Consultancy to Document Lessons Learnt and Case Studies from the OECS 10th EDF Programme

Detailed description of project Back

The Revised Treaty of Basseterre Establishing the OECS Economic Unionentered into force on January 21, 2011. Within the OECS Economic Union, goods, services, capital and legal and natural persons are expected to move and engage in economic activity without impediment. Additionally, the Revised Treaty makes provision for the harmonization of laws and delegation of legislative competence by Member States to the Organisation, as well as policy convergence, all of which will have a direct impact on the lives and welfare of OECS people.

Activities have been focused on enhancing the institutional capacity of the OECS to stimulate, manage and coordinate, the economic integration process, improving sectoral policy harmonization in the Tourism and Agricultural sectors, boosting the competitiveness and export capacity of the OECS Private Sector, as well as building the sustainable institutional capacity at the OECS Competitiveness Business Unit (CBU) formerly the Export Development Unit.

The overall objective is to continue to promote the OECS Economic Union and the Revised Treaty of Basseterre at all levels, engaging a broad and varied number of OECS nationals.

The specific objective is to promote and build awareness of the OECS agenda towards Regional Integration through generation and documentation of Lessons Learnt and Case Studies.

Type of services provided

• Conducting consultative meetings with identified stakeholders in Member States;
• Reviewing documentation, such as intervention reports, technical assistance plans, consultant reports and other relevant documentation;
• Conducting interviews with collaborating Agencies (IICA, FAO, Caribbean Tourism Association, Caribbean Export Development Agency, Trade Export Promotion Agency Saint Lucia, ILO and National State Colleges);
• Determining the level of interaction and connectivity between the relevant collaborating agencies, SMEs and public sector and how the interventions have impacted them;
• Documenting the recommendations resulting from interviews with stakeholders;
• Collecting comprehensive analysis of the data;
• Creating user friendly documentation on lessons learnt;
• Developing document templates that can be easily replicated;
• Creating the appropriate tool that would appeal to young people such as but not limited to infomercials/short videos or apps; and
• Preparing a Draft and Final Evaluation Report of the approach and substantive findings of the evaluation; including recommendations related to improving the implementation of the final component to the 10th EDF intervention and the subsequent 11th EDF programme.

The services are provided by a team of two experts:

• Management Expert (30 w/d);
• Programme Evaluation Expert (30 w/d).