The USAID Transform WASH Project, a five year project, is implemented by consortium partners of PSI, SNV, Plan and IRC WASH from Jan 2017 – Dec 2021. The purpose of project is to reduce preventable deaths and illness in Ethiopia due to diarrheal disease, particularly among children under five. Through development and testing of scalable and replicable market-based models, the Transform WASH project will support the Government of Ethiopia to increase use of improved WASH products and services.
The Transform WASH project aims to achieve the following four results by the end of the project period:
1. Increased WASH governance and management capacity at the subnational level;
2. Increased demand for low-cost, high quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation;
3. Increased supply for low-cost, high quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation;
4. Increased knowledge base to bring WASH innovations to scale.
SNV, as part of the USAID Transform WASH Consortium, will lead the capacity building interventions for the sub-national government (Result area 1). SNV will provide targeted capacity building to sub-national government of Ethiopia staff to become effective decision-making entities, capable of managing and sustaining WASH activities, especially around the provision of sanitation services and sanitation marketing where little implementation has been done. SNV will further collaborate with government structures at the kebele, woreda, zonal, regional, and national levels to assess their needs and biggest challenges to implementing One WASH National Program (OWNP) and facilitating sanitation marketing. Through participatory learning approaches that link capacity building, action research, co-creation of tools, IRC and SNV will support the government to operationalize Ethiopia’s strong WASH policies, strategies and guidelines, and improve the decision making by the government using the evidence generated (Result 4). SNV will empower the government too independently lead WASH planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination, and reporting; and manage funding for WASH programs.
As part of the result 1 of the project, SNV planned to provide 15 days training in three rounds on procurement, Contract administration and financial management (PCAFM) for regional, zonal and woreda WASH experts working on the area.
The general objective of PCAFM training is to minimize challenges of WASH project implementation as a result of skills and knowledge gaps on procurement, contract administration and financial management by the implementers through building the capacity of the training participants in the WASH sector.
Specific objectives
Ø To Equip the trainees with basic skill of pre and post contract processes, procurement and management of finance for WASH projects
Ø To introduce the trainees with guidelines and procedures of government in project contracting and purchasing of equipment
Ø To support/coach the trainees in actual contract administration practice in their respective woredas
1. Qualifications
For this consultancy service the following qualifications are expected from STTA:
· Advanced degree in social science preferably in accounting, MBA and economics and knowledge of WASH sector
2. Experiences
At least 10 years of experiences are required on the following areas:
· Familiar with Ethiopia public procurement procedure and system, National WASH Program Operation Manual,
· Contact administration and financial management