities of the Project Are Aligned with the Countrys Commitments Under the Stockholm and Minamata Conventions. the Project Will Support the Development of Public-private Engagement and Partnership, Specifically Adapted to the Circumstances of Zambia, to Enable the Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste While Generating Commercial and Financial Benefits. the Project is Considered Essential to Progressing the Achievement of the Governments Commitments Under the Chemical Conventions.
GPN – ZAMBIA “Multinational: Scaling-Up Investment and Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity
Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Stockholm and Minamata
Conventions in African LDCs (AFLDC-2)”
1. The Government of the Republic of Zambia has received a Grant from the African Development
Bank (ADB) and the African Development Fund, as executing agencies of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), to finance its participation in the multinational project “Scaling-Up Investment and
Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the
Implementation of the Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in African LDCs (AFLDC-2)” – Grant
No. 5550155002310; Project ID P-Z1-K00-154; Grant amount USD 1,838,725 (GEF).
2. The AFLDC-2 project seeks to strengthen the capacities of the eleven participating African
countries, including Zambia, to eliminate, reduce and control persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
and mercury pollution sources using Best Available Technologies / Best Environmental Practices
(BAT/BEP). The key activities of the project are aligned with the country's commitments under the
Stockholm and Minamata Conventions. The project will support the development of public-private
engagement and partnership, specifically adapted to the circumstances of Zambia, to enable the
environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste while generating commercial and
financial benefits. The project is considered essential to progressing the achievement of the
Government's commitments under the chemical conventions.
The AFLDC-2 project has four components:
• Component 1: Strengthening the enabling environment and national enforcement capacities
for the management and phase-out of POPs, mercury and its compounds;
• Component 2: Communicating the environmentally sound management of chemicals and
wastes;
• Component 3: Actions to reduce and, wherever possible, eliminate the manufacture, trade,
use, emission and release of POPs, mercury and its compounds;
• Component 4: Monitoring and evaluation, learning and adaptive feedback.
4. The procurement activities under the project, as detailed in the National Procurement Plan (NPP)
2026–2029 for Zambia, comprise: consultancy services (consulting firms recruited by international
competitive selection for the enabling-environment, communication and environmental and social
impact assessment flagship packages; national experts and individual consultants selected under
CQS and ICS; an external audit firm selected under least-cost selection where applicable); goods
and non-consulting services (office equipment, workshop venue and facilitation services, media
services, procured mainly through Shopping); and works (national open competitive bidding for
storage and investment-related interventions, where applicable).
In addition to the nationally executed packages, the project includes regional activities financed
from the regional envelope of USD 783,474 for Zambia under the NPP, which are procured and
administered directly by the AfDB on behalf of the participating countries. These comprise, as
applicable per the NPP: regional workshops held back-to-back with the meetings of the Regional
Project Steering Committee; a regional industry conference; a regional plastics' circular-economy
forum, fair and conference; project representation at meetings of Regional Cooperation Bodies;
international POPs and mercury convention experts supporting the legislative gap analyses,
enforcement guidance and training; pooled regional expert inputs to the capacity-building of
public officials, communication, curriculum adaptation and awareness-raising; regional collection
and destruction service providers for POPs pesticides and PCBs, and regional export and treatment
services for mercury-added products and mercury waste; international expert inputs to the
assessment, design and technical follow-up of the investment interventions; regional monitoring
and evaluation activities (project knowledge hub and website, mid-term review, terminal
evaluation and gender oversight); and the AfDB execution share of project management costs.
Specific procurement notices for these regionally administered activities will be issued by the
Bank.
6. The procurement of goods, works and the acquisition of consulting services financed by the Bank
for the project will be carried out in accordance with the Procurement Framework for Bank Group
Funded Operations, dated October 2015, available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org,
and in line with the provisions stated in the Grant Agreement. Prior review applies to the flagship
international competitive selections, major works and the external audit; other packages follow
post review, as reflected in the NPP.
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