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Tender Details
- Country: Bhutan
- Summary: Wood-Based Economy in Bhutan
- BTT Ref No: 112830375
- Deadline: 16 Jan 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier:
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: 0002013460
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- The World Bank and the Department of Forest and ParkServices (DoFPS) of the Royal Government of Bhutan are launching an analyticalstudy to support increasing the use of wood and the economic contribution ofsustainable forest management to Bhutan-s development. The activity willidentify options to strengthen efficiency, production capacity, value addition,marketing, and governance in the supply and use of wood and wood-basedproducts. This analytical work aims to sustainably increase the utilization of timberresources for socio-economic benefits, especially the creation of employmentand rural income in Bhutan. The specific objectives are to analyze Bhutan-spotential to increase its sustainable use of forest resources and local supplyof raw materials for structural components of buildings, construction,furniture, and associated wood-based products in Bhutan and GMC. The study willanalyze all wood-based value chains, identifying existing gaps in eachidentified value chain and opportunities to a) improve production, timberharvesting, supply, waste, and resource management; b) the use of moderntechnologies, value addition, available vocational training, and skills demandfrom the industries, marketing and increase labor productivity and potentialemployment generation. In addition, the potential for reducing timber importsand increasing exports of value-added wood products will be explored, includinga technological assessment of existing wood-based enterprises and acost-benefit analysis of investments in more advanced processing.The key governmentinstitution leading this analytical work is the Forest Resources Planning andManagement Division, Department of Forests and Park Services, which will beengaged throughout the activity as the lead agency. Furthermore,NRDCL will be mainly targeted for market studies on timber and feasibilityassessments to increase the sustainable yield of forestry resources. There arealso private sector players such as the Association of Wood-Based I...
- Documents :
Purchaser : WORLD BANK(WB)
BT - Bhutan
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