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The Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking to appoint a panel of pre-qualified suppliers to deliver Wealth Creation services under a framework agreement. DFID's absolute commitment to wealth creation and poverty reduction includes empowering girls and women, fighting and coping with climate change, helping recovery from conflict and natural disasters, greater transparency and more use of evidence and independent evaluation. The framework agreement for Wealth Creation services will be a multiple supplier framework designed to enable the procurement of technical assistance for components of DFID bilateral programmes. The geographic scope of the Framework Agreement is global and will include the 28 priority countries in Asia and Africa in which DFID has a bilateral programme. It will include the following lots;Lot A - Economic Policy, Trade and Regional Integration; Lot B - Rural Economic Development, Livelihoods & Natural Resources; Lot C – Infrastructure; Lot D - Financial Sector Development; Lot E - Private Sector Development and Market Development; Lot F - Investment Climate ReformFull details of the services are in the terms of reference. It is anticipated that the framework agreement will begin in November 2012 and operate for an initial 2 year period with the option of 2 further one year extensions subject to ongoing need. DFID will accept bids from consortia for this work.

In order to strengthen the quality of economic research and debate in Zambia, DFID intends providing support to selected think tanks and to the Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ), the main forum for economic debate. The support will take the form of both direct funding to these organisations and short term technical assistance, primarily for economic research and for economic advocacy / communications. The Zambia Economic Advocacy Programme (ZEAP) will run for three years from 2012 to 2016.The objective of the programme is to deliver the outputs of the Zambia Economic Advocacy Programme as set out in the programme log frame. These outputs include (but are not limited to):- Providing management and leadership of the ZEAP- Contract administration, managing direct funding of local think tanks- Monitoring and reporting progress, and- Indentify and management of suitable short term technical experts, providing quality assurance of the technical work.

The ambition for the BSPS IV is to design an M&E system that is sufficiently robust to systematically collect, analyze, report and communicate the progress of the programme throughout the programme implementation. Furthermore, it is the ambition to create a system that allows continuous learning, enabling the programme management to 1) Gain insights that will allow adjustments to improve BSPS IV performance, 2) Use the knowledge to feed into the Tanzanian policy dialogue (e.g GBS dialogue) and 3) provide feedback and lessons to headquarters, embassies and other relevant stakeholders.

DFID is seeking a service provider for a non-traditional and potentially game changing approach to its engagement on education in Pakistan. Tackling Pakistan’s education emergency is the UK’s number one priority. The Transforming Education in Pakistan Programme is ultimately about supporting Pakistani change-agents in politics, media and civil society to ensure the system delivers better quality education, and that parents demand it. The TEP Service Provider will be responsible for: