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Request for Expression of Interest to Prepare a Fiscal Responsibility Index for Federal MDAs

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  1. Introduction

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) with the support of the European Union Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Project (RoLAC 2) is implementing a program on “Improving the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Processes and Reforms in Nigeria”. The goal of the project is to contribute to increased effectiveness of anti-corruption laws, policies, interventions and strategies for the entrenchment of reforms at national and subnational levels. This would lead to increased compliance with anti-corruption laws. Anti-corruption laws and policies are not an end in themselves but they are expected to lead to systemic change, enhanced compliance and behavioural change in society, making it possible for increased prevention of corruption, corrective action in individual cases, detection and prosecution of offenders and to make more difficult, future breaches of the law.

  1. Background

Nigeria has enacted a Fiscal Responsibility Act applicable at the federal level with states enacting similar laws modelled after the federal legislation. The Fiscal Responsibility Index (FRI) seeks to provide objective analysis and review of implementation of fiscal governance laws and policies across Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government with a view to supporting and facilitating capacity building and improvements in fiscal governance. The thrust of the FRI is to strengthen processes and systems and in the long run guarantee that the proposed benefits of budgets and fiscal policies reach majority of Nigeria’s population. Federal MDAs will be benchmarked and nudged to comply with their fiscal responsibility obligations. Competition is engendered in MDAs in a race to the top for reform compliance.

The FRI is a Nigerian Index designed for Nigerian MDAs. It focuses on key areas of policy-based budgeting, budget comprehensiveness and transparency, budget credibility, budget implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also deals with accounting, reporting and auditing. It is partly a self-assessment exercise that will identify the gaps and facilitate the design of remedial action including capacity building and systemic reforms.

  1. Terms of Reference

CSJ requires a consultant that is knowledgeable in national and international standards, laws and policies on fiscal governance, and related anti-corruption standards. The consultant will carry out desk reviews of Nigeria’s fiscal institutions and standards, and emerging literature and jurisprudence on fiscal governance; prepare, distribute, retrieve and analyse questionnaires from MDAs and stakeholders. It will involve key informant interviews, focused group discussions and a validation meeting. It will also involve the engagement of relevant Committees of the National Assembly. The study will undertake a political economy analysis of fiscal governance, identify and review the different scenarios of action and inaction on fiscal reforms and their implications, do a cost benefit analysis of reforms and end with recommendations for reforms.

  1. Key Deliverables
  • Produce an FRI that ranks federal MDAs in accordance with their performance on the Index 
  1. Timeline

To develop the FRI, the consultant will work with the programme director for twenty-five days on this assignment. 

  1. Professional Experience and Qualification

The Consultant must have not less than 10 years’ experience working in fiscal governance and anti-corruption work.  The Consultant must be able to show proof that he has conducted similar assignments in the past and or demonstrate skills, competence and capacity to undertake the assignment.  

  1. Academic Qualification

A Master’s degree in Economics, Law, Social Sciences or any other discipline related to the task is required. Professional certifications in any related discipline would be an added advantage.

  1. Method of Application

Interested Consultants should send their expression of interest to the following e-mail; csjprocurement@gmail.com alongside their CVs. The EOI should include detailed qualifications (including copies of relevant certificates) and a two-page statement of the Consultants understanding of the assignment and how s\he intends to proceed with the work.

  1. Timeline

EOIs should reach CSJ within seven days from the date of this Request for EOI.

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