Background and context
The European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative (EUACI) is a joint EU and Government of Denmark programme aimed at assisting Ukraine in reducing corruption at the national and local level through the empowerment of citizens, civil society, businesses and state institutions.
Supporting anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine is a high political priority for the European Union and Denmark. By combating corruption, the program contributes to the consolidation of democracy and economic growth of Ukraine, as well as the successful approximation of Ukraine with the EU.
The transparency, integrity and accountability of Ukraine’s recovery is one of the key topics of the EUACI. The Government of Ukraine, the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine (the Ministry) and the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (the Agency) are the key counterpart of the EUACI in this area.
To support Ukrainian government’s efforts to effectively manage the process of the war-time reconstruction and post-war recovery and to ensure that transparency and integrity considerations are taken into account, the EUACI established the compact Integrity Support Group (ISG) under the Ministry, it consists of long-term high-level consultants and several short-term sectoral experts that are recruited on an ad-hoc basis. The Agency has created Capacity Building Office supported by international organisations and partners to support the Agency in projects implementation and strategic planning and capacity development. Now the Agency is requesting the EUACI to contribute with a Senior Advisor on Integrity and Good Governance to assist the Head of the Agency and being embedded within the Agency.
Objective
To support the Head of the Agency in ensuring the effective implementation of integrity and anti-corruption tools within the agency, provide capacity building and support and facilitate EUACI’s cooperation with the Agency.
Expected deliverables:
- implemented activities, as defined in the scope of work,
- analytical notes, presentations, memos, peer-review of the draft policies and draft regulations as agreed with the Agency and the EUACI,
- interventions during public and working-level meetings, working groups, public event (if needed) to present findings and analysis of the projects and activities implementation,
- participation in thematic events with the Agency and the EUACI,
- written reports on the results of the advisor’s work and developed documents or activities held,
- coordination meeting and processes under the request of the Head of the Agency
- participate in the regular meeting of the EUACI Integrity Reconstruction team,
- providing relevant capacity building activities,
- written reports for the EUACI for the cooperation and mutual projects and activities implemented
- other deliverables as agreed upon with the Agency and the EUACI.
Timeline
The intended commencement date is the date of signature of the contract with the consultant and the period of implementation of the contract will be 9 months, with a start in December 2024, duration of up to 200 working days including up to 8 travel days.
How to apply
The deadline for submitting the proposals is 26 November 2024, 18:00 Kyiv time.
The proposals shall be submitted within the above deadline to [email protected] and [email protected], indicating the subject line “Senior Adviser for Agency”.
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Bidding language: English
Any clarification questions for the bid request should be addressed [email protected], no later than 19 November 2024, 18:00 Kyiv time.
