Job: 1 Manual Development on Budget Tracking

Background

AWAZ Foundation Pakistan: Centre for Development Services is running Keep Your Promises on Sanitation (KYPS) campaign at national and provincial level with involvement of community of District Muzafergerh and District Vehari to make government of Pakistan to Keep its promises on sanitation (KYPS) it has made on different international and national forums. The KYPS campaign aims to influence the decision/policy makers to devise the separate budget line for sanitation sector at all levels and to Increase 5% budget allocation for the provision of sustainable sanitation services. The campaign key asks are to ensure at least 20% increase in existing budgetary allocations specifically for poor and marginalized communities and hard to reach / low coverage areas to address equity in sanitation services. The campaign will mobilize more than 200,000 people at grassroots level to create demand on right to sanitation as committed by the government and related stakeholders under SACOSAN and MDGs. For this, different advocacy tools like formation of citizen rights groups in community, Tehsil, District, Province and national level, lobbying, postcards , theatres, one to one meetings, TV & radio talk shows, engaging concerned officials etc will be organized at various levels. 

To aware community regarding budget allocations on sanitation they will be trained on budget tracking specifically allocated for sanitation and for this training a manual will be developed mainly focusing on Budget Tracking.

Scope of Work

AWAZCDS-Pakistan will engage a consultant for this assignment. Consultant will be primarily responsible to develop a manual on “Budget Tracking”.

Time Frame

Sr. # Name of Assignment Number of Days for Consultancy Time Frame
1 Development of a manual on “Budget Tracking” 5 Last week of January, 2014 – 1st  week of Feb, 2014

 Expected Outputs of the Assignment

 Expected output is a training manual on “Budget Tracking”.

 Gender/ SRHR Focused

Facts and figures given in review report should be gender sensitive. Facts and figures should clearly define the number of males/females/transgender/others in the beneficiaries when and where needed.

 Assumptions & Risks

It is assumed that the service provider who undertakes this assignment understands the importance of it and will be committed to the work, and is competent to deliver as required.  It is further assumed that AwazCDS-Pakistan will fully support the service provider. Risks noted herein include the inability of the service provider to meet the deadlines, unforeseen internal and external structural as well as natural aspects that are beyond the control of both parties.

Copyright & Ownership

Said assignments will remain the property of AwazCDS-Pakistan and will not be shared with anyone else before submission to AwazCDS-Pakistan.

Official Language of the Document

Official language of the document will be English and Urdu both.

Deadline for Applications

Last date to apply for this consultancy is February 05, 2014. Please send your expression of interest including cost on hr@awazcds.org.pk along with consultant’s profile