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Financing Pathway and Actor Mapping, Senmonorom CWIS Plan

with Environmental Sanitation Cambodia

BTDC-ID: 42407
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Expected Outputs

Financing Pathway and Actor Mapping, Senmonorom CWIS Plan

Announcement Description

Environmental Sanitation Cambodia (ESC) Cambodian non-profit, and non-governmental organization (NGO). ESC has a long-standing partnership with BORDA implement the BMZ-financed project "Decentralized Water and Sanitation Solutions for Small Towns in Cambodia and Laos" (2026–2028). Under Output 3, ESC is preparing a City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) plan for Senmonorom, Mondulkiri Province. The plan is expected to be endorsed by the municipality in the fourth quarter of 2026.

The problem this assignment addresses is the step from an endorsed plan to committed financing. Comparable planning documents in Cambodia have not converted into investment: a feasibility study and proposal for a faecal sludge treatment plant in Battambang, at an order of magnitude of USD 7 million, has been without a financier for four to five years, and other agencies are likewise seeking funding for treatment infrastructure. An endorsed plan that does not reach financing has limited value to the municipality and does not demonstrate the approach the project is intended to promote.

A working assumption of this assignment is that the most probable route to financing a municipal sanitation investment in Cambodia is not an international grant, but the public investment planning cycle — provincial and municipal investment plans, sub-national funds and the national capital budget — potentially in combination with loan-financed programmes and with grant or corporate co-financing for specific components. The assignment must therefore treat the public financing route as a work package in its own right and not as a secondary option.

A separate assignment (reference 2026/ESC-01) provides the independent technical review of the plan. This assignment does not review the plan’s technical content.

Expected Outputs

Financing Pathway and Actor Mapping, Senmonorom CWIS Plan

  • Career Category: Consultancies
  • Location: Phnom Penh
Summary

Reference: 2026/ESC-02

Assignment: Financing pathway for the Senmonorom CWIS Plan, and mapping of CWIS actors and financing sources in Cambodia

Contracting party: Environmental Sanitation Cambodia (ESC)

Beneficiary / implementing partner: Environmental Sanitation Cambodia (ESC), Phnom Penh / Senmonorom

Type of contract: Short-term expert consultancy (individual expert or two-person team)

Maximum budget: USD 5,150 (all-inclusive)

Contract period: 13 November 2026 – 31 December 2026 (maximum three months)

Mode of delivery: Home-based, with meetings in Phnom Penh where the expert is based in or travelling to Cambodia at no additional cos

Publication of the call: 25 August 2026

Evaluation and award: 11-12 November 2026; contract signature by 13 November 2026

Reporting to: ESC, who accepts all deliverables, in coordination with the ESC Project Manager

Scope of services

  • Work Package 1 — Mapping of CWIS actors and initiatives in Cambodia
  • Work Package 2 — The public financing route
  • Work Package 3 — Investment packaging and bankability
  • Work Package 4 — Financier intelligence and engagement support
  • Work Package 5 — One submission-ready funding proposal

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Budget

The maximum budget is USD 5,150, all-inclusive of professional fees, taxes, domestic travel and all incidental costs. The financial offer must state the daily fee rate, the number of days per work package, and any reimbursable costs itemised separately. Please note that, in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Cambodia, withholding tax may applied appending on the bidder’s tax registration status.

Eligibility

  • Essential
  • At least seven years of professional experience in development finance, infrastructure finance or institutional fundraising, with a focus on water, sanitation or urban infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated working knowledge of Cambodian public investment planning and sub-national finance, evidenced by at least one completed assignment involving the municipal, provincial or national capital budget process.
  • A documented record of successful funding proposals to at least two of: multilateral development banks, bilateral donors, climate funds, or corporate funders.
  • Ability to engage development partners in Cambodia at programme officer level or above, evidenced in the offer.
  • Advantageous
  • Familiarity with city-wide inclusive sanitation, decentralised wastewater treatment or faecal sludge management.
  • Working knowledge of Khmer, and the ability to review Cambodian planning and budget documents in the original.
  • Experience with corporate social responsibility financing in Cambodia.
  • An engineering qualification is not required for this assignment. The technical review of the plan is contracted separately.

Submission Requirements

Offers are to be submitted by e-mail, in PDF, with the subject line " 2026/ESC-02 – Offer", to email provided in the contact details.

Deadline: 10 November 2026, 17:00 ICT. Questions of clarification may be submitted to the same addresses up to four working days before the deadline; answers are shared with all bidders who have registered their interest.

This assignment is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the project "Decentralised Water and Sanitation Solutions for Small Towns in Cambodia and Laos" (2026–2028).

Attachment:
  • ToR_ESC_02_Financing_Pathway_and_Actor_Mapping_EXTERNAL_Revised_V3
 

Contact Details

Office Address
  • #10bis, St.430, Sangkat Phsar Daeum Thkov, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
 
Contact Name
  • Vira Riel, Project Manager
 
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