Project Background
1.China signed the Stockholm Convention on POPs in 2001 and the People’s Congress ratified the Convention in 2004. The National Implementation Plan (NIP) was completed in 2007. The proposed project will catalyze and expedite the phase-in of Best Available Techniques (BAT)/ Best Environmental Practices (BEP) in the MSW disposal sector that the NIP identified as a major source of PCDD/F release. The NIP identified MSW incineration as one of the key sources of PCDD/F release.
2.MSW management is a growing concern for China’s cities. With China’s rapid economic development, urbanization, and rising standards of living, the quantity of municipal solid wastes collected and transported has increased more than five-fold nationwide from about 31 million tons in 1980 to about 157 million tons in 2009 and is projected to reach 585 million tons in 2030. No country has ever experienced as large and rapid an increase in waste generation.
3.The role of incineration in MSW management has been increasing and will continue to increase due to a shortage of available land for landfills and the incinerators’ potential ability to generate heat or electricity (“waste to energy”). A series of incentive policies are in place to encourage investment in MSW incinerators, including value added tax refunding, prioritized commercial bank loans, state subsidy (2%) for loan interest, and favorable feed-in prices for the electricity sale into the grid. Consequently, the number of MSW incinerators is expected to rise from 66 in 2009 to 200 in 2015, increasing the incineration capacity from 55.4 thousand tons to 140 thousand tons per day over the same time period.
4.China has a long road ahead in adopting the modern MSW management hierarchy, which most favors prevention, followed by -- in order or preference -- minimization (reduction), reuse, recycling, energy recovery, and least favors disposal. In China, present MSW management generally focuses narrowly on the traditional pattern of collection and disposal. Household waste is not separated at the source. Recyclable material collection and recycling is generally pursued by the for-profit private sector, which focuses on paper products, metals, plastics, and glass. However, residential waste collected and transported by municipal sanitation units for disposal at incineration or landfills still contains a considerable proportion of plastic bags, packaging materials, kitchen waste, and some metals. The high moisture content of the waste delivered to incinerators inhibits the combustion process, while plastics lead to dioxin precursors, both causing PCDD/F generation and release.?
5.The project will implement selected NIP actions that should be completed by 2015 and fulfill the associated objectives. GEF supported activities will integrate PCDD/F reduction from MSW into China’s efforts to modernize its MSW management system, by strengthening the policy and regulatory framework and the institutional capacity, demonstrating BAT/BEP applications, preparing a replication strategy and raising public awareness, and monitoring and evaluation of project results.
6.The project’s development objective is to enhance the regulatory framework for compliance with new dioxin emissions standards for incineration facilities, demonstrate best available techniques (BAT) and best environmental practices (BEP) in MSW management to lower dioxins and furans emissions from such facilities, and establish favorable conditions for replicating project results more widely across China. As such, the Project would support China in meeting its obligations under the Stockholm Convention.
7.The Project Information File (PIF) was jointly prepared by FECO and World Bank, and approved by the GEF Secretariat with a Project Preparation Grant (PPG) for the preparation of a full-sized project. Project preparation started in November 2011, and is expected to extend to December 2012. Technical and policy specialist consultants in key aspects of MSW management, including 3R, disposal technologies, pre-treatment technologies, environmental monitoring, fly-ash (from MSW incinerators) treatment, industrial policies, and environmental regulations, will be recruited to provide technical support to project preparation. Furthermore, various stakeholders at the international, national and local levels will be consulted and mobilized to build agreements on the project design.
8.The expertise support for this project preparation work is a kind of integrated system, including 8 consultants to cover environmental impact assessment (EIA), social impact assessment (SIA), 3R programme implementation and BAT/BEP demonstration, MSW Treatment and pre-disposal Technology, MSW Disposal Technology, Environmental Monitoring, public relationship, and coordination. In this sense, the project coordinator is expected to coordinate various specialists and make contribution to high-quality delivery of the PPG outputs.
Objective of the Assignment
9.The objective of the assignment is to provide technical coordination services to contribute to timely and high-quality delivery of project preparation outputs.
Scope of this assignment
10.The scope of this assignment includes:
a)Support FECO to coordinating and communicating with ministries, local governments, pilot MSW incineration plants, and specialists on technical issues, and provide broad technical support to the effective management of the project preparation
b)Provide technical support to FECO to organize roundtables for technical discussion, and draft meeting minutes
c)Review experts draft reports against their TORs and provide comments, ensuring the acceptable quality of English translation, facilitate and strengthen multi-disciplinary linkages among various specialists on different subjects, and collect FECO’s comments on experts’ reports
d)Keep direct contact with the WB team for specific technical issues, and provide technical information at the request of WB
e)Keep track of experts’ deliverables and remind them for submission
f)Create database of literature for all team members to familiarize and update themselves with the baseline situation and project progress
g)Join the project preparation missions, and review and comment on aide memo from technical point of view
h)Draft TORs for new consultancies and other documents as requested by FECO
i)Help new experts to familiarize themselves with the project background and progress
j)Provide succinct weekly notes summarizing project progress and results to FECO management, highlighting technical issues
k)Facilitate the identification and analysis of new and emerging technical issues, as well as effective responses to address them
l)The coordinator will perform other tasks as assigned by the project management, and report to the project officer on a daily basis
Outputs/Deliverables
11.The outputs include, and all of these outputs should be in English:
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Output
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Delivery
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Reports under item b)
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Within 3 days after each meeting
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2
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Reports under item c)
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Within 1 week of the receipt of the experts’ reports
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3
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Reports under item d)
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Within 3 days of the receipt of the WB’s request
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4
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Reports under item g)
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Within 1 week of the receipt of the aide memo
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5
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Reports under item h)
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Within 3 days of the receipt of the FECO’s request
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6
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Reports under item j)
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Within 3 days of the next week
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7
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Reports under k) and l)
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To be determined
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8
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Database of literature under item f)
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Within 2 weeks of receipt of comments
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Qualifications
12.The project coordinator should have
a)advanced university degree in relevant environmental or social science;
b)at least 5 years of professional working experience in development projects’ coordination/management with international organizations;
c)at least 3 years of professional experience in the field of dioxins reduction and control in China;
d)excellent communications and networking skills and the ability to work as a team member;
e)strong interpersonal and consensus building skills;
f)excellent command of written and spoken English and Chinese;
g)literacy in Windows-based computer applications
Procedures
13.A Consultant will be selected based on the Selection of Individual Consultants (IC) modality in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (current edition).
14.FECO now invite eligible experts to provide the interests in Municipal Solid Waste BAT/BEP Specialist (CS-8 Technical Coordination Consult) under Municipal Solid Waste Management Project-Project Preparation Grant. The experts with interests shall provide expression letter of interest and CV. Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below or by e-mail during office hours from 09:00 to 17:00.
Deadline
15.Further information can be obtained at the address below or by e-mail during office hours from 09:00 to 17:00.
Ren Yong(Mr.)
Tel: 86-10-82268953
Fax: 86-10-82200527
Add: No 5, Houyingfang Hutong, Beijing, China, 100035
E-mail: ren.yong@mepfeco.org.cn
16.CV must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by 17:00 (Beijing time), June 8th, 2013.
Yan wei (Ms.)
Tel: 86-10-82268844
Fax: 86-10-82200510
Add: No 5, Houyingfang Hutong, Beijing, China, 100035
E-mail: yan.wei@mepfeco.org.cn
