Deadline: 22-Dec-22
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Viet Nam is inviting project proposals for Phase 2 of the No Plastic in Nature Initiative, funded by NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) via WWF-Norway.
Aims
- Plastic pollution is a rapidly growing environmental problem of global concern. The complexity of the issue of plastic pollution demands a holistic, multi-level, multi-actor approach across the full life cycle of the plastics value chain. The aim of drastically reducing plastic pollution is not achievable without the adoption of new global rules and regulations, development and piloting of national level policy tools such as EPR and the scaling of local level solutions in cities. The second phase of the No Plastic in Nature Initiative will build upon key achievements and learning from the first phase of the programme. WWF will continue advocating for a new international legally binding agreement to regulate plastic pollution through a network of more than 40 WWF offices and will providing technical assistance to governments. Without clear proposals from champion governments and civil society combined with campaigning and building of public pressure, the treaty can easily be captured by vested interests, be watered down, and the impact significantly reduced. WWF-Norway is leading a global policy team and coordinating a structure that supports all WWF offices in the global advocacy efforts. Five WWF offices, the Philippines, China, Vietnam, South Africa and Colombia will receive direct funding and provide regional coordination.
- A second aim of this programme is to increase the accountability of the businesses responsible for plastic pollution resulting in more increased circular waste management. They will work for mandatory and effective Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes in China, Kenya and the Philippines. Finally, WWF will analyse key learnings from own Plastic Smart Cities projects in Southeast Asia and China and other organisations’ plastic waste management projects. This assessment will be used to develop tools for scaling and replication of waste management solutions in cities together with relevant institutional partner(s).
Funding Information
- Total Budget of the Project: 1 222 468 NOK
- The single currency for price conversions is: Vietnamese Dong
- Duration: 01 Jul 2022 to 31 Dec 2024
Project Location: Viet Nam
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical proposal should comprise information which shows that the firm and its technical proposal meet at least the followings:
- Be a legal entity with business license granted by the competent in the project country and has written confirmation from a recognized institution;
- The audit firm is familiar with International Auditing Standards and Vietnam Auditing Standards (VAS)
- Have at least 8 years’ experience in the field of Audit
- Experience in similar ODA projects
- Understanding of the audit requirements
- Understanding the deliverable of the requirements
- Approach and methodology to be used
- Initiatives (if any) for improving audit implementation plan
- Implementation plan (starting time and total time needed)
- Human resources arrangement (meet requirements and fit with the implementing plan) Team leader and Team member hold CPA, or ACCA, CFA or MBA qualification and experience with audit of ODA funded project.
- Language of the Proposal: The Proposals prepared by the bidders and all correspondence and documents relating to the Proposal exchanged by the bidders and WWF-Viet Nam shall be written in the English language. Any printed literature furnished by the bidders may be written in another language so long as accompanied by an English translation of its pertinent passages in which case, for purposes of interpretation of the Proposal, the English translation shall govern.
Audit Conditions
- The audit shall be carried out by an independent chartered/certified or state-authorised public accountant (auditor).
- Norad reserves the right to approve the auditor and may require that the auditor shall be replaced if Norad finds that the auditor has not performed satisfactorily or if there is any doubt as to the auditor’s independence or professional standards.
- The auditor shall form an opinion on whether the Project’s financial statements fairly reflect the financial position of the Project and whether they are prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework and the requirements.
- The auditor shall report in accordance with the applicable audit standards, as agreed in the Specific Conditions
- The audit report shall include:
- the Project name and agreement number;
- the Project period subject of the audit;
- reference to the financial reporting framework applied;
- the auditing standards applied;
- a statement that the auditor has obtained reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement;
- the auditor’s opinion.
- If any findings have been reported in the Project’s management letter, the Grant Recipient shall prepare a response including an action plan to be submitted to Norad together with the management letter.
- The costs of the audit of the Project’s financial statements shall be included in the Project’s budget.
- The Annual Audit Report will follow the format provided by Norad through WWF-Norway.
For more information, visit WWF-Viet Nam.