| Overview : Ethiopia continues to record double-digit economic growth over the last decade and is ranked among the ten fastest growing economies in Africa (AEO, 2011) and the second fastest mover on human development (UNDP, 2013). Despite these strong gains, there are still huge development challenges the country has to deal with, including overcoming disparities across regional states and social economic groups in order to promote inclusion and participation. Whilst development in the regional states is essentially an integral part of the national development, some regional states and local communities, for instance, are lagging behind on all development indicators, and there is urgent need to stimulate regional economic growth and employment opportunities by ensuring the government and the private sector interventions are optimized, with government playing a key role in stimulating growth and tapping on the existing and potential revenue base to accelerate growth and deliver quality and client-responsive