Service Contract No 2007 / 147-446 Strategic ... - Swaziland

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and would be financed in under the 2007 and 2008 allocation (with top-up funding in futureyears).In December 2007, a consortium comprising GFA Consulting Group ULG and HarewelleInternational Limited has been awarded the service contract for the Restructuring andDiversification Management Unit in Swaziland, funded by the European Commission. Thecontract value of this service contract amounts to approximately € 3.8 million and caters for 4long-term technical advisers and up to 130 person-months short-term experts. The contractstarted on 14th of January 2008.The European Commission requires that a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to beundertaken for the preparation and implementation of the country’s response strategythrough the NAS. Particular emphasis will need to be made on the technical assistance thathas been provided by the EC under the Accompanying Measures for the Sugar ProtocolCountries (AMSPC) (through the MIP) based on the EC Country Strategy Paper (CSP) forthe country. The SEA assignment will assess all the environmental effects (positive,negative, social or economic) associated with the preparation and implementation processesof the NAS actions. Particular attention will have to be given to those elements that caneither foster or break the effective performance of the NAS actions such as the availability ofwater resources for irrigation (water hydrology, greenhouse gases & climate change), energyco-generation (co generation through sugar cane trash and residuals), and development(land tenure & land use planning, flora & fauna), infrastructure improvements (transport costsavings) improved production efficiency (farm input use pollutants, land degradation,migration) and sugar processing (standards, socio-economic impacts). Another importantissue to be studied is the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on the sugar sector with a view toNAS implementation.The implementation of the NAS is on-going with the Ministry of Economic Planning &Development (MEPD) being the leading Government agency. The EC is the contractingagency for the implementation of the MIP actions and the RDMU playing a co-ordinationfunction. The NAS Steering Committee (NASSC) provides advice and contribution in theimplementation of the NAS actions. The members of the NASSC are the MEPD (Chair),Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Swaziland Sugar Association (SSA), Swaziland Cane GrowersAssociation (SCGA), Ubombo Sugar, Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation (RSSC),Swaziland Agriculture Development Enterprise (SWADE), Co-ordination Assembly of theNGOs (CANGO) and the RDMU. The NAS Working Groups (NASWGs) do the technicalanalysis on the proposed actions and make recommendations for endorsement by theNASSC.2. DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT2.1. ObjectiveThe global objective of the assignment is to describe, identify and assess the likely significantimpacts on the environment of the implementation of the country’s NAS actions. Thisexercise will take into account the preparation and implementation of the EC interventionsunder the AMSPC and other possible alternatives to support the delivery of the NAS actions.The outcomes of this assignment should be in a position to provide the decision-makers (i.e.the Government of Swaziland (GoS), the EC, the NAS SC and other donors) with relevantinformation to assess the environmental challenges and consideration with regards to theimplementation of the NAS actions and the sustainability of the results. This should allow thatthe potential environmental impacts are appropriately integrated into the mainstreamimplementation processes of the NAS.RDMU (Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Adaptation Strategy) - Page 190
2.2. Requested services for the first assignmentFor this assignment, the output is the provision of 130 working days by three experts input forassessing the environmental effects of the preparation and implementation processes of theNAS actions with a view to take into account the potential environmental impact and therequired measures to mitigate these effects.2.3. Expected resultsThe assignment will compose of two parts, which are the scoping study and the SEA study.The initial study will identify and define the issues that will need to be addressed by the SEAstudy, with a particular emphasis on the preparation and implementation processes that wereadopted by the NASSC and the other structures involved in the NAS. The conclusions of thescoping study will determine specifically the scope of activities, calendar and budgetresources for the SEA study.The SEA scoping study will deliver the following results;• A description of the country’s NAS response to the EU Sugar Market Response and itsalternatives 62 ;• A brief description of the institutional and legislative framework of the sugar sector andsugar industry in the country;• A brief presentation of the relevant environmental policies and objectives in the country(taking into account the information provided in the CEP) and the EC framework;• An identification of the key stakeholders in the sugar sector and their concerns;• An identification of the country’s key NAS – environment interactions;• A description of the scope of the environmental baseline that will be undertaken;• A presentation of the impact identification and evaluation methodologies to be used inthe SEA study;• An indication of the time-frames, and resources that will be needed to carry-out the SEAstudy.The following will be the results for the SEA study:• An environment assessment of the country’s NAS, including the potential environmentimpacts of its implementation and its consistency with the country’s and EC’senvironmental policies and objectives;• Recommendations for the NAS implementation enhancement which will includeperformance indicators, use of technical assistance and other aid delivery methods.2.4. Issues to be studied in the Environmental Scoping Study2.4.1. Overview of the NAS actions and its alternativesThe consultant must describe the NAS actions. The NAS articulated 60 measures that will beimplemented to support the reform of the local sugar industry to improve its efficiency andcompetitiveness. This is essential to ensure that the sugar industry continues to contribute tothe overall country’s economic growth and the participating small-holder growers derivemeaningful returns from participating in the industry. The Multi-annual Indicative Programme(MIP) indicates the elements that are being supported by the EC.62Other NAS stakeholders make a contribution in the implementation of the NAS actions in addition to the ECfunding. There are other related activities that are supported by other donor agencies such as the AfDB andIFAD particularly under the KDDP and LUSIP. GoS also contribute in the financing of the new entrantgrowers under LUSIP. Ubombo Sugar has in the pipeline investment for the expansion of the mill.RDMU (Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Adaptation Strategy) - Page 191
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2 BACKGROUND2.1 The EU sugar reform
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operating in Swaziland, one in Simu
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4.2 Climate and climate changeSwazi
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which revealed that 66% of the popu
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improving co-ordination; to have a
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measures of the NAS, the RDMU indic
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sustainable business. Based on ISO
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effluent standards. Otherwise there
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IndicatorObjective 1a: Positive and
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