Public expenditure and institutional reviews — Accelerating Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region Project

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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

Country: Multinational

Name of Project: Accelerating Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region Project

Grant No.: P506439

Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for Provision of Technical Assistance on WASH Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews and Strategic Scenario Analysis (PEIR-SSA) to Support Eastern and Southern African Countries

Reference No: 396/AUDA/DITIR/QCBS/2026

Method: Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS)

• Introduction The African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa Development (AUDA-NEPAD) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the “Accelerating Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region Project”, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. “Consultancy Services for Provision of Technical Assistance on WASH Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews and Strategic Scenario Analysis (PEIR-SSA) to Support Eastern and Southern African Countries”

• Description of Services The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Institutional and Political Economy Analysis: Policy, legal and regulatory framework review. Full institutional mandate mapping across all sector actors. Governance and accountability assessment. Structured political economy analysis explicitly addressing constraints at the utility level and how they impede reform, with proposed mitigation pathways. Reform sequencing informed by political feasibility; Public Expenditure Analysis: Five-year minimum baseline covering all financing sources (on-budget, intergovernmental transfers, off-budget donors, utilities' own resources). Assessment of budget alignment with sector goals and targets, Budget execution analysis with identification of systemic causes of execution gaps. Intergovernmental fiscal transfer mapping. Subsidy incidence analysis. Climate finance flows; Strategic Scenario Analysis: Coverage baseline disaggregated by service level, area, and sub-national unit, Minimum three proactive costed scenarios: (1) efficiency gains from the status quo; (2) reallocations within the WASH sector; (3) incremental fiscal expansion. For each scenario: population gaining access, capital and O&M costs, and financing requirements.. Climate resilience costs explicitly incorporated. Financing scenarios matching public and private sources to coverage scenarios. Government consensus workshop for preferred scenario selection. A simulation tool (WSS- SSST) developed by the World Bank can be utilized for this component; National WASH Investment Programme (NWIP): Costed, time-bound NWIP based on the preferred scenario. Covers 0-5, 5-10, and long-term phases. Integrates gender equity, social inclusion, and climate resilience. Includes public expenditure, financing scenarios to bridge the financing gap, institutional, regulatory, and private sector reform recommendations. The plan must be aligned with the Presidential Compact and existing sector investment frameworks to ensure consistency and avoid duplication of efforts. Formal presentation to the ministry required before NWIP is accepted as a deliverable for payment purposes; and Stakeholder Consultation and Knowledge Capitalization: Embedded process throughout the assignment not an end-stage consultation. Structured engagement plan. Inception, scenario consensus, and final national validation workshops. Government ownership and formal adoption of NWIP. Knowledge products: minimum 2 policy briefs (3–5 pages), 2 fact sheets (1–2 pages), 1 interactive expenditure dashboard (updatable annually by government counterparts). All products delivered in country working language with English summaries.

• Level of Effort for Key staff: