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Consultant: International Expert on POPs ( Persistant Organic Pollutants)

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Location Nigeria - Africa
Type Temporary / Contract / Seasonal
Status Full Time
Level Senior Level
Deadline 18/09/2009
Company Name United Nations Development Program
Contact Name Human Resources
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Description

According to conservative POPs NIP estimates, UPOPs releases in Nigeria total approximately 5,400 g I-TEQ annually, with the bulk of these emissions originating from uncontrolled burning of mainly municipal waste, as well as from agricultural land clearing practices.

With a population of 140 million, Nigeria generates annually about 20 million tons of municipal waste. The POPs NIP estimates that 20 % of this waste is uncontrollably burned at dump sites, to either recuperate valuable waste streams, such as metal, and to compact the volume of the waste, resulting in UPOPs releases totaling 5,300 g I-TEQ/a.

The Federal Government of Nigeria is determined to take swift and concerted action to tackle waste management issues in major population centers and has demonstrated this by granting seven major cities with US$ 2 million each to implement their Integrated Waste Management Strategies (IWMS).

Half of collected municipal waste is thought to be organic, and non-incineration alternatives to uncontrolled burning practices, such as the introduction of organic composting at community level and demonstration of BAT/BEP approaches, could result in a significant reduction of dioxin emissions if replicated nationwide.

The proposed FSP activities, conducted within the framework of the IWMS, will assist Nigeria's Waste Management Initiative by:

  • Providing planning and policy advice with respect to waste management and reduction of UPOPs releases
  • Providing technical assistance focusing on UPOPs reduction practices and technologies (BAT/BEP) as an integral component of the IWMS and their implementation
  • Measures to help lower barriers for introducing non-burning waste management practices for household waste
  • Introducing sustainable community level organic waste composting practices by creating products and markets for ready compost, building upon UNDP supported efforts in Lagos.

The immediate release reduction of UPOPs is difficult to estimate. However if, as a result of the FSP activities and their integration in the implementation of IWMS, non-burning practices for house hold waste management are replicated nationwide, municipal waste burning could be reduced by 20%, resulting in a 1060 g I-TEQ reduction of PCDD/Fs yearly.

In addition, FSP activities will focus on uncontrolled agricultural land burning (“bush firing”), which is a common agricultural practice in Nigeria leading to local air pollution from particle emissions as well as UPOPs releases. The POPs NIP estimates that UPOPs releases from bush firing total some 153 g I-TEQ/a. Worryingly, much of the released UPOPs settle on the burned land are taken up in the food chain through new crops and grazing animals.

As a part of the project, agricultural practices avoiding uncontrolled burning will be introduced in one state. While it is challenging to estimate the scale of land degradation mitigated and the amount of UPOPs emissions avoided, the main objective of this component will be to demonstrate best alternative practices and create a cost recovery base for the adopted BAT/BEP conforming practices based on mechanical clearing and further use/processing of cleared biomass. The direct project activities could reduce the overall emissions from this category with some 20 g I-TEQ/g, with successful nation-wide replication possibly resulting in a 100 g I-TEQ reduction annually.

In addition to the sizeable direct avoidance of UPOPs emissions, the project’s global benefits will be able to demonstrate how BAT/BEP approaches for uncontrolled burning can put into practice in sub-Saharan African context.

Throughout the preparatory phase following activities are expected:

  • Additional baseline information on current UPOPs releases origination from waste burning and land clearing practices will need to be collected;
  • Project stakeholders, their capacities and responsibilities will be identified;
  • An evaluation of national institutional, technical and managerial capacity for project implementation and monitoring will be analyzed and subsequently FSP implementation arrangements with the Nigeria Government will be decided upon;
  • Liaise with municipalities receiving grants under the IWMS on their plans of using the grants and how UPOPs considerations can be taken into consideration.
  • To help create an enabling environment at the national and community level for sound management of household waste as well as alternative non-burning land clearing practices, potential public awareness campaigns, target audiences and information channels will be identified;
  • Finally, the collected information will be integrated into a FSP template and will be prepared for GEF submission.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of the assignment

The principal responsibility of the International Consultant is in addition of providing technical expertise on project components aiming at reduction of UPOPs from municipal waste processes is to  develop the Full Size Project in standard GEF and UNDP templates (UNDP Project Document and GEF CEO Endorsement Request). Under the overall guidance of UNDP-Abuja and UNDP-MPU and in coordination with the national consultants, the International Consultant is expected to work together with the key stakeholders involved in the relevant sector in Nigeria in developing the Full Size Project.
 

Scope of work

The International Consultant will have the following specific duties:

  • Prepare very clear guidelines on the type of information required from the national counterparts to assist in the project development;
  • Visit 3 municipalities with IWMS grants for exploring optimal cities and areas of cooperation for introducing of UPOPs minimizing activities.
  • Facilitate a two day stakeholder workshop in Nigeria on threat/root cause/barrier analysis and logframe, based on which the project interventions will be designed. The logframe exercise will also identify the indicators for which baseline values should be collected during the preparation stage;
  • Brief national partners on the project development process and help planning the preparatory phase (information gathering and project planning);
  • Review and comment on the final products of substantive reports commissioned under the preparation stage;
  • Prepare the relevant description for the Project Document – threats analysis matrix and narrative and logframe with clear indicators for the objective and outcome level, including the baseline and target values for the indicators;
  • Based on information provided by national experts, analyze the enabling environment for Waste Management and Agricultural Land Burning in Nigeria: regulatory and management frameworks; institutional arrangements; public participation;
  • Based on inputs from the national team, undertake an incremental cost analysis;
  • Prepare a strategy and action plan on how the project results can be replicated;
  • Assess the capacity building needs for the implementation of the proposed project interventions;
  • Assist in the development of financial sustainability plan and risks assessment;
  • Prepare a cost-effectiveness analysis for the full project;
  • Assist the project in the development of co-funding matrix for the full project;
  • Assist in the preparation of the monitoring and evaluation framework and plan;
  • Develop in collaboration with national consultants and UNDP CO the CEO endorsement and the UNDP Project Document to be submitted to the GEF;
  • Address all the comments from UNDP/GEF RTA, peer review, PTA; STAP, other IAs, Stockholm Convention Secretariat, GEF Sec, and Council members.

Main Outputs

  1. CEO Endorsement request
  2. UNDP Project Document

Milestones

The following are the milestones for the project:

30 September 2009 – Project strategy is ready for RTA and UNDP CO review

31 October 2009 – Log-frame exercise to discuss and have stakeholders consent on the project strategy: objective, outcomes, outputs, indicators and indicative financial figures; and specify roles of stakeholders 

30 November 2009 – CEO Endorsement and Project Document to be sent to UNDP/GEF NY PTA for comments.

18 December 2009 – full package for submission addressing the PTA comments—following the requirements at the moment of submission.

January-March 2010 – Respond to comments from GEF Secretariat, STAP and IAs on the CEO endorsement package.

 

Competencies

  • Excellent communication and information technology skills;
  • Proficiency in the English language. 

 

Required Skills and Experience

  • Advanced degree (Masters or above) in chemistry, chemical engineering or similar discipline;
  • Solid awareness of the Stockholm Convention and its requirements
  • Significant Experience in Waste Management Practices
  • Knowledge of UNDP and GEF policies and procedures, particularly in the POPs focal area;
  • Experience with UNDP-GEF project preparation;
  • Excellent communication and information technology skills;
  • Proficiency in the English language. 
  • Developing Country experience, preferably in Africa
  • Minimum ten (10) years of progressive experience in related field.
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