International Environmental Services Projects: Worldwide
Global Study for the Purpose of World Bank Guidance Development, Solid Waste Management Holistic Decision Modeling
Client/Agency
The World Bank
Description
The World Bank's solid waste thematic group faces increasingly complex issues in providing support to local governments in World Bank member countries. We support the World Bank by applying our Municipal Solid Waste Decision Support Tool to analyze management alternatives and technologies and their potential application in Nepal, Guinea, Pakistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Amman, Argentina, Shanghai, Japan, and the United States. We are supporting a data collection team, entering data into the tool, analyzing alternative waste management scenarios, and presenting and interpreting results.
Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management (Water IQC II) (2004-2009)
Client/Agency
United States Agency for International Development
Background
RTI is a partner in the consortium led by the International Resources Group (IRG) and Tetra Tech, Inc., to provide technical support for all aspects of integrated water and coastal resources management (IWCRM) to USAID field missions, regional bureaus, and other USAID/Washington offices. The following list of subsectors of water and coastal resources management reflects the wide range of technical areas that might be included in a task order statement of work, in any combination and at one or multiple scales of intervention:
- Integrated water resources management
- Environment
- Economic growth and energy
- Agriculture and food security
- Global health
- Democracy and governance
Environmental Health Initiatives Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) (2004-2009)
Client/Agency
United States Agency for International Development
Background
The Environmental Health IQC is the latest in a series of contracts, spanning over 20 years, offering expert technical assistance to USAID in the field of environmental health.
The Environmental Health IQC supports environmental, behavioral, and policy interventions to prevent infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and injuries caused by environmental conditions. Under the EH IQC, USAID can order support services in twelve technical areas: vector control, water supply and sanitation, solid waste management, infection control (hospital sanitation), integrated programs in population-health-environment, indoor air pollution, outdoor air pollution, injury prevention, toxic substance exposure, radiation exposure, health impacts of climate change, and emerging/reemerging infectious diseases.
Purpose
To provide services in environmental health as requested by USAID Missions, the Global Health Bureau, other USAID Bureaus and operating units. As the prime contractor, RTI will provide access to a broad range of expertise in interventions to reduce exposure to agents of disease and to hazards that exacerbate disease, by focusing on improvements in the physical environment and in key behaviors.
Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening Services (EPIQ II) (2003-2008)
Client/Agency
United States Agency for International Development
Background
RTI is a subcontractor to PA Consulting under this task-order-based contract. Technical areas of work may include:
- Environmental policy support -- priority setting and strategic planning, policy analysis support, policy dialogue (consensus building and design), policy implementation support, policy evaluation support, and dissemination of policy knowledge and research
- Multilateral environmental agreements -- natural resource management related issues, human settlements, and other emerging issues
- Global climate change
- Public-private partnerships
- Institutional development -- human resources development, sustained financing/grant-making capacity, and institutional strengthening
- Linking environment and economic growth
- Policy program management and support
More Information
- EPIQ II (Web site)