Technical Assistance for Industrial Decarbonisation, CBAM Readiness, Gender Inclusion, Pilot Projects and Upscaling

Technical, advisory, and implementation support for strengthening industrial decarbonisation and carbon market preparedness in selected industrial sectors and MSME clusters in India: Identification, demonstration, and scale-up of innovative energy-efficient and low-carbon technologies, strengthening institutional and industrial capacities, improving product-level carbon accounting and monitoring systems, and promoting gender-responsive and inclusive approaches within industrial transformation. Services are to be delivered in close coordination with GIZ, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), and relevant public and private stakeholders. The assignment is structured into two work packages, combined under a single contract. Work Package A covers technical decarbonisation, pilots, upscaling, and knowledge systems, including identifying and assessing innovative, commercially proven energy efficiency and decarbonisation technologies through technical, economic, and commercial analyses, developing sector-specific technology deployment roadmaps, supporting the design and implementation of pilot demonstration projects (including management of technology subsidy mechanisms, technical assistance, and performance evaluation), developing recommendations for replication and scale-up of successful technologies within BEE programmes (including ADEETIE), developing and implementing a CBAM-aligned product-level carbon accounting tool, establishing an appropriate Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) framework, and designing and delivering capacity-building measures and knowledge products on industrial decarbonisation, ESG, CBAM, and carbon markets. Work Package B involves a gender-disaggregated data study and strengthening of workplace policies in MSME clusters, including conducting a gender-disaggregated baseline assessment across selected ADEETIE sectors and MSME clusters (collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data on workforce participation, occupational roles, working conditions, career progression, and barriers for women and other underrepresented groups), developing practical recommendations, supporting participating industries in strengthening or developing gender-responsive workplace policies, institutional mechanisms, and inclusive human resource practices, facilitating stakeholder consultations, awareness-raising, and capacity-building activities, and establishing mechanisms to monitor progress and document outcomes related to gender equality and diversity.

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