Objective of the consultancy In the frameworks of consulting services provision one has to prepare and present recommendations on incentives for institutions and individuals to improve energy efficiency in the state sector of Belarus with due regard of foreign experience. Scope of the assignment The provision of consulting services for analyzing the current situation and suggesting incentives which will suit to be applied in Belarus to improve energy efficiency in the state sector will be conducted by a team composed of an international consultant (Team Leader) and a local consultant. They will receive support from the project management team. A translator/interpreter will be provided to them as necessary. Within the frameworks of consulting services provision, duties of the consultants will include: Analysis of Belarusian current regulatory acts in the field of: - Planning budgetary funds to pay for the fuel and energy resources consumed by budgetary organizations;
- Setting standards for FER consumption;
- Stimulating energy saving in the budget sector.
- Analysis of the documentation produced by the Project:
- Reports on the status of energy efficiency incentives at the budgetary organizations of the Mogilev and Vitebsk regions (Project partners);
- Recommendations on the development of energy efficiency incentives at the budgetary organizations of the Mogilev and Vitebsk regions;
- A report on the feasibility and advisability of implementing within the frameworks of the Project of recommendations on the development of economic energy efficiency incentives at budgetary organizations in line with current legislation and relevant practices.
Preparation of an overview of the current positive experience of utilizing economic energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sectors of EU and CIS states based on: - Saving the budgetary funds earmarked for purchasing FERs as a result of energy saving improvements;
- Accumulating and disbursing moneys of special budgetary or extra-budgetary funds;
- Other sources and mechanisms.
- Good practices of economic energy efficiency incentives in the budget sectors of EU and CIS states shall be ranked separately for institutional energy efficiency incentives and staff incentives based on energy saving performance by the extent of:
- The feasibility of their application in Belarus;
- The probability of attracting additional investment to energy saving;
- The probability of risks materializing in the course of their introduction and utilization.
- Identification of incentives for institutions and staff which can be used in Belarus to improve energy efficiency in the state sector, and develop recommendations how to apply these incentives in the country.
Scope of work to be performed by the consultant The International Consultant (Team Leader) will be responsible for the delivery of the expected results of work. He/she will perform the following tasks: - Guide and manage the team’s work;
- Elaborate a detailed work plan;
- Conduct a comparative analysis of the current regulatory acts that are in effect in EU, CIS states and Belarus in the field of:
- Planning budgetary funds to pay for the fuel and energy resources (FER) consumed by budgetary organizations
- Setting standards for FER consumption
- Stimulating energy saving in the budget sector
- Analyze the documentation produced by the Project and related to the issues of energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sector
- Hold interviews and, where necessary, make field trips to acquire the impartial information necessary for developing recommendations
- Prepare an overview of the current positive experience of utilizing economic energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sectors of EU and CIS states
- Identify incentives for institutions and staff which can be used in Belarus to improve energy efficiency in the state sector, and develop recommendations how to apply these incentives in the country and discuss them with stakeholders
- Prepare the final version of report, with due regard of the stakeholders’ opinions.
Output of the consultancy The main output of work will be a report that will have to be approved by the UNDP Country Office in Belarus and the Energy Efficiency Department of the State Standardization Committee. Report structure It is suggested that the report be written in line with the following basic structure: - Executive summary
- A brief description of the Project
- Context and objective of consulting services
- Main conclusions and recommendations
- Introduction
- Prerequisites for stimulating energy saving in the budgetary sector of Belarus
- The objective of providing consulting services
- Key issues that are to be considered
- Outputs of consulting services and proposals on their application
- Methodology of preparing recommendations
- Project tasks as far as energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sector are concerned
- Problems to be addressed by the Project as far as energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sector are concerned
- Key stakeholders
- Expected results and their significance
- Situation analysis
- Positive experience of economic energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sectors of EU and CIS states
- An overview of the currently active mechanisms of institutional energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sector
- An assessment of 1) the feasibility of their application in Belarus, 2) the probability of attracting additional investment to energy saving, and 3) the probability of risks materializing in the course of their introduction and utilization
- An overview of currently active mechanisms of personal energy efficiency incentives in the budgetary sector
- An assessment of 1) the feasibility of their application in Belarus, 2) the probability of attracting additional investment to energy saving, and 3) the probability of risks materializing in the course of their introduction and utilization
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Incentives for organizations and staff and that suitable to be used in Belarus to improve energy efficiency in the state sector.
- Recommendations on the application the identified incentives in the country.
- Annexes
- TOR for the provision of consulting services
- A list of the documents reviewed
- Comments by stakeholders (only in the event of discrepancies between the opinions of experts and key stakeholders).
The first draft of the report is expected to be submitted to the UNDP Country Office in Belarus within 3 weeks of commencing work for subsequent dissemination among key project stakeholders who will make comments. Any differences between the expert’s and key stakeholders’ interpretation of the collected data will be explained in an annex to the final report. |