Objective and Purpose of the Assignment
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is currently working on the preparation of the Uzbekistan country profile to be included in the next release of its Public-Private Partnership Monitor (the PPP Monitor).
The first edition of the PPP Monitor was released by ADB in 2017. It covered seven developing member countries of ADB (DMC). Since then, the PPP Monitor has been updated and expanded to cover a larger number of DMCs. The purpose of the PPP Monitor is to track the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in each country covered. Digital copies of the PPP Monitor are available online, for free, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (CC BY 3.0 IGO) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/.
Each country profile of the PPP Monitor covers the following aspects:
In addition to the PPP Monitor, ADB needs to develop a PPP Roadmap for Uzbekistan. This internal document is meant to build upon the PPP diagnostic assessment undertaken through the PPP Monitor and map out how best ADB can identify and roll out various PPP interventions. The PPP Roadmap and the broader private sector participation roadmap (PSP) are expected to form an integral part of the next country partnership strategy (CPS) between Uzbekistan and ADB. Interventions to be covered in PPP Roadmaps typically include:
PPP Roadmaps also discuss financial sector interventions to attract (domestic and international) private sector participation, whether general or sector specific.
A first rough draft of PPP Monitor’s Uzbekistan PPP country profile has already been prepared by a consulting firm and needs to be reviewed, updated and expanded, as need be. The PPP Roadmap for Uzbekistan will need to be developed based on the outputs of the finalized PPP Monitor and will require the consultant to support workshops with ADB sector leads to ensure alignment between the PPP Roadmap and existing sector assessments and planned interventions of the sovereign teams and Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD).
The preparation and finalization of these two documents are placed under the responsibility of ADB’s PPP Thematic Group (PPP TG) and require close coordination with ADB’s Central and West Asia Regional Department and its sector leads, ADB’s Uzbekistan Resident Mission (URM), ADB’s Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP) and other ADB units, as the case may be (together, the ADB Stakeholders).
To facilitate the preparation of these documents, ADB is hiring an international consultant, on an individual basis, who will provide technical assistance (TA) as set out below.
The key objective of the TA is the successful finalization of the PPP Monitor (subject to receiving government comments in due course) and the development of the PPP Roadmap, ensuring that these documents cover all aspects and interventions noted above.
The individual consultant will be located in their country of residence and will work from home to complete the TA whilst being able to be based in Tashkent to engage government and ADB stakeholders, as required.
Scope of Work
The individual consultant will:
The consultant will have his/her own basic equipment and software (e.g., computers, office, and internet software).
Detailed Tasks and/or Expected Output
Redraft of the PPP Monitor and development of the PPP Roadmap, based on comments made by the ADB Stakeholders and government counterparts.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum General Experience 7 Years
Minimum Specific Experience (relevant to assignment) 7 Years
Project Officer Sanjay Grover
Designation Senior Public-Private Partnership Specialist
Asian Development Bank
Email sgrover@adb.org
Contact Person for Inquiries Kin W. Chan
Designation Public-Private Partnership Specialist
Asian Development Bank
Email kwchan@adb.org