General Information about the Project

Project Name / Domain

PROECCO PROGRAMME: Promoting Climate Responsive Building Material

Production and Off-farm Employment in the Great Lakes Region

Project activity codes

Component 1 and 2

Implementing Agency

Skat Consulting Rwanda Ltd

Procurement Authority

Skat Consulting Rwanda Ltd

Background Information about the Project

Since 2013, SKAT Consulting Ltd. (Skat) has been implementing the project known as PROECCO Programme, which is mandated by the Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC). The overall aim of the project is to minimize the impact of building material production on the environment while improving the livelihoods and working conditions of workers in the brick production sub-sector. The Project brings together a wide range of stakeholders along the construction value chain including the building material producers, housing developers, contractors, labour, raw material suppliers, business service providers, authorities, training institutions, etc.

The SDC has been involved in the field of local building materials in the Great Lakes region since 2012 through PROECCO mandating SKAT as the main implementing partner. This program works to preserve natural resources and create jobs and incomes for young people. In the last two phases of implementation (2012-2016 and 2016-2020), the project has been successful:

• to test and validate technologies for the production of modern bricks (MB) that allow (1) the improvement of workflows, (2) the substitution of firewood for alternative fuels (bio-waste), (3) the reduction of energy consumption by up to 80%;
• to develop one of the types of improved baked brick, called modern brick (MB), energy efficient (reduction of wood cutting) and meeting the standards of strength and durability as a building material.
• to develop a training program in industrial ceramics for integration into technical schools.
• to successfully integrate women into the production and construction of modern bricks.
• demonstrate the enormous potential for reducing CO2 emissions for the green transformation of the Great Lakes Region's construction industry.
• to design and test a wide repertoire of business models, from mobile microenterprises to semi- mechanized factories.
• to demonstrate an affordable housing model, (Swiss Cube) containing a constructive system, a method and a model plan of participatory (re)subdivision for spontaneous neighbourhoods, which so far reproduced by the private sector and the authorities have been copied more than 2,000 times in the region.

The 3^rd phase of PROECCO (2021-2024) aims to maximize the comparative advantage of the project in national urban development strategies to promote a green transformation of the construction industry and sustainable housing in the three countries concerned, namely Rwanda, Burundi, and South Kivu in DRC.

The program aims to boost the creation of jobs and income for young people in the brick industry while developing sustainable housing for the populations of the Great Lakes region and reducing the impact of the construction sector on the environment and climate.

As a result of a major restructuring of the project, PROECCO focuses on three intervention areas between 2023 and 2024, namely:

1. Outcome 1, Sustainable and inclusive urban transformation: Institutions are equipped and capable of implementing inclusive urban transformation and green affordable housing projects, and have the tools to mobilize private sector players.

2. Outcome 2, Establishment of Eco-Industrial Park: The skills and knowledge needed to design and operate a plant producing green building materials are available on the private market, and public institutions are supporting the growth of the sector by facilitating the establishment of grouped industrial facilities and promoting quality control measures.

3. Outcome 3, Skills transfer: Local service providers have the technical skills needed for the development of the modern brick housing value chain and make them available to authorities and the construction sector.

About the Type Assignments

Type of assignment

Conducting Social and Environmental Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Cost and Benefits of proposed Rehabilitation

Methods for Pilot Eco-Industrial Park

Place of work

Rwanda

Partners

SDC

Mandatory Eligibility Criteria - Key Experiences and Qualifications (Y/N)

As provided in Annex-1 of this call for proposal

Award Criteria

Relevance of experience of the company

Max 10

Relevance of specific professional experience of the proposed team

Max 30

Evaluation of the methodological approach

Max 30

Experience from working with other international organizations

Max 10

Value-for-money

Max 20

Timetable, Deadline

01/12/ 2023, at 10:00. application to procurement@int.skat.ch

E-mail subject: Application to the tender on Conducting Social and Environmental Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Cost and

Benefits of proposed Rehabilitation Methods for pilot Eco- Industrial Park

Contract          &                    Payment Arrangement

The selected bidder will sign the contract with Skat Consulting Rwanda. Payments will be based on a contract signed between the two parties