Senior advisor embedded to the Ethiopian PPP Unit
Technical assistance program to support the economic reforms in Ethiopia. Overall project Expertise France is the French public agency for international technical assistance. It aims at contributing to sustainable development based on solidarity and inclusiveness, mainly through enhancing the quality of public policies within the partner countries. Expertise France designs and implements cooperation projects addressing skills transfers between professionals. The agency also develops integrated offers, assembling public and private expertise in order to respond to the partner countries’ needs. At the request of the Federal and Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, a technical assistance program (TA program) has been designed to support the implementation of the Ethiopian second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), especially regarding the public-private partnership (PPP) reforms. The TA program is financed by Agence Française de développement (AFD), the French public development bank. The TA Program is composed of the following three (3) components:
Component 1 – PPP program support The Growth and Transformation Plan highlighted an infrastructure deficit in Ethiopia. Therefore, recommendations have been made to support, encourage and incentivize the private sector to play a role in infrastructures development. Recognizing the potential of such partnerships, the government has adopted a PPP Directive, a PPP Proclamation and a pipeline of PPP projects (focused on energy projects). This PPP legal framework establishes a PPP unit at the Ministry of Finance, also referred to as “Directorate General for PPP (DG for PPP)” to manage the PPP framework in the Country. The PPP TA Program will be conducted by Expertise France who will mobilize a team of experts, respectively based at the PPPDG (Public-private Partnership Directorate General), and at EEP (Ethiopian Electric Power) and tentatively composed of:
This document aims at describing the objective, scope of work, and required skills and experience of the senior PPP advisor embedded to the PPPDG. Assignment The selected expert will be required to provide its support to the PPPDG in order to:
Capacity building is the process of optimizing individuals’ and institutions’ qualifications/ capacities. The selected expert shall promote the reinforcement of the PPPDG’ capacities on a long-term basis. As a result, the selected expert shall involve the PPPDG in all project activities and implement a « learning by doing » method. Indeed, the appropriation of knowledge by the PPPDG is a pillar objective of our approach and will guide the entire implementation of the project. The selected expert will be required to undertake the following tasks: Provide advice and methodological support: The selected expert shall provide advice and disseminate knowledge through the organization of working group or individual sessions within the PPPDG and/or the production of notes for the PPPDG. In this scheme of action, the structure is supported on a daily basis by the selected expert, the availability of the assistance is permanent and the transmission of knowledge is done through an active pedagogy process in order to build skills in professionally realistic situations. In addition, the selected expert share its knowledge and work methods to enable the PPPDG members to roll them out in autonomy. Organize training sessions: The selected expert shall organize various training sessions for the PPPDG.
The selected expert will provide its support to the PPPDG in a day-to-day basis implementing the learning by doing approach exposed at the previous point. The approach we favour is aimed at supporting the beneficiary both at a technical and an organizational level. Therefore, the technical assistance will carry out the activities identified below and may, in the event the PPPDG has seized a request to this effect, support the management of the structure (for example for the realization of organizational charts, job descriptions, tools to help the management of the structure, etc.). Based on the PPPDG duties and responsibilities issued by the PPP proclamation and PPP Directive, the selected expert could be asked to implement the following activities:
Additional information
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Ville | Addis-Ababa |
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Expériences / Formation du candidat |
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Experience | > 10 ans |
Fonctions | Technicien spécialisé, Direction et administration |
Secteurs d’activité | Développement économique et local, Autre |
Pays | Afrique, Ethiopie |
Salaire / Indemnité |
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Comment postuler |
All applications must include the following:
Applications should be sent to nastasia.pousse@expertisefrance.fr before 25 August, 2019, using the following subject: PPPDG-TAPROGRAM. If you do not receive a response within 8 weeks of the application deadline, please consider that your application has not been shortlisted. The process of selection of expressions of interest will occur in two phases:
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Date de fin de validité | 15/09/2019 |