Recrutement d’un consultant individuel expérimenté pour la facilitation des retraites des hauts dirigeants du Groupe de la BAD, Côte d’Ivoire

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (REOI)

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

Leadership Retreats

Corporate Human Resources Department

Medium Length Consultancy

Abidjan – Cote d’Ivoire.

1. The African Development Bank hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment : Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior Leadership Retreats ;

3. The services to be provided under the Assignment include all relevant workstreams associated with the assignment as captured in the TORs ;

4. The Corporate Human Resources Department invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to undertake this Assignment (documents, reference to similar services, experience in similar assignments, etc.) ;

5. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Procurement Policy and Procedure for Corporate Consultants Recruitment. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist ;

6. The estimated duration of services is 98 days over a one-year period and the estimated starting date is March 15, 2021 ;

7. Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours: 08:00 GMT – 17:00 GMT, Mondays to Fridays ;

8. Expressions of interest must be received at the address below no later than 24^th February 2021 at 23:59 local time and specifically mentioning “Expression of Interest – Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior Leadership Retreats.

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SHORT LIST :

10. A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria based on their updated resume.

• General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be undertaken (30%) ;

• Similar experience in the area of expertise of the assignment (50%) ;

• Experience with the Bank and/or multilateral development organizations (10%) ;

• Language proficiency (05%) ;

• Knowledge of the African region (05%).

11. For the EOI to be considered, the consultant must be registered in the AfDB DACON Consultant Database. Consultants that wish to submit n EOI but are not registered in the AfDB DACON Consultant Database should register. Please use this link : https://econsultant.afdb.org/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/zdac_wd_login_page

12. If any consultant encounters a problem during registration, contact: [email protected]; copying: [email protected]

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

TERMS OF REFERENCE

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior Leadership

Retreats

1.  OBJECTIVE :

The Office of The President (PCSC) of the African Development Bank Group (“The Bank” or “AfDB”) seeks to engage the services of a consultant to facilitate a retreat for the Bank’s Senior Leadership Group (SLG) to develop a roadmap for accelerating the achievement of the various objectives of the Bank’s current corporate strategy. In particular, the retreat is aimed at enhancing the communications and teamwork of the SLG to effectively deliver as ‘One Bank’ on the various operational priorities of the President’s second mandate (2020-2025) while addressing issues pertaining to workload, accountability and collective productivity.

The facilitator will be responsible for organizing the various sessions out of which a roadmap will be developed and agreed for accelerating the achievement of the various objectives of the Bank’s current corporate strategy. The facilitator will do this utilizing a creative and dynamic approach in order to raise self-awareness and personal effectiveness, build productive working relationships, build mutual trust and understanding and encourage self- reflection.

2. ABOUT THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP :

The AfDB Group is the premier pan-African development institution promoting economic growth and social progress across Africa. Established in 1964, it has 82 member states, including 54 from Africa (Regional Member Countries or ‘RMCs’) and 28 Non-Regional Member Countries from the Americas, Europe, Asia and the greater Middle-East. The Group comprises three entities: The African Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust

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Fund (NTF). The objective of the Bank’s current Ten-Year Strategy (2013-2022) is to assist RMCs achieve more inclusive growth and sustainable development, thereby reducing poverty. The Bank does this by mobilizing resources to deliver financial and technical assistance to support transformative programs and projects across Africa.

In order to sharpen focus of its corporate strategy as well as to ensure greater development impacts, the Bank has identified five strategic, operational priorities (the ‘High 5s’): Light Up and Power Africa; Feed Africa; Industrialize Africa; Integrate Africa and Improve the Quality of Life for the People of Africa. These priorities are aimed at accelerating Bank support for the RMCs accelerate progress towards the attainment of (i) the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); (ii) the African Union’s Agenda 2063; and (iii) the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. The High5s have taken hold on the continent as key accelerators for Africa’s development.

2. THE LARGER CONTEXT FOR THE CONSULTANCY :

During the President’s first mandate (2015-2020), the Bank implemented the High 5s with speed and rigor to deliver impressive results. It doubled its lending to the African Development Bank (ADB) countries (mostly middle-income RMCs), and increased 17-fold the value of its concessional financing to African Development Fund (ADF) countries (mostly, the least developed countries on the continent). Similarly, it increased non-sovereign (i.e., private sector) lending from $1.5 billion in 2015 to $2.1 billion in 2019, with the highest level of $2.5 billion achieved in 2016. In so doing, the Bank is driving significant development impacts on the ground, including job creation, building resilient and sustainable economies in Africa.

To deliver on the bold targets of the High5s, the Bank sought and obtained an unprecedented Seventh General Capital Increase (GCI-7) of $115 billion (representing 125% increase) and an African Development Fund (ADF-15) replenishment of $7.6 billion in 2019 (up 32% from the previous cycle).

Following the President’s re-election for a second term (2020-2025), the Bank is strengthening its institutional mechanisms to enhance coherence and build synergies in the execution of its High-5 operational priorities’ work programs, as well as the implementation of various flagship initiatives under the High 5s, to ensure strategic alignment with policy commitments under GCI-7 and ADF-15.

The President of the Bank has outlined his vision to effectively position the Bank over the next 5-10 years as Africa’s partner of choice by leveraging the Bank’s AAA rating and deploying a suite of innovative instruments to mobilize increased funding to accelerate Africa’s development. Part of that vision includes enhanced policy dialogue to support RMCs build resilience to address unanticipated exogenous shocks (such as COVID-19) as well as both long-standing and emerging development challenges, including the substantial infrastructure deficit, ineffective economic governance, challenging private sector development environments, climate change, and inequality across gender, geography and income.

The ongoing COVID19 pandemic has exposed the continent’s vulnerabilities, meaning that priority should be enabling the Bank Group’s RMCs build back boldly and smartly, and with

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior greater emphasis on the quality of growth. Urgent attention will focus on assisting the Bank’s RMCs to build economic resilience, improve quality infrastructure, foster greater regional integration, promote gender equality, reduce youth unemployment, promote sustainable environmental management, as well as support climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Bank is also exploring how it can assist RMCs to (i) build manufacturing capacity; (ii) develop agro-industrial and regional value chains; (iii) support quality health infrastructure; and (iv) strengthen financial markets to support the expansion of intra-regional trade and boost competitiveness by leveraging the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Strengthened partnerships with other development partners, the private sector and civil society will be necessary to achieve these objectives.

In this regard, the Bank’s senior leadership also seeks to reflect deeply on how to collectively increase the Bank’s development impact and improve its organizational efficiency through the consolidation of the ‘Delivering as One’ model, which seeks to ensure that regions, sectors and operational support staff operate seamlessly as One Bank. The ‘Delivering as One’ model is the culmination of structural reforms introduced in 2016 as part of a new Development and Business Delivery Model (DBDM) that changed the Bank’s structure and operating model with the objective of increasing the Bank’s proximity to clients and improving its cost-efficiency and its development impact. Since 2016, the Bank has implemented the key structural reforms required by the DBDM. It has established five Business Delivery Units each headed by a Director General. The Business Delivery Units have been resourced with sector staff and administrative and executional capabilities. In addition to the regional restructuring, the Bank has reconfigured the four sector Complexes and has made structural changes at HQ so that it can operate more effectively and reduce its costs.

3. THE CONSULTANCY :

The Consultant will facilitate a series of retreats of the Senior Leadership Group to brainstorm and reflect on innovative ways of scaling up of Bank delivery on the High 5s and on preparing a Roadmap/Action plan to implement the decisions of the Retreat, detailing key activities and milestones that will leverage the Bank’s brand value, knowledge and resources to accelerate delivery of support to RMCs. Since strategic repositioning will require sharp focus on execution, the Consultant will assist the SLG to prepare monitorable action plans to implement and execute on all agreed actions.

Duties and Responsibilities :

Reporting to the President through his designated representative and working with the SLG and a Core Working Group, the Consultant is expected to be available and at the full disposal of the Bank for the duration of the assignment. The Consultant must have skills in corporate strategic management, performance monitoring and reporting, and is expected to interact and work with various Bank teams in the execution of the assignment.

