Australia China Environment Development Program (ACEDP)

ACEDP is a five-year Government-to-Government initiative, with the objective of improving environmental protection and natural resource management (in particular water management) to balance the needs of the environment and human development in China. GHD Pty Ltd is the Managing Contractor for ACEDP.

GHD is seeking qualified service providers to manage the implementation of two activities:

• Public Participation in Social and Environmental Impact Assessment and Basin Water Pollution Control (PPSB),
• Social Impact & Gender Mainstreaming Package (SI&GM).

The PPSB is to develop procedures for enabling and promoting public awareness and participation in both social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) and river basin water pollution control for the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. It will be conducted in two phases over two years. Phase 1 involves research, dialogue, design and dissemination of appropriate SEIA models; Phase 2 involves a pilot study to test the application of the model  in the Lake Tai Basin, evaluation and revision, followed by dissemination and policy recommendations.

The SI&GM is designed to operationalise the Social Impact Management, Public Participation & Gender Mainstreaming (SP&G) Framework by strengthening the capacity of all four Chinese program core partner agencies in identifying, addressing and mainstreaming public participation, social impact mitigation and gender equity issues in all aspects of national policy formulation and implementation. The SI&GM package will deliver workshops in China, organise Australian study tours and work attachments in Australia and build local capacities through an extensive training program.

It is anticipated that the two activities will commence in March 2009. The PPSB will be completed within 24 months. The SI&GM will be completed within 14 months.

Selection of the Australian implementing agency will be on a competitive, one step basis. The closing date for submission of both proposals is 5:00pm Friday 16 January 2009.

All interested parties should notify Ms Casey Feng via email mei.feng@acedp-partnership.org of their interest to tender in order to receive future tender notifications or any potential addenda for this tender opportunity.