Background

• Weak revenue collection capacities and lack of a financial strategy
• Limited capacity to plan, deliver and monitor services;
• Insufficient public awareness SWM
• No functioning community-wide collection of garbage and non-sustainable, cost-effective modality to: store, transport, separate, treat, process, recycle and dispose solid waste.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Development of Waste Management Plan;
• Assessment report of PPP opportunities.

• Stakeholder analysis and initial stakeholder meetings and awareness raising in relation to the waste characterization and assessments.
• Waste characterisation (volumes, composition, trends, etc.) by “ward”/ type of neighbourhood resulting in recommendations on improved ward zoning and differentiated approaches to waste reduction, collection, recycling, etc.
• Review of current (best) practices (formal and informal) in Makeni City as well as other cities in Sierra Leone, as well as an extensive review of results from previous projects and their lessons-learned, to assess opportunities for replication or scale up and adequately address challenges and hurdles encountered throughout the past interventions.
• Assessment of current financial flows in solid waste management in Makeni City, costs of solid waste management (including a consultative review of tariffs for SWM and assessment of feasible payment methods), potential cost savings and revenue opportunities from ISWM.
• Technical assessment of basic infrastructure and equipment needs, focussing on minimal improvements necessary at the landfill site to allow for the successful implementation of the project and the production of waste derived products; determining the needs and costs for locally low-cost waste collection equipment and gear/equipment critical to launch/boost waste-derived product processing (personal protection gear, tricycles, etc.).
• Review of current and potential market demand for waste derived products (e.g. compost, bio-char briquettes, biogas, recycling of plastics products, tree seedling packages, etc.), and propositions for interventions and activities to stimulate demand/increase the market.
• Determine the degree of domestic waste separation required to achieve optimum economic results and in combination with an assessment of customer perceptions and willingness/barriers for domestic waste separation process interventions and incentives for waste separation at domestic/community/landfill level.
• Appraisal of private sector, CBOs and potential investors’ capacities/activities, interests/intentions, barriers and opportunities for their increased involvement in SWM (including their access to micro-finance, loans and subsidies to purchase or lease equipment) including recommendations for their capacity building and facilitating access to financing (e.g. as part of on-going UNDP/DFID supported micro-finance schemes).

Appraisal of the current PPP enabling policy/legislative/regulatory environment and Makeni CC’s capacity building as well as policy/regulatory gaps that remain to be addressed

Competencies

• Demonstrate integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Display cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Build strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Demonstrate good oral and written skills;
• Demonstrate openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
  

Required Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in a subject directly related to solid waste management or governance.

• 4 years experience on solid waste stream assessment in a similar geographic location.
• A proven track record in designing of Waste management Plans (WMP) for the inception/implementation of sustainable solid waste management projects/programmes.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.

• 1^st Instalment: 20% upon arrival at duty station
• 2^nd Instalment: 30% upon submission of the draft report/document to the UNDP
• 3^rd Instalment: 50% upon submission and approval of the final document.

• Background and Education: 10%
• Methodology of approachin accomplishing the consultancy including though not limited to (a) timelines, (b) data collection and sources, (c) strategies addressing possible risks and barriers and management responses: 40% 
• Professional Experience with respect to TOR: (a) Demonstrated experience in solid waste management and PPP structure (b) A good understanding of the processes of mainstreaming solid waste management into PRSPs; (c) Strong analytical skills, particularly applied to policy development:40%
• Substantial professional knowledge and experience in Sierra Leone and / or in similar geographic conditions: 10%

Application Procedure:

• Brief letter of proposal on how the candidate/firm wishes to conduct the assignment.
• Completed UNDP Personal History Form (P11).
• Detailed achievement based CV.