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The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute

P.O. Box 2692 code 1250, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tel: 2511 5

153262/65. Fax.2511 5 15 07 63;

Email: contacthespi@hespi.org ; Website: www.hespi.org 

CALL FOR A CONSULTANCY SERVICETO DEVELOP AN

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARDING POLICY FOR HESPI

The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) is a regional policy research and capacity building organization based in Addis Ababa. One of HESPI’s key priority thematic areas is Climate Change/Climate Adaptation, where it engages in generating knowledge and reliable field evidences on practices and perspectives of climate adaptation. This is more so in recent years, especially following the initiation of its SALCA program. Besides, the Institute upholds its fundamental ethical guideline of “do no harm” principle to the natural environment and social system/people with all its programmatic interventions.

HESPI is seeking for a qualified and experienced environmental safeguarding consultant who can effectively provide the deliverables of this key policy document development. The document will be designed and developed in such a way tohelp HESPI to (i) Screen environmental and social risks (ESRs) of its interventions in the IGAD region (ii) Assess the ESRS (iii) Develop environmental and social safeguards plan (iv) Create reporting, M&E framework of the ESRs.

HESPI would like to procure technical proposal indicating the individual profile including past and current performance of similar services, training and professional experience of the individual applying to handle this assignment, technical approach and methodology to be employed and timeliness, as well as the financial proposal.

HESPI will accept proposals from bidders that provide best value and satisfy the requirements stipulated in the solicitation. All the submitted proposals will be evaluated against the set technical and financial evaluation criteria and the selected individual consultant will be contacted.

Complete proposals must be addressed to contacthespi@hespi.org  with a copy to sofia.sani@hespi.org , and send electronically in 15 days’ time from the date of advertisement of this call on local newspaper. Full TOR for the assignment is available at www.hespi.org/Announcement/Consultancy