Consultant - Policy and Strategy Expert Tender, Cote d'Ivoire - 27331096

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Country : Cote d'Ivoire

Summary : Consultant - Policy and Strategy Expert

Deadline : 15 Oct 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 27331096

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Competition : ICB

Financier : African Development Bank (AfDB)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Attn: Walter ODHIAMBO Chief Policy and Strategy Officer (SNSP) 6, Avenue Joseph Anoma 01 B.P. 1387 – Abidjan 01 Tel: +225 2026 2321
Cote d'Ivoire
Email :w.odhiambo@afdb.org

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Consultant - Policy and Strategy Expert.

Brief description of the Assignment: To review Bank policies, strategies and guidelines and prepare templates for the Bank Group Operational Manual

Department issuing the request: Strategy and Operational Policy Department (SNSP)

Place of assignment: The consultant will be based at the Bank Headquarters in Abidjan

Duration of the assignment: November 2018 – May 2019

Tentative Date of commencement: 1 st November, 2018

Detailed Terms of reference for the assignment: [Include a file in PDF format with detailed TORs]

Deadline for applications: October 15, 2018

Applications to be submitted to: w.odhiambo@afdb.org; v.chisala@afdb.org; Aminata Camara Traore (a.c.traore@afdb.org)

Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to: Walter Odhiambo w.odhiambo@afdb.org; Victoria Chisala v.chisala@afdb.org; Aminata Camara Traore a.c.traore@afdb.org.

Consultant Policy and Strategy Expert
Terms of Reference
1.0. Background
The Strategy and Operational Policies Department (SNSP), in the Senior Vice
Presidency complex of the African Development Bank (hereafter the Bank) is
responsible for developing corporate vision and strategic perspectives for the Bank
and formulating, revising and providing advice on operational policies and
procedures. SNSP works across the institution, helping to ensure strategic and
policy focus in decision-making, and improving alignment of resources with strategic
priorities.
Consistent with common practice among Major Development Finance Institutions, the
Bank has maintained an Operations Manual (OM) since 1993, which was revised in
1999 and 2014. The OM is a compendium of documents that serve as authoritative
repositories of information on corporate and organizational structures, principles and
values, goals and objectives, strategy and priorities, policies and guidelines, business
processes, rules, and procedures, including annotated formats and templates of
certain operational documents. The OM also codifies the corporate brand of the Bank
Group and is an important tool for assuring quality of its work.
Since the last revision in 2014, the Bank has undergone a major organisational
restructuring and fine-tuning adjustments1 and formulated/revised a wide range of its
operational orientation, policies, strategies, processes, rules, procedures and report
templates. A number of recent developments, both internal and external, which are of
fundamental importance to the Bank Group operations, but which are not reflected in
the current OM, include inter alia the following:
- Adoption of the High5s: The Bank in 2015 articulated the High5 priorities,
which are intended to sharpen the objectives and implementation of the Bank
Groups’ Ten Year Strategy (TYS). The High5 priorities are: Light up and
Power Africa; Feed Africa; Industrialize Africa; Integrate Africa; and Improve
the Quality of Life for the People of Africa. The Bank followed quickly with the
development of related strategies and implementation plans2
.
- The New Development and Business Delivery Model (BDBM): To align
with the High5 priorities, the Bank elaborated the Development and Business
Delivery Model (DBDM). The new model has entailed: (i) creation of a
regional complex with five Regional departments to decentralize the Bank
Group further; (ii) establishment of 3 sectors complexes - Energy, Climate
Change and Green Growth, Agriculture, Human and Social Development, and
Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization; (iii) reorganization of
responsibilities for non-sovereign operations (NSOs); (iv) reconfiguring the
Economic Governance and Knowledge Management Complex to ensure it
supports the intellectual and policy needs of the High5 agenda; (iv) creating of
new departments, including the Syndications and Clients Solutions
Department and the Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulations
Department and new divisions; (iv) scaling up of the decentralization with a
significant number of responsibilities and staff moved to the regional offices.


- Process Engineering: The Bank Group has undertaken a systematic review
of key processes as part of the current transformation. A Delivery
Accountability and Process Efficiency Committee (DAPEC) which was set up
in 2016, has already undertaken a review of the Bank Group existing business
processes, organizational culture, policies and procedures, with a view to
streamline and update these processes. The committee has focused its work
on key operational and institutional processes 3 and has completed reengineering
analysis for 17 processes. New structures such as the Technical
Quality Assurance Committee (TQAC), have also been established for this
purpose.
- Promulgation of the Delegation of Authority Matrices: The 2018 DAM
entered into force on 10 August 2018 through the Presidential Directive
No.02/2018, intended to supplement the amended 2012 DAM and to support
the DBDM. A key feature of the 2018 DAM is the increased authority of
managers in the regional and country offices to facilitate timely decisionmaking.
SNSP is now seeking individual consultancy services to revise and update the 2014
OM to align it with the Bank’s current strategic orientation and business processes.
The review will take cognizance of developments, both internal and external,
including the ones outlined above. The Consultant is expected to be part of a small
review team set up at SNSP for this assignment.

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