Germany – Business development consultancy services – 10022598-Short-Term Expert Pools to support negotiations and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

The project seeks the services of a consulting firm to provide technical experts under different short-term expert (STE) pools, which can be deployed flexibly according to the specific demands of the project. The Contractor will contribute to the implementation of all BMZ and EU outputs of the project. The overall goal of this assignment is to support the implementation of the AfCFTA at the continental, regional, and national level by providing advisory services and capacity building for governmental as well as private sector and civil society stakeholders. When the need for support to the project"s partners within a particular thematic area is identified, experts shall be mobilised to provide demand-driven technical advisory services and/or capacity building to national, regional, and continental government partners and/or the project itself. The contract is for the provision of pools of qualified STE to cover a broad range of issues relating to AfCFTA negotiations and implementation in general and the programme objectives in particular. The services to be provided under the contract include measures for human capacity development and organisational and technical advice in the following thematic areas: - Removing barriers to Trade in Goods, Trade in Services and Digital Trade - Support for further AfCFTA negotiations (among others on Rules of Origin, Trade in Services) - Support for the ratification of the Phase II Protocols (Competition Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Investment, Digital Trade, Women & Youth in Trade) - Implementation of AfCFTA regulations at the national and regional levels - Monitor and review the implementation of AfCFTA Protocols in African Union Member States (AU MS) - Improve access to trade information to relevant line ministries and to the private sector - Support the African private sector to trade under AfCFTA rules on the national and regional level - Support relevant authorities to setup inclusive policies for women & youth...