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Capacity building for territorial stakeholders in the field of investment and sustainable economic development
Despite Peru's socio-economic progress, inequalities between regions remain high. In this context, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) of Peru recognises the need to create appropriate incentives to promote the competitiveness of the territories in a sustainable manner.
GIZ as a Technical Assistance (TA) partner of the MEF has a long experience working together since 2007.
The current GIZ support programme Good Governance for Sustainable Regional Economic Development in Peru has the strategic objective of strengthening partner capacities to improve the institutional framework for sustainable regional economic development in Peru. This GIZ TA phase is geographically concentrated on three regions in Peru. In addition, Output 4 is co-financed by the European Union through the programme "Sustainable Business - A Circular, Inclusive Economy", which promotes measures for the transition to a circular economy.
Specifically, the GIZ Support Programme Good Governance for Sustainable Regional Economic Development in Peru advises the MEF on the following four Outputs (only Output 3 is reflect on this Consultancy):

1. Coordination between key actors for the promotion of regional sustainable economic development is improved.
2. Key instruments to promote regional development in terms of competitiveness, sustainability and gender equality are improved.
3. Application-oriented knowledge in the field of investment project management has been provided to relevant regional actors in sub-national governments.
4. Regional public and private actors are initiating measures to transfer to the circular economy.

Together with GIZ as the Contracting Authority and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)of Peru, the Tenderer will be jointly implementing activities to contribute to improving the application-oriented knowledge of relevant subnational government actors in the field of investment project management.
The overall objective of this tender is to design and implement a capacity building strategy for regional actors involved in the management of investment projects in 3 regions in Peru. In addition, platforms for dialogue will be organised to exchange best practices in order to improve the management of investment projects in terms of competitiveness, sustainability and gender equality. The Consultant is responsible for providing and achieving the following work packages (please consult the respective Terms of Reference (Términos de Referencia, TdR) for detailed explanation and context):

Work Package 1: Capacity building in public investment management for public officials in charge of the national public investment system, as well as for operators managing public investments in the 3 selected regions.
Milestone 1.1: Diagnosis of capacities in each of the 3 regions in parallel
Milestone 1.2: Capacity building strategy designed and validated by GIZ and MEF
Milestone 1.3: Capacity building strategy implemented.
Milestone 1.4: Proposal to improve capacity building processes for investment project operators at sub-national level, validated by GIZ and MEF.
Milestone 1.5: Assessment of the performance of investment project operators at sub-national level

Work Package 2: Dialogue platforms at national and sub-national levels on the management of investment projects with aspects of regional competitiveness, sustainability and gender equality.

Milestone 2.1: Systematisation of good practices for investment project management which will be based on national and international experience.
Milestone 2.2: Practical guide to improve investment project management.
Milestone 2.3: Transfer report of the set of methods, appropriate to the entity responsible for replication

GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

This tender is suited for SME. The adverse selection above is due to a technical problem.

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