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Tender description :
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Tenders Are Invited for 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 Angola, 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 Angola, 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 – ANGOLA “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 Angola has received a Grant from the African Development
Bank (AfDB) 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. 5550155002311; Project ID P-Z1-K00-145; Grant amount USD 1,749,104 (GEF).
2. The AFLDC-2 project seeks to strengthen the capacities of the eleven participating African
countries, including Angola, 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 Angola, 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.
3. 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;
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