Zambezi Watercourse Commission
Country: Zimbabwe, with project scope encompassing eight Zambezi River Basin Countries
Assignment Title: Various
Reference No.: ZAMCOM/VAR/2015
The Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) will from time to time require the services of consultants (individuals and firms) to support its planned activities in its quest to promote the cooperative management and development of the Zambezi River Basin in a sustainable manner.
The Zambezi Watercourse Commission now invites eligible individual consultants and firms to indicate their interest in providing services. Interested firms should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services. Interested individual consultants should have a minimum of a Master’s degree in the relevant discipline; hold professional qualifications and have at least 15 years of post-qualification experience. Relevant experience in Southern Africa is essential.
The areas of expertise required are as follows:
Individual Experts/Consultants:
- Senior Hydrologists with experience in Southern Africa and the Zambezi River Basin in particular
- Senior Environmental Engineers/Scientists
- Senior River Basin Planning and Development Specialists
- Senior Socio-economists with experience in Southern Africa
- Senior International Water Lawyers with experience in transboundary water treaties/management
- Translation services - English/Portuguese
- Editorial services - English/Portuguese
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing Specialists
- Transboundary Groundwater Management Specialists
- Tourism Development Specialists
- Mining Industry Specialists
- IWRM Specialists
- General - FINAL REOI
Consulting Firms/Entities with specific experience in capacity-building:
- Transboundary Groundwater Management
- Climate Variability; Change; Mitigation and Adaptation
- Water Transfer Schemes
- Confidence/Trust-building
- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- International Water Law
- River Basin Planning and Development
- Transboundary Issues in Water Quality Management
- Pre-feasibility and Feasibility Studies
- Environmental Impact Assessment in Transboundary Contexts
- Bankable Water Resources Project Preparation
- Economic Valuation and Accounting of Water and Related Beneficial Uses
- Environmental Flows and Ecosystem Goods and Services
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Meteorology
- Hydrology
- Irrigation Development in Transboundary Contexts
- Hydropower Development in Transboundary Contexts
- Flood and Drought Forecasting, Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Study Tours for Capacity Building in Transboundary Water Resources Management and Development
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Media Relations and Communication on Water Resources Management and Development
- Corporate Planning, Institutional and Organisational Development
Interested potential consultants are invited to submit Expressions of Interest (EOIs). For individual consultants, a covering letter and CV as well as copies of relevant qualifications in English are required. The CV should conform to the format below. Submissions from firms
should give details of the firm; description of similar assignments; experience in similar conditions; and availability of appropriate skills among staff.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to the ZAMCOM Procurement and Asset Disposal Guidelines setting forth ZAMCOM Policy on Conflict of Interest.
Expressions of interest must be submitted in electronic form to the e-mail address below clearly referenced “EOI – Individual Consultants and/or Consulting Firms” by Friday, 14th August, 2015. The total size of all attachments should be less than 10MB.
Further information pertaining to this REOI is obtainable from the address below during office hours: 0900 to 1700 Hours.
Zambezi Watercourse Commission
Attention: The Executive Secretary
128 Samora Machel Avenue
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel:+263 4 253 361 to 3
Voip: +263 867
Email: tender@zambezicommission.org
