Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The project Climate-Resilient Water Sector in Grenada (G-CREWS), commissioned and financed by Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) presents an opportunity to comprehensively mainstream and implement climate resilience throughout Grenada's entire national water sec-tor. The project's holistic approach addresses two main climate risks and vulnerabilities of Grenada: freshwater availability and disaster preparedness. Other Caribbean communities share these vulnerabilities, rendering this project a model for regional application.
Climate change poses a severe threat to Grenada's water supply because the small island developing state (SIDS) relies on surface water sources and rainwater catchment. Water is a scarce resource in Grenada and climate change has already begun to aggravate the problem with an increasing average temperature and more erratic rainfall. More frequent heavy rainfall events make water supply outages more common due to high turbidity in the raw water supply. Saltwater intrusion in coastal groundwater aquifers due to sea level rise will further reduce the availability of freshwater in the future. The Vulnerability Assessment (VA) undertaken as part of the G-CREWS project preparation also indicates the water sector's high level of exposure, sensitivity and limited adaptive capacity to cope with climate change impacts.
The Government of Grenada (GoG) has demonstrated strong leadership in preparing the way for a paradigm shift in the water sector through clearly formulated national climate policy priorities. National climate change documents and strategies rank the water sector as one of those most affected by climate change — this includes Grenada's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the recently finalised National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and the currently updated National Climate Change Policy, 2017-2021. The National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy highlights the impacts of climate change, including on the water sector, for Grenada's eco-nomic development.
In order to avoid critical climate-induced water shortages in the future, this project supports Grenada's water sector in both reducing its water demand and improving water availability so that Grenada is able to ensure resilience to climate variability and expected future climate change until 2050.
The main objective of the G-CREWS project is to increase systemic climate change re-silience in Grenada's water sector.
The entire population of Grenada will benefit from the project.
To achieve its objective, the project supports the water sector's comprehensive transformation on multiple levels, which represents a nationwide ‘paradigm shift’ for Grenada's overall resilience. This paradigm shift will include citizens and businesses as water users, the public sector as provider of potable water and infrastructure, and behavioural changes triggered through appropriate governance, regulation, economic incentives and raising awareness.
This translates into the following five outputs (components):
Financed by GCF:
1) climate-resilient water governance,
2) climate-resilient water users,
3.)climate-resilient water supply system.
Financed by BMU:
4) Additional contributions of the water sector to Grenada's NDC,
5) regional learning and replication.
Based on an Environmental and Social Assessment an Environmental and Social Manage-ment Plan (ESMP) has been elaborated. The ESMP lists 14 actions to be executed in the con-text of the project realisation.
Tasks to be performed by contractors
The contractor is not responsible for the implementation of the whole project or a component thereof, but for the execution of the specific tasks. The staff members seconded by the contractor will cooperate closely with the GIZ project staff. The contractor contributes to the achievement of some of the outputs, complying with the associated indicators, fulfilling the module objective indicators, and implementing parts of the activities described below.
Activity 1.1.2: technical capacity building of WRMU;
Activity 1.1.3: strengthening the collection and management of water resources and climate change data;
Activity 2.1: challenge fund for climate-resilient commercial water users in the agriculture sector (irrigation, rainwater harvesting, hydroponics);
Activity 3.3.a: elaboration of an emergency response plan for NAWASA;
Activity 3.3.b: remote monitoring and control (SCADA) systems for the water supply system;
Activity 4.2: use of renewable energy in NAWASA's supply systems (photovoltaic and micro-turbines);
Activity 4.3: improving NAWASA's water loss reduction strategy;
Activity 5.1: support to the elaboration of lessons learned and replication in the Caribbean.
Beside of that, the contractor will contribute to the following ESMP actions:
— environmental, social, health and safety risk assessment of NAWASA's activities,
— certified quality, environment, health and safety management system for NAWASA (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 or OHSAS 18001),
— NAWASA health and safety management.