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The objective of the assignment is to provide the contracting authority, INTOSAI and donor-partners with an overview and analysis of peer-to-peer support to supreme audit institutions. The analysis should provide information on this instrument, its strengths and weaknesses so that:

• the P2P landscape and its different models of support can be better understood
• good practices that could be shared and solutions could be identified for the “bottlenecks” to encourage more efficient P2P
• funding and funding modalities of P2P support can improve.

Specific objective

The purpose of the study is to provide an overview over support actions, funding modalities, as well as insights enabling peer-supporting and -recipient SAIs, donors and other stakeholders to strengthen this instrument and its use. Specifically, the study should respond to the following overarching questions:

• What characterizes the existing models of P2P within or without INTOSAI, and what are their strengths and weaknesses (P2P landscape)
• What are the approaches and practices within P2P that lead to actions being considered sustainable, efficient and to add value.
• What are the main constraints which reduce the efficiency of P2P and the reasons behind them.

Qualifications

Expert category:

• Cat. II (>6 years of experience)

Qualifications and skills required:

• One or more experts with a university degree in a relevant subject (eg economics, political science, international relations or law).
• Excellent ability to draft in English for a professional audience with a variety of different levels of knowledge.
• Experience in mapping methods and exercises.
• Good ability to express complex ideas in simple language.
• Good ability to draft in English.

General professional experience:

• International experience of working on development cooperation issues.

Specific professional experience:

• Experience of working in external audit or public financial management or public sector accounting environment.

Language skills:

• Good knowledge of English. Knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish would be an asset.