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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#333333;background:white">Lao People’s Democratic Republic<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#333333;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#333333;background:white">The Ministry of Energy and Mines intends to apply for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the <strong><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Clean
Cook Stove Initiative Project</span></strong>, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#333333;background:white">The Lao PDR Clean Cook Stove Initiative (the project) is distributing 50,000 forced-draft gasifier cookstove to enhance energy efficiency in cookstoves
and reduce carbon emissions from households across eight to eleven districts in three provinces (Vientiane Capital, Savannakhet, and Champasack Provinces) in Lao PDR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement-detail/OP00073797">https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement-detail/OP00073797</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#333333;background:white">Detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at the following website: <strong><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""><a href="https://bit.ly/2HZ4Ppa"><span style="font-weight:normal">https://bit.ly/2HZ4Ppa</span></a></span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Crispin<o:p></o:p></p>
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