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Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
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The Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) is an advisory organ of the African Union, established during the third Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2004 under the provisions of articles 5 (i) and 22 of the AU Constitutive Act. The organ is mandated to actively engage civil society in the processes and work of the Union, particularly with regards to Africa’s integration and development. ECOSOCC comprises various social, private sector and professional groups of member states of the union, and the African diaspora (Assembly/AU/ Dec.48 (III)) and functions primarily as a bridge through which the African Union can partner and engage with civil society organizations on the continent.
ECOSOCC’s mandate includes:
The roll-out of the SAP ERP Financial and Controlling module (FI/CO) for ECOSOCC was completed in December 2021 and the financial transaction for the F/Y 2021 migrated from the manual system to the SAP system. Best practice requires segregation of roles in transaction processing to achieve a satisfactory level of internal controls. It is against this backdrop that this consultancy is necessitated to mainly render support in transaction processing and Financial Management pending the recruitment of substantive staff under the approved organization structure for ECOSOCC.
The objective of the assignment is render support in transaction processing, accounting and overall financial management in line with the International Public sector accounting standards (IPSAS). To achieve this objective, ECOSOC wishes to engage the services of individual competent consultant(s) to render the support services.
The expected scope of service and tasks are as follows;
The deliverables for this engagement will include:
The duration of the contract shall be executed 6 (six) months.
1.1. Key Qualifications and Skills
1.2. Evaluation and Qualification Criteria
For evaluation of the expressions of interest the following criteria will be applied:
Interested candidates are requested to submit the following documents for ECOSOC
consideration: -
The assignment will be 100% based in Lusaka. The consultant is therefore required to work and live in Lusaka.
In any eventuality, that the Secretariat feels the consultant works virtually, this will be communicated and agreed prior. For consultants based out of Zambia and are required to travel, an economy class travel ticket will be covered by the Secretariat in accordance with AU rules and regulations.
Consultants that meet the requirements should submit expression of interest, which should include the following:
Please submit your expression of interest to the above requirements by 30th June 2022, to ecosocc@africa-union.org
Supply Chain Management Division Operations Support Services Directorate
African Union Procurement Manual, version 2.0, July 2016
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.