The consultant will work closely with the Senior Leadership Group and Core Working Group in preparing for the retreat. The Consultant will be expected to also actively seek the inputs from the Senior Leadership Group, the President’s cabinet as well as various Bank teams, as relevant, in

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

order to ensure that the retreat reflects best methods for engagement and empowerment of the Senior Leadership Group.

Scope of Work :

The assignment includes preparatory work, facilitation during the retreat, and follow-up post-retreat. The facilitator is expected to follow an agreed timetable to ensure the on-time delivery of the expected outputs.

The following tasks are assigned :

1. Conducting preparatory meetings with the President’s cabinet and other Bank Senior Management (1 day) ;
2. Developing retreat agenda, including team building exercises etc. with Bank Senior Management (14 days) ;
3. Developing presentations as necessary for the various sessions of the retreat (1 day) ;
4. Facilitating the first Bank Senior Leadership retreat (2 days) ;
5. Preparing the final report, detailing agreements, and outcomes of the Bank Senior Leadership retreat (2 days) ;
6. Planning, coordinating, monitoring organization, implementation of agreed Action Plan and rendering any other on-call business (78 days) for the duration of the contract ;
7. The entire assignment will not exceed 98 days.

Expected Retreat Outcomes :

By the end of the retreat, participants will have :

1. A shared understanding of the President’s strategic priorities during his second mandate, including building a stronger institution, strengthening the Bank’s human capacity, enhancing institutional effectiveness, ensuring accelerated and quality impact, and maintaining the Bank’s financial sustainability  ;

2. A shared and strengthened understanding of roles and responsibilities under the ‘Delivering as One’ Bank approach in advancing the implementation of the High-5s as well as the various cross-cutting themes and special initiatives to ensure accelerated results and greater development impact ;

3. A shared understanding of, and agreement on the various associated milestones, KPIs/metrics for delivering on the Bank’s strategic priorities, including policy and institutional reforms under GCI-7 and ADF-15.

Follow-Up Actions, post-Retreat :

The Consultant is also expected to synthesize lessons from the retreat, prepare a final report, detailing agreements, and outcomes of the retreat, and subsequently plan, coordinate, and monitor the implementation of the agreed Action Plan.

The Consultant’s report will also facilitate three (03) other Quarterly Retreats of Senior Leadership

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

Group to: review progress on implementation of the Action Plan, take stock of opportunities and emerging challenges, and agree on adjustments to the work plan where necessary.

4. DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACTIVITY SCHEDULE :

The assignment will last for one year, starting March 15, 2021. Summarized below is the Consultant’s tentative main activities.

5. LOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT :

The services will be rendered at the Bank’s Headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, virtually or as might be decided by Senior Management.

6. QUALIFICATION OF CONSULTANTS TEAM MEMBERS :

Individuals that express interest in this assignment must have :

• At least a Master’s degree in Economics, Business, Public Finance, Public Administration, Organizational Behavior, or other fields related to the tasks to be performed under this assignment. Additional academic qualifications in leadership studies is desired ;
• Diverse and extensive experience on African development issues ;
• Deep understanding of multilateral development banks ;
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in executive leadership training, coaching and development, preferably in an international environment ;
• Extensive experience in designing and facilitating executive leadership retreats especially for senior leaders in the public sector and in international development organizations.

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

• Vast experience in guiding senior leaders in undertaking transformative organizational change ;
• Experience in facilitating corporate strategic planning and development of strategy documents for international organizations ;
• Demonstrated skills in consensus-building among multiple partners around complex and sensitive issues, and in identifying innovative solutions to complex and systemic challenges ;
• Excellent English language skills; French ability a plus ;
• Excellent facilitation skills, experience in facilitating leadership group work, brainstorming sessions in multicultural teams ;
• Capacity to work in both English and French languages will be an advantage.

8. SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST :

Documents to be included when submitting the EOI. Interested consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications :

• A suitability statement (approx. 2-3 pages) providing a brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work ;
• A draft agenda for the first retreat.

Most recent CV demonstrating experience in similar assignment

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior

Experienced Individual Consultant for Facilitation of AfDB Group Senior