📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P175659
Region: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC
Commitment Amount: Us$ 20.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 20.00 million
The regional program for marine plastics is designed as a Series of Projects and structured in two Pillars. The IDA regional grant project with the ASEAN constitutes Pillar 1 and is the first project in the series ---to strengthen the institutional capacity, support harmonization of standards and guidelines, and finance pilot innovative solutions across the ASEAN region. The program has overarching objectives across the ASEAN region and is designed to achieve transboundary benefits through strengthening institutions, harmonizing policies and standards, and catalyzing public and private sector actions to reduce single-use plastics, increase plastics recycling and address plastics pollution at the regional and national level across the ASEAN region. The regional integration element is based on the recognition of the plastics pollutionpathways through key transboundary rivers and coastal systems across in Southeast Asia. The IDA regional grant project (the first project in the series, Pillar 1) will focus on actions relating to capacity building, technical assistance, as well as efforts to harmonize standards, guidelines, waste trade, and recycling markets at the ASEAN regional level. It is expected to comprise of 3 components:Component 1. Support Institutions and Strengthen Policies for Plastics Circularity This component is intended to support policy harmonization which is imperative to coordinate efforts and tackle transboundary marine plastic issues. It is also closely aligned with the regional actions being identified underthe ASEAN Regional Action Plan and will help to build the capacity of regional and national institutions in developing and implementing relevant policies and investments. Subcomponent 1.1 Support Regional Policy Development, Harmonization, and ImplementationThis includes support for strengthening regulations policies, and standards and identifying potential for incentive and fiscal mechanisms (taxes or bans on certain types of plastics, recycled content standards etc.) to help correct market inefficiencies, overcome poor incentives for the private sector to recycle plastics or to explore alternatives, and facilitate investments which provide solutions. Several key regional actions were prioritized by the AMS under the (upcoming) ASEAN Regional Action Plan. Some of these would be support through this sub-component, including:oSupport regional policy harmonization, including discussions across ASEAN member states to align upstream plastics-related policies (such as regulations on single-use plastics) and economic instruments (such as taxes on plastic bags) and regulatory consistency where appropriate (e.g., recycled plastic for food-contact applications).oDevelop
