The USAID Municipal Support Program (USAID MSP) is a five-year program supported by USAID/Jordan, awarded in August 2022, and implemented by DAI Global LLC. The overall goal of USAID MSP is to strengthen municipal-sector service delivery and promote Local Economic Development (LED) in Jordan. The USAID MSP team will achieve this goal through the following interventions: Outcome 1: Inclusive local administration strengthened, and Outcome 2: Capital investment for municipalities increased.
USAID MSP utilizes approaches that address structural issues, systems, processes, interrelationships, behavior, and organizational culture change. USAID MSP aims to strengthen municipal-sector service delivery by supporting improved governance and organizational culture across three interventions: key policy and service delivery reforms, municipal sector public financial management, and community engagement.
The program will support increased capital investment in Jordan’s municipal sector with the goal of catalyzing local economic opportunities and strengthening service delivery by supporting improved development planning, facilitating investor partnerships, increasing access to finance, and supporting renovation and construction of fixed assets including the provision of material resources. Foundational to these efforts, USAID MSP will leverage and institutionalize the participation of marginalized groups, including women, youth, and persons with disabilities, in municipal-level decision-making. Participatory planning will improve marginalized groups’ access to public services and increase their economic opportunities. USAID MSP will work across all of Jordan’s governates.
Outcome 2 under USAID MSP aims to facilitate more investment in needed capital investment projects, the key two intermediate results under USAID MSP’s Outcome 2 are: IR 2.1 Municipal Sector Development and Investment Planning Improved, and IR 2.2 Municipal Access to Finance and Private Sector Partnerships Increased, where USAID MSP will facilitate more investment in needed capital investment projects in principal partner municipalities (PPMs) and associate partner municipalities (APMs) by strengthening the municipal sector’s systems for identifying and planning investments. This includes procuring and implementing the investments, mobilizing domestic resources, incentivizing private sector partnerships that could be utilized to improve municipal services, reduce costs, generate revenues for the GOJ and municipalities, and create economic opportunities in communities, especially for women, youth, and people with disabilities.
The objective of this assignment is to support three selected municipalities by USAID MSP in developing investment and marketing plans to seek financing for key projects and opportunities identified by Local Development Plans (LDP). The plans should formulate realistic development and investment vision statements, strategic objectives, and must ensure linkage with any current strategic development plans that reflect the long-term goals of national development policy for the municipal sector. The plans must incorporate benchmarks to advance gender equality, social inclusion, and actions to respond to and plan for climate change. The plans must provide stakeholders with an action plan to monitor the implementation and performance of them.
This assignment aims to provide support to municipalities in the development of investment and marketing plans by helping them assess their fiscal capacity, estimate future revenues and operating expenditures, and the amount of funds available to transfer reserves.
The investment plans should be coupled with marketing plans to attract investment and advance economic growth through identifying the municipality’s competitive advantage, differentiators, sectors to facilitate investment, define target markets, and deploy municipal marketing campaigns and activities to attract investment. Also, the investment and marketing plans should be anchored in economic and social analyses, demonstrating financial returns and potential for development impact. Both sets of metrics will be critical for impact-oriented investors, including development finance actors, and for building buy-in among local communities.
The investment and marketing plans will formulate realistic actions and consider the distinct approaches needed to successfully attract and promote investment from GOJ entities, donors, international organizations, and private sector entities or investors. The plans will demonstrate mutual benefits to all parties by articulating a potential project’s value proposition and/or economic benefits, such as economic internal rate of return and economic net present value.
The consultant will adopt a “hands-on” approach of transferring knowledge, experience, tools, and understanding to enable the municipalities to develop their own capital and investment plans independently in the future. The consultant will work closely with the municipalities to ensure that they fully understand the process of developing investment plans and that they have the necessary skills and resources to undertake the task on their own in the future. In addition to providing technical assistance, the consultant will also offer guidance and recommendations to the municipalities to help them make informed decisions throughout the development process.
The consultant will work in close consultation with Outcome 2 Capital Investment Lead, USAID MSP Chief of Party, and Deputy Chief of Party. The consultant is expected to work closely with USAID MSP and selected municipalities and any other stakeholders as may be required during the assignment. The Consultant shall be expected to carry out the services described but will not be limited to them.
No. | Deliverable | Timeline | Language |
1 |
| 2 Week from inception of work | Arabic |
2 |
| 6 Weeks from inception of work | Arabic |
3 |
| 12 Weeks from inception of work | English & Arabic languages |
4 |
| 15 Weeks from inception of work | English & Arabic languages |
5 |
| 17 Weeks from inception of work |
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The assignment has an expected duration of 17 weeks as per the above schedule. The consultant is expected to work on the capital investment and marketing plans with USAID MSP during the period of performance referred to above. The total LOEs for performing duties, responsibilities and deliverables under sections C and D for this activity has a ceiling of 60 days. The ceiling is set as a guideline and any changes per assessed project are subject to agreement with the USAID MSP.
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