📋 Tender Overview
Project Number
605968
Primary Business Area
Infrastructure
Disclosure Date
Jan 23, 2025
Country
Cote D'Ivoire
Region
Africa
IFC Approval Date
May 13, 2024
Status
Active
Estimated Total Budget
$609,833.00
(Project budget includes all project-funded activities)
Last Updated Date
Project Estimated Start Date
Jun 3, 2024
Project Estimated End Date
Jun 30, 2026
Project Description
The Project aims to initiate a culture of plastic waste management and create livelihood opportunities, particularly for women, within Vridi village and surrounding communities. It focuses on raising awareness, building capacity, and supporting small-scale recycling businesses to effectively manage plastic waste and promote sustainable practices. It has the three components, with the following activities: Component I: Awareness and Improved and gender-inclusive Practices on Plastic Waste Management and Environmental Preservation: (i) Consultative Engagement among the community members, using participatory tools and methodology to assess (i) livelihood conditions of the targeted people and (ii) knowledge on plastic waste management and preservation of environment; (ii) Awareness and sensitization strategy, tools and campaigns: for the participants to collectively identify innovative solutions for addressing the social, economic, and environmental problems caused by plastic waste and pollution; (iii) In-depth capacity building and training for two hundred (200) green champions within Vridi community leaders, schools students and teachers and supporting them through guidance and coaching; (iii) Installation of plastic collection boxes within the 5 selected schools as part of the implementation of their environmental cleanliness plans; (iv) Support for the development of Environmental cleanliness and plastic waste management plans in the 5 selected schools to guide their efforts in keeping their community free of waste pollution; and (v) Development of the relevant tools for regular monitoring and evaluation as well processes for adjusting implementation outcomes and taking corrective measures. Component II: Improved sustainable and gender-inclusive business practices for individual Local Waste Collectors: Through this component, the following activities will be undertaken: (i) Training needs assessment of local waste collectors, to identify required capacity building and training needs; (ii) Capacity building and plan and training workshops on financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and waste collection and recycling techniques and supply chains opportunities; (iii) Development, adoption and implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools to measure collection, transportation, and recycling of plastic waste at the individual levels using digital tools to monitor daily operations; and (v) Follow-on performance assessment, to identify lingering gaps and corrective measures, using participatory methodologies. Component III: Improved sustainable and gender-i
