Leveraging Development Finance (Part 2) – Procurement Insights

Following the EARSC EO Café held on 13 October 2022 on the subject of ‘leveraging development finance’, a follow-up webinar will be hosted by Caribou Space and Imperative Space under the GDA Monitoring & Evaluation activity on 15 December 2022, with the Participation of Alex Chunet (ESA representative to World Bank), Bwalya Mumba (World Bank Procurement Specialist) and Benjamin Stewart (World Bank Senior Geographer).

The objective of this webinar is to present and discuss the nature of World Bank EO-related procurement opportunities and modalities to access them. This event will offer EO service providers the opportunity to better understand the existing regulation that governs WB procurements, the eligibility criteria, the steps to follow, and the constraints or processes specific to EO-related procurements. In addition, the speakers will provide general guidelines and advice on the best ways to approach those opportunities as well as the recent patterns and the evolution in the type of EO-related products and services that are being procured.

If you are interested in this webinar, please register following this link.

Agenda (CET):

• 15:00 – 15:05 – Introduction
• 15:05 – 15:35 – Presentations and live conversation between Alex Chunet, Bwalya Mumba and Benjamin Stewart
• 15:35 – 15:55 – Q&A session
• 15:55 – 16:00 – Closing remarks