CONSULTANCY ON LEAD EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT, PUBLIC AWARENESS, AND POLICY ADVOCACY FOR CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The objective of this consultancy is to support UNICEF and the Government of Lesotho in identifying environmental health policy priorities through strengthened evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, and public awareness campaigns. The scope of the consultancy includes conducting a country assessment on a range of environmental hazards and risk factors affecting children in Lesotho, facilitating stakeholder consultations, and strengthening policy frameworks.
Sustainable Procurement practices integrate requirements, specifications, and criteria that are compatible and in favour of the protection of the environment, the social progress and in support of economic development. These practices seek resource efficiency, improve the quality of products and services, and ultimately optimize costs (HLCM Procurement Network). Sustainable Procurement is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (goals 12 and 12.7), and it also contributes to the achievement of all SDGs. This procurement opportunity is considered sustainable as it incorporates at least three sustainability considerations, in accordance with the HLCM Procurement Network's Sustainable Procurement Working Group - Sustainability Indicators Framework. To learn more about which considerations are included in this procurement opportunity, please see below for a specific description. For more information, contact the procurement official or author of this procurement opportunity.
The tender contains sustainability considerations related to the protection of the environment, biodiversity and restoration of natural habitats.
Examples:
Sustainable/ organic agriculture, fishing or forestry.
The tender contains sustainability considerations promoting health and general well-being of consumers/ recipients of the good or service.
Examples:
Hazardous chemicals handling, labelling of chemicals.
The tender incorporates contract conditions/ KPIs that stipulate the verification of suppliers' environmental and social claims through “spot checks” and audit provisions.
The tender considers the whole life cycle cost of the service or product.