Terms of Reference

Consultancy for preparing Physical Audit reports of Public Sector Development Project

About CPDI

The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) is an independent, non-partisan and a not-for-profit civil society organization working on issues of peace and development in Pakistan. It is registered under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984 (XLVII of 1984). It seeks to inform and influence public policies and civil society initiatives through research - based advocacy and capacity building to promote citizenship, build peace, improve governance, and achieve inclusive and sustainable development. Areas of special sectoral focus include promoting peace and tolerance, police reforms, right to information, strong local governments, climate change and mitigation, transparency in governance, democratic values, rule of law, accountable governance in the country and public health initiatives.

About the Assignment

1.        Background

The assignment is under Citizens for Good Governance project, which is being jointly implemented by CPDI and Individualland in KP and Punjab province. This project is led by the CPDI, whereas the partners include Individualland (IL). Both CPDI and IL are leading civil society organizations with distinguished track record of working for good governance and democratic development with special focus on local governance, right to information, media development, elections and legislative development. Our new Citizens for Good Governance project aims to strengthen the ability of civil society organizations, journalists, social media activists and citizens for promoting efficient, transparent, responsive and accountable local governments in Pakistan. The project is in implementation phase at two provinces KP and Punjab.

2.        Scope of work

• To build the Capacity of CSOs to conduct physical audit of development projects in education, health, water supply and sanitation department through one day refresher session.
• To organize the data collected by CSOs through comprehensive checklist and forms that focal persons from CSOs can fill during their field visits.
• To compile district wise physical audit reports.
• Any other task assigned by the Project Manager.

3.        Deliverable

The consultant will be responsible for the following:

In case of any other priority task which is not listed in the table above, the Project Manager will intimate the consultant for the required task in writing.

4.        Required Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with at least five years of experience on government building as contractor/consultant/supervisor.
• Have capacity to deliver session on physical audit.
• Prior experience of research, analysis and report preparation.

5.        Reporting:

Project Manager & Executive Director CPDI