CONSULTA DEVELOP PEMBA PLASTIC

TITLE: CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO DEVELOP THE PEMBA PLASTICS STRATEGY, ACTION PLAN AND SUPPORT ITS OPERATIONALISATION; ISLANDPLAS PLASTIC WASTE FREE ISLAND (PWFI) PILOT, ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY This consultancy has the following objective: To support Pemba’s government authorities to develop, validate, and begin operationalising a comprehensive island-wide Plastics Strategy and Action Plan, providing the strategic and governance foundation for the IslandPlas Plastic Waste Free Island (PWFI) pilot on Pemba, and ensuring the strategy is embedded in government-led efforts rather than initiated solely by the project. BACKGROUND Project Reference: P04772 Donor Reference: DR04772.22 About IUCN IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together. Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,400 Member organisations and around 15,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards. IUCN provides a neutral space in which diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. www.iucn.org https://twitter.com/IUCN/ About the IslandPlas Project The IslandPlas project targets seven African Islands, that is, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, and Zanzibar. Based on recent estimates, these Islands cumulatively generate an estimated two million tonnes of municipal waste annually. Plastic material constitutes an average of 11 percent of the waste material, equivalent to 200,000 tons per year. Approximately 40 percent of the plastic waste is recovered through collection, leaving 118 thousand tonnes uncollected or mismanaged, posing the single largest source of plastic pollution in the marine environment. Once in the ocean, mismanaged waste negatively impacts the tourism sector, fisheries and aquaculture, shipping, and overstretches the budgets of municipal and national authorities responsible for waste management. The project, running until end of 2027 envisions African Islands that are free from plastic waste in the environment, and that circular measures are in place to ensure zero plastics to the ocean. The project actions are designed to reduce and prevent plastic waste leakage into the environment through demonstrating effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage. Among others, the project contributes to achieving the objectives prescribed in the Declaration adopted by the Ministerial Conference on the Blue and Circular Economy in the Island States of Africa and the Indian Ocean (September 2023), that advocates for a blue and circular economy, enabled through circular entrepreneurship, skills development, increased investment towards science, research and development, and legal and policy reforms. The project is designed to strengthen understanding of national plastic material flows and waste and pollution footprint, integrate and support informal waste sector actors and local communities, support local ventures for innovation to reduce plastic pollution using locally-appropriate solutions, strength institutional capacities (municipal, informal sector) to catalyse change, and explore potential for an inter-regional recycling hub to support multiple islands. The project aims to achieve three main outcomes: i. Sustainable and improved livelihoods of informal waste sector actors engaged in a circular plastics economy (9,600 beneficiaries); ii. Quantifiable regeneration of plastic waste material through circular approaches, including through plastic material recovery (14,000 tons), recycling (5,600 tons) and upcycling; and iii. Strengthened sector innovation and enterprise development with new growth opportunities through direct capital investments to locally appropriate solutions (US $2 million). ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT Pemba's plastic waste challenge is compounded by its island geography, dispersed settlements, limited inter- district coordination, constrained transport to processing markets, and an informal sector that operates largely outside any formal recognition or support system. Addressing this challenge requires a strategic framework that is specific to Pemba's context, developed with the active participation of its own communities, businesses, and government authorities, and designed from the outset to be implementable rather than purely aspirational. IUCN is therefore seeking a qualified consultancy team to support Pemba's government authorities in developing a government-owned Plastics Strategy and Action Plan, drawing on the significant baseline data and stakeholder relationships already established through the IslandPlas Project. The Consultancy Firm will perform the following main tasks: 1. Build on the existing Zanzibar National Plastic Waste Profile Report, Arena Recycling baseline data, and stakeholder mapping already available through the IslandPlas Project, supplementing with any Pemba-specific gaps identified through initial consultations 2. [...] Procurement details Reference: IUCN-26-09-CONSULTA DEVELOP PEMBA PLASTIC-881 Procedure: SOP1 - Open Procedure Procurement type: Consulting IUCN office (lead): ESARO Kenya Requisitioning unit: ESARO - Coastal and Ocean Programme (KE) Project: P04772 IslandPlas Country of performance: Tanzania, United Republic of Expected contract duration: 6 months Estimated contract value: 25,000-199,999 CHF Currency of proposals: USD - United States dollar Language of documents: English Deadline for questions: 30 September 2026 20:59 UTC Deadline for technical and financial proposals: 15 October 2026 20:59 UTC Expected contract award date: 22 October 2026 20:59 UTC Documents - Terms of Reference: PWFI PEMBA_Terms of reference.pdf - Conditions for Participating: Conditions for Participating ENG-SPA-FRA v23-09-26.pdf - Standard contract: Standard Agreement.docx The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership union of government and civil society organisations working on nature conservation and sustainable development. 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