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Country : Dominican Republic

Summary : Consultancy: Evaluation and Systematization of the Actions, Processes and Achievements of the Campaign Let's Change the Priorities Promoted by Oxfam and Foro Ciuda

Deadline : 30 Mar 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 21720922

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Competition : ICB

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Purchaser : OXFAM INTERMÓN
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Email :procurement.dominicana@oxfam.org

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Tenders are invited for Consultancy: Evaluation and Systematization of the Actions, Processes and Achievements of the Campaign Let's Change the Priorities Promoted by Oxfam and Foro Ciuda.

Oxfam: Oxfam is a global organization for development that mobilizes the power of people against poverty. We promote campaigns so that the voices of people in situations of poverty can influence the decisions that affect them at the local and global level. In everything we do, from Oxfam we work creating alliances with other organizations and together with women and men in vulnerable situations, to end the injustices that cause poverty.

Citizen Forum: It is an articulation of organizations, organized in work tables, one of them the Social Policy Table, from where the Housing and Habitat Commission works. This commission promotes processes that seek to guarantee the right to decent housing is a guarantee that all people must enjoy, as established by the Dominican Constitution in Article 59.

3. Background and justification

For more than 30 years, the economy of the Dominican Republic has been one of the fastest growing in Latin America and the Caribbean, even so, 30.51 percent in 2016, according to official calculations. However, social spending in the DR remains low compared to the rest of the region. On average, total health spending in the DR increased from 2.2% of GDP in 2000 to 2.9% in 2014, compared to a regional average of 3.7%. This is a percentage similar to those found 10 years ago. The levels of inequality that exist in the country are growing and are a reflection of the fact that, despite the economic growth experienced, public policies have not made possible a real reduction of existing levels of inequality. The country's social spending is still far from the average figures for the region.

Additionally, we must consider that there is a high democratic deficit in the country that is reflected in the concentration of power in economic and political elites that allow, from a privileged position, to reorient the design of public policies that benefit those who have more . Examples of these are, the existing low tax pressure (14% 2), promotion of the privatization of basic services, control of the private sector in strategic sectors (such as the electricity sector) and infrastructures. It is also necessary to highlight the fiscal incentives to attract Foreign Direct Investment.

From June to December 2017, the Change Priorities campaign has been developed, which is inserted in the line of the EQUALS campaign: it is time to change the rules, which seeks to empower civil society to urge governments to reduce the extreme unequal through concrete and sustainable actions. In this framework, an action strategy has been drawn up, with the theme of taxation as a strategic line, with the objective of strengthening the strategic axes that Dominican civil society works in this case with the housing issue.

In this period, from the tax and rights analysis, we have been articulating different advocacy actions together with Ciudad Alternativa and the Housing and Habitat commission of Foro Ciudadano, two local organizations with extensive experience in the development of advocacy actions in the sector. living place.

4. Principles of work and adaptation to the norms and standards of learning and accountability

During the course of the entire intervention, for the institutions involved, it is key to develop strategies for monitoring, evaluation and accountability and learning, aimed at ensuring the participation of women, men and children in the planning, implementation and evaluation of their initiatives, as well as the involvement of key government actors in the evaluation processes.

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