Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the lead apex institution for community-driven development in the country. Set up by the Government of Pakistan, as an autonomous not-for-profit organization, PPAF enjoys facilitation and support from the Government of Pakistan, The World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), KfWEntwicklungsbank (Development Bank of Germany), Government of Italy and other statutory and corporate donors. PPAF aims to be the catalyst for improving the quality of life, broadening the range of opportunities and socio-economic mainstreaming of the poor and disadvantaged, especially women. The core operating units of the PPAF deliver a range of development interventions at the grassroots/community level through a network of more than 100 Partner Organizations across the country. These include social mobilization, livelihood support, access to credit, infrastructure and energy, health, education and disaster management. Externally commissioned independent studies have demonstrated positive outcomes and impact of PPAF interventions on the lives of benefiting communities related to their economic output, household incomes, assets, agricultural productivity skills and other quality of life indices.
Background
The Italian Development Cooperation (IDC) has entrusted to PPAF €40 million soft-loan for the execution of the Programme for “Poverty Reduction through Rural development in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fata and neighboring districts/ Programme for Poverty Reduction/PPR)”.
The Pakistan-Italy partnership to support beneficiaries rural Communities within the PPAF methodology framework will encompass leading principles of Italy’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), including its adhesion to the Aid Effectiveness agenda (Paris, Accra and Busan), mainstreaming guidelines, local coordination and sharing of responsibility with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Development Partners. Capitalization and appropriation of output results of PPAF and Italian Cooperation portfolio will be a logical scope to pursue, in response to the aforementioned criteria. The Programme funding encompasses untied and tied components: the first for the preparation and execution of all field activities, the latter, worth € 2 million, for the procurement of goods and services of Italian origin. Harmonized and coherent utilization of tied funds will also be part of the technical package adopted for Programme implementation.
The Programme covers 14 districts and 38 Union Councils in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and FATA. The population is approximately 995,000, constituted by 136,000 households, out of which 86,000 HH (63%) are involved directly and indirectly with agriculture/horticulture and livestock, and 12,000 HH (9%) are earning their livelihoods through fisheries. Remaining 38,340 HH (28%) are either employed, self-employed or have established their own small businesses/enterprises. The components covered under the PPR include Social Mobilization, Livelihoods and Enterprise Development/LEP, Construction and improvement of small-scale community-infrastructures/CPI, Health and Education.
Selected local communities, cooperating with a variety of national to local level stakeholders, will be supported to use and manage their resources and capacities in a proactive and sustainable manner, not only to improve their livelihoods, but to also contribute to ecosystem stability, functions and services. Lessons learnt from successful activities will be documented, and widely disseminated to encourage up-scaling in other areas of the country.
The AICS has entrusted to World Bank, via an "Agreement for Advisory Services",as the supervision body for the program including oversight andmonitoring, implementation and compliance of environmental and social management framework and fiduciary (financial management and procurement) control of the Programme, which is carried out on regular basis and through semi-yearly "Implementation Support Missions/ISM".
The PPR unit intends to engage an individual consultant to support the implementation of new activities as per health and nutrition strategy including sensitization and capacity building of PPR, POs and Community. Key elements of nutrition strategy include:
The consultant will also be required to monitor the work of partner organizations and undertake regular monitoring visits to project areas for quality control, review the adequacy of PO implementation arrangements including number, type and capacity of staff and guidance of partner organizations. Design and take corrective actions in case of any challenges and lessons learnt and update and implement nutrition and health component activities accordingly. The consultant will be provided working space and internet access in PPAF for the time frame of the work assignment.
Rationale for the Consultancy
PPR health component is more focused towards preventive health which requires frequent field visit in order to measure behavior change at community level. Similarly establishment of curative health services and innovation needs technical expertise for quality control and technical guideline. Due to limited team members under PPR health component, hiring of a technical consultant will contribute in quality program implementation and in achieving program objectives.
Purpose and Scope of the Consultancy Services
The purpose of consultancy services is to assist the health and nutrition team of PPR for the implementation of project activities. Consultants is expected to do, but not limited to, the following tasks:
Capacity building:
Linkages development:
Sustainability and exit strategy:
We would expect the selected consultant to:
Deliverables
The Consultant will submit 05 (one every two months) reports explaining the details of the performed activities as described in the “scope of work”. These reports must have annexes of reports/documents produced:
Report on Integration with the WSP and CPI component on the effective execution of the ODF activities
Source of funds
Schedule
Duration
Institutional Arrangements and Reporting:
Consultant Qualification
Selection Method
The Consultant will be selected as per the World Bank Procurement Guidelines for Selection of Consultants (January 2011).
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the lead apex institution for community-driven development in the country. Set up by the Government of Pakistan, as an autonomous not-for-profit organization, PPAF enjoys facilitation and support from the Government of Pakistan, The World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), KfWEntwicklungsbank (Development Bank of Germany) and other statutory and corporate donors. PPAF aims to be the catalyst for improving the quality of life, broadening the range of opportunities and socio-economic mainstreaming of the poor and disadvantaged, especially women. The core operating units of the PPAF deliver a range of development interventions at the grassroots/community level through a network of more than 100 Partner Organizations across the country. These include social mobilization, livelihood support, access to credit, infrastructure and energy, health, education and disaster management. Externally commissioned independent studies have demonstrated positive outcomes and impact of PPAF interventions on the lives of benefiting communities related to their economic output, household incomes, assets, agricultural productivity skills and other quality of life indices.