Consultant Development Financing Assessment (DFA) Tender, Egypt - 29971195

Procurement Summary

Country : Egypt

Summary : Consultant Development Financing Assessment (DFA)

Deadline : 30 Jan 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 29971195

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
World Trade Center, 1191 Corniche El Nil Street Boulac, Cairo Fax Number: +2/25742620 registry.eg@undp.org / procurementnotice.egypt@undp.org
Egypt
Email :registry.eg@undp.org / procurementnotice.egypt@undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultant Development Financing Assessment (DFA).

Background

Egypt objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) are an ambitious agenda for Egypt to achieve its national targets and SDGs by 2030.With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) there is an opportunity to strengthen the focus of national goals on human development and sustainable development.

Egypt is among few countries which reported twice on the SDGs (2016 and 2018), through the Voluntary National Review. The United Nations welcomes the government’s early and strong commitment to the sustainable development agenda, which is also reflected in the timely appointment of the SDG national Committee chaired by the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform[1] in charge of the coordination of the Government’s joint implementation of the SDS and SDGs.

Guided by the UN-led MAPS[2] engagement for a common approach to support the implementation and mainstreaming of the SDGs in national plans, policies, strategies and budgets with the aim to accelerate critical SDG achievement, UNDP will support the carrying out a Development Financing Assessment (DFA) for Egypt, the study will include a) a comprehensive review of development finance landscape, b) mapping of Social Protection schemes and financing structure, c) analysis of the international/external investment and ODA pertaining to SDS goals and SDG; with a special focus on Social Protection, including gender issues.

The assessment will analyze general financing flows for SDGs to set the general baseline (Landscape) but will above all focus on the financing flows and systems relevant for social protection.

Social protection is understood as the set of policies and systems that address risk and vulnerability, as well as absolute deprivation of weaker segments of the society, through measures that are both social and public in character. In this study, a special attention will be made to social protection actions in the Government's Program that aim “to develop a fair and effective social protection system to protect all families under the poverty line as well as increasing the subsidies to support 60% of the population below the poverty line”, also upgrading targeting systems to increase the number of families having access to decent housing services.

For the sake of simplicity, the assessment will further follow the ILO’s definition of social protection floors:

“Social protection floors are nationally defined sets of basic social security guarantees that should ensure, as a minimum that, over the life cycle, all in need have access to essential health care and to basic income security which together secure effective access to goods and services defined as necessary at the national level.”

The Development Finance Assessments (DFA) are the very first development finance studies of their kind that seek to move away from fragmented views on the use of the different sources of funds that are primarily dedicated to addressing development issues. Rather, it aims to help countries to review how their own stated national development policy objective are being reflected in public expenditures, and private investment, more broadly and how institutions might be adjusted to ensure that development finance is delivered in a coherent way across all areas of government. The DFA establishes the baseline of the existence of components of the INFF in the country, and makes recommendations for strengthening the INFF. It takes into account the social, economic and environmental dimensions of development and it analyses the roles that different development finance flows play for or against sustainable development considering all these dimensions.

1. Scope of Work

The DFA process consists of several phases including;

1. DFA scoping mission and deciding institutional arrangements for the DFA,

2. DFA research and inception and

3. DFA main work and validation phase,

4. DFA finalization and follow up including Roadmap for strengthening an INFF in Egypt based on DFA findings

Conceptual framework

Taking the above context into account, the DFA’s general purpose is to assist governments to work towards Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) and mobilize the capacities needed to implement their national development and results frameworks through results oriented, evidence-based policies and sound institutional solutions.

To move ahead on the 2030 Agenda, countries will need to consider their current and future financing frameworfks for delivering the SDGs. This Agenda requires both significant increases in resources as well as changes in the way existing resources are used and prioritized, calling for more effective integrated approaches to managing public and private finance to achieve sustainable development. INFFs can help governments develop a holistic vision of fiscal planning and management that transcends traditional public financial management and identifying incentives to align resources of private nature.

The DFA will:

· Capitalize on the growth-enhancing reforms initiated by the government and tackle the adverse effects of the reforms programme by exploring diversified financing resources.

· Take into account key sources of funding relevant to the Egyptian context (for example remittance transfers, informal sector funding mechanism, banking reform and financial inclusion, etc).

· Establish a greater understanding of, and recommendations on how to enhance, Egypt’s future financing landscape for the successful implementation of its National Plan SDS and beyond.

· Bring the focus on Social Protection systems in Egypt and identify available/existing financing tools supporting social protection schemes (confer ILO Financing Social Protection and World Social Protection Report for pointers on conceptual framing)

· Set out the financial challenges and opportunities ahead in supporting the achievement of the SDGs, and

· Capitalize on South-South expertise in financing Egypt Social Protection systems, and utilizing UNDP global experience and knowledge in carrying out this exercising in Egypt.



[1] On the 16th of December 2015, a presidential decree was issued to form a national committee to follow up on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030

[2] mainstreaming, acceleration and policy support




Duties and Responsibilities

The scope of the DFA work in Egypt is summarized as follows:

i) Mapping and analysis of financing for development flows and their associated policy and institutional frameworks, with a focus on Social protections systems and schemes. Development finance flows will be analysed according to two main categories: by source (domestic/external) and distinguishing them by public or private nature. This analysis will look to assess both quantitative trends in the changing nature of the development finance landscape over the past 10-15 years (depending on publicly available data), as well as provide perspectives of implications on existing policies pertaining to various flows on social protection.

ii) Assessment of national planning and budgeting systems and their results orientation, with particular focus on social protection. The DFA will focus on the potential means to finance the country’s national development priorities. The assessment will seek to identify how priorities have been formulated in the national Four Year Plan (government Plan) at thematic levels, as well as in the Yearly Investment Plan. The DFA will include a particular focus on an assessment of the alignment of national development priorities and targets with financial strategies and allocations. The analysis will include an assessment of the degree to which plans and policies include targets which are costed and the coherence between sector / thematic plans and the Global Goals.

iii) Analysis of policy and institutional options for strengthening the alignment of priority flows with the National Development Plan and the Global Goals. The consultant, in consultation with the support of the Technical Support Team and the Egypt Expert, will identify three or four financing flows for further in-depth analysis, based on their potential to generate financing options for Egypt over the coming years. Initial consultations suggest the following flows for further analysis, to be finalized during the 1st mission:

· Social Impact Investment

· Remittances

· Foreign Direct Investment

· ODA - options for increasing strategic and catalytic use and complementarity with other flows

· Pubic and private social protection scehmes around tax and domestic resources mobilization

· Other sources pertaining to the Egyptian context

iv) Document Egypt’s Integrated National Financing Framework – landscape and on Social Protection for achieving the national development goals and Global Goals. The DFA document the alignment of development finance flows with national priorities and results, with special focus on gender.

As deliverables the DFA will:

· Provide an overview of the evolution of the flows of financing for development and their allocation and contribution to national priorities and results, as expressed in plans and policies at national, sector and sub-national levels (Landscape)

· Document the systems, institutions and policies in place to ensure financing is aligned with Egypt’s national development priorities and the concept of LNOB of the SDGs (Landscape)

· Assess the role of the planning and budgeting process for Social Protection linking both public and private finance with results (Social protection)

· Analyse the interfaces and complementarities between different flows and sources of development finance in contrib

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