Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LoGIC) is a multi-donor collaborative initiative of GoB, UNDP, UNCDF, EU and SIDA. It aims to enhance the capacity of vulnerable communities, Local Government Institutions (LGIs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for planning and financing climate change adaptation solutions in selected climate vulnerable areas. The Local Government Division (LGD) is the implementing lead of the project in partnership with UNDP and UNCDF (for technical and management support).
By achieving objectives and results, the project will contribute reduction of vulnerability and poverty in Bangladesh. The project is expected to produce following results:
In order to address the vulnerabilities of Bangladesh to climate change, the project envisages the following priority areas of action:
The LoGIC project is being implemented in 72 vulnerable Unions of 19 Upazilas in 7 districts. It is expected that 72 Union Parishads (UPs) representatives, officers attached to 72 UPs, and 200,000 people from 72 unions will be direct beneficiaries of the project.
Specific objective for the assignment:
A social audit is an accountability mechanism where citizens organize and mobilize to evaluate or audit government’s performance and policy decisions. The purpose of the Social Audit is to improve the implementation of schemes, so that the process becomes more effective, efficient and transparent and that the full benefits of the projects reach the larger community. A Social Audit is more comprehensive than a traditional financial audit, where a Social Audit focuses on the community impact and usage of the project, the appropriateness of its design and the quality of its implementation (as well as the way the budget was used). A Social Audit is conducted through a participatory process that allows community members to evaluate the quality and appropriateness of the project that has been built in their community. It rests on the premise that when union parishad officials are watched and monitored, they feel greater pressure to respond to their constituents’ demands and have fewer incentives to abuse their power. Therefore, from the perspective of social audit the critical questions and premise are whether citizens have the skills, capacity and tools to effectively monitor and evaluate the performance of the union parishads.
Social audit can be defined as an approach and process to build accountability and transparency in the use and management of public resources. It relies on engagement from citizens and/or Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to directly and/or indirectly demand accountability and transparency in the public policy and budget cycles. Social audit is participatory and can be an anti-corruption and efficiency enhancing mechanism. It is based on the premise that citizens want and have the right to know what the government does; how it does it; how it impacts on them; and that the government has an obligation to account and be transparent to citizens.
To develop a methodology of social audit for using by CSO/NGO/research institution for social audit of LoGIC PBCRG and CRF funds
Scope of the work
Scope of work for this assignment is briefly described below:
Expected Outputs/ Deliverables
The selected consultant has to submit following deliverables:
Institutional Arrangements and Management
The consultant will work with LoGIC Project Management Unit (PMU) under the supervision of Project Coordinator.
Duration of assignment
The assignment is for a period of 40 working days over a period of four calendar months commencing from 1 June 2020.
SL No.
Tasks
Days required
01
Inception report
05 Days
02
Draft report
16 Days
03
Presentation
03 Days
04
Final report
16 Days
Total
40 Days
Inputs:
The consultancy will be home based focused on delivery. UNDP Bangladesh will not provide office space and other logistic support to the National Consultant.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
EXPERIENCE:
Cumulative analysis-
The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant up on Cumulative Analysis/evaluation and determined as:
Only candidates obtaining a minimum 70% mark in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.
Technical Evaluation Criteria (Total 70 marks):
Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks)
All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula:
p = y (µ/z)
where:
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).
Financial Milestone:
Sl no
Deliverables
Payment Schedule
1
after the submission of the Inception Report and cleared by the project.
20% of the total contract amount
2
After the submission of draft report and cleared by the project.
30% of the total contract amount
3
After the presentation of the report to Logic management and cleared by the project.
10% of the total contract amount
4
After the presentation of the final report and cleared by the project
40% of the total contract amount
DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
Proposal
http://www.bd.undp.org/content/dam/bangladesh/docs/Jobs/Interest%20and%20Submission%20of%20Financial%20Proposal-Template%20for%20Confirmation.docx
This vacancy is archived.