Consultancy for National and Subnational Budget Analysis to Enhance Child-Focused Public Spending (Албания - Тендер #64626988)

Description

UNICEF has now issued a : Request for Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Consultancy for National and Subnational Budget Analysis to Enhance Child-Focused Public Spending. BRIEF BACKGROUND Purpose : To conduct comprehensive analysis of the 2026 national and subnational budgets covering 10 selected districts. The assignment will focus on the health, education, WASH, nutrition, and social and child protection sectors with the aim of informing policy advocacy and enhancing the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness of public spending for children. Objectives OBJECTIVES OF CONSULTANCY The main objective is to conduct in-depth analysis of the 2026 budgetary allocations, both at local and national level, to inform policy and advocacy and enhance the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness of public spending on social services relevant for children. Specific Objectives: • To produce comprehensive budget analysis reports on national and local government budget allocations and expenditures for the health, education, WASH, nutrition, social protection and child protection sectors. • To disseminate the findings of the budget analysis to policymakers and other key stakeholders through presentations, briefs, and dialogue meetings to inform advocacy and decision-making. • To develop user-friendly local authority budget briefs for 10 selected districts, using the 2025 Output-Based Budget (OBB), to promote transparency, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making on social sector expenditure and financing. The assignment will entail an analysis of current budget cycle as well as past allocations and expenditures (3-5 years), looking at comparative trends across sectors and years including their composition, equity, and allocative efficiency. This analysis will cover both government and donor funds (on budget), with possible inclusion of the changing donor landscape (off-budget). IMPORTANT NOTE : This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.