Request for Expressions of Interest - Supporting Zambia EITI on beneficial ownership transparency
Introduction
The Opening Extractives Programme is seeking a consultant to enhance implementation support to Zambia on beneficial ownership disclosures. This will entail supporting the EITI multi stakeholder group in Zambia, national secretariat, and key government agencies in facilitating policy discussions and improving disclosures of beneficial ownership. The objective is to support the MSG and key stakeholders to understand the beneficial ownership disclosures, identify the current gaps in Zambia and strengthen their capacity to collect, disclose and analyse beneficial ownership data. The assignment is expected to take 80 consultancy days over 6 months.
The consultant should be a individual(s) that ZEITI and the OE Programme consider to be credible, trustworthy and technically competent.
The consultant must be based in Lusaka, Zambia and must demonstrate:
- Experience and knowledge of beneficial ownership transparency tools, use-cases and approaches.
- Experience in engaging and coordinating with multi-stakeholders, and in facilitating high level technical engagements and capacity strengthening.
- Experience of similar jobs in the past.
To ensure quality and independence in the undertaking, the consultant must, in their technical and financial proposals, disclose any potential or actual conflicts of interest, together with a comment about how they may be avoided.
A consultant will be selected following a quality- and cost-based selection procedure.
Consultants should submit:
- A Technical Proposal, outlining: (a) the experience of the firm / consultants, (b) the proposed methodology and work plan in response to the Terms of Reference (TORs) and (c) the key experts’ qualifications and competence. The Technical Proposal should not include any financial information. Technical proposals containing material financial information shall be declared non-responsive.
- A Financial Proposal, clearly indicating a lump sum financial proposal, inclusive of all costs associated with required travel and applicable taxes. The financial proposal should clearly differentiate fees from any other reimbursable expenses. The daily rate for the consultant fees should be clearly indicated. The Financial Proposal should be sent as a password protected PDF file. The passwords should not be sent. The passwords will be requested following the assessment of the technical proposals.
Proposals must be delivered by email to skasimova@eiti.org by 5 August 2021.
About EITI
We believe that a country’s natural resources belong to its citizens. Our mission is to promote understanding of natural resource management, strengthen public and corporate governance and accountability, and provide the data to inform policymaking and multi-stakeholder dialogue in the extractive sector. By becoming a member of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), countries commit to disclose information along the extractive industry value chain – from how extraction rights are awarded, to how revenues make their way through government and how they benefit the public. Through participation in the EITI, more than 50 countries have agreed to a common set of rules governing what has to be disclosed and when – the EITI Standard. In each country that has joined the EITI, a multi-stakeholder group, composed of government, companies and civil society, supports implementation of the EITI Standard.