Background

Cambodia is one of the fastest growing economies with rapid population growth in Asia.  The Gross National Income (GNI) per capita rose from US$300 in 2000 to US$1,140 in 2016 (World Bank). The population increased from 6.9 million in 1980 to 16 million in 2018.

 

With growing population and economic activities, Cambodia now faces the new challenge of the mounting volume of waste. Between 2004 in 2017, solid waste disposal in municipal landfills has drastically increased from 318,000 tons to 1.5 million ton per annum (MoE, 2018). According to the recent UNDP study in 2018, this situation is particularly alarming in major cities, such as Phnom Penh, which produces 2,300 tons of waste on a daily basis. It is notable that more than 90 % of all waste consists of recyclable materials (e.g. organic 55 %, plastic 21 % and textile 13%) (ibid) yet a very minimal amount has been recycled under current waste management practices.  

 

To tackle this waste problem, a new project, “building an enabling environment for sustainable development in Cambodia” was launched in January, 2019 with funding support from Sweden with the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD) as an implementing partner.

 

Among other objectives, this project promotes circular economy options such as 3Rs: Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle for waste management. 

 

UNDP is seeking a National Expert on Solid Waste Management to support UNDP Cambodia, the NCSD and the National Committee of Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDD-S) to identify and promote circular economy solutions for waste challenges in Cambodia.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Environmental Policy Specialist, the national consultant will be responsible for providing high quality technical inputs for the following areas of works, based on an in-depth understanding of local and national contexts of solid waste management:

  • Background analyses, identification and piloting of priority circular economy options for municipal waste management

  • Background analyses, identification and piloting of priority circular economy options for industrial waste

  • Knowledge management and recommendations for enabling policy measures for a circular economy in Cambodia;

 

1) Background analyses, identification and piloting of priority circular economy options for municipal waste management:

  • Analysis of background information related to municipal waste management situations at selected targeted sites such as Kep in Cambodia. This includes analyses of barriers faced by the local population, government and private sector actors, drawing on interviews and field visits;

  • Identification of feasible options to address the barriers, and promote circular economy options in the selected sites in Cambodia where UNDP, and government partners can add value;

  • Identification of potential partners for implementation, including potential solution/service providers;

  • Organization of validation meetings with local stakeholders;

  • Provision of technical support for priority circular economy measures

 

2) Background analyses, identification and piloting of priority circular economy options for industrial waste: This includes

  • Feasibility assessments and development of business and investment proposals for circular economy measures;

  • Provision of technical support for piloting identified priority business models;

  • Provision of technical inputs to refine business models based on lessons learned from piloting for replication and scaling up of turning waste to energy in the industrial sector;

  • Review and formulation of policy recommendations for circular economy options for industrial waste in terms of turning waste to energy, environmental impact monitoring, etc.;

  • Identification of value-added by products of turning organic waste to resources through engaging with key partners;

  • Support to the project team to review incubator challengers in providing business innovative solutions to tackle waste management in Cambodia.

 

3) Knowledge management and documentation of lessons learned:

  • Documentation of key lessons/insights from engaging with various stakeholders;

  • Refining strategies and approaches for working with local partners, including approaching for identifying key policies, including ant-plastic campaigns with key academic institutions, government departments and other stakeholders;

Important Notice: Interested offeror must  read  the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=54372 for more  detail information about term  of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

  • Strong research background in analytical skills in waste management, circular economy and communication skills

  • Flexibility and ability to operate in different cultural settings and with a variety of stakeholders; culturally and gender sensitive.

Corporate Competencies:

  • Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism;

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Master’s degree, or equivalent, in waste management or other related field ( PhD in a relevant field is a plus).

Experience:

  • At least 5 years of experience with conducting research on industrial and municipal waste, provision of technical support for waste management, and waste related infrastructure design. Prior experience in implementing 3Rs: Reuse, Reduce and Recycle or other forms of circular economy policy development is a plus

Language Requirement:

  • English and Khmer are required

Important Notice: Interested offeror must  read  the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=54372 for more  detail information about term  of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

 

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

 

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

 

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on­line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e­mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

 

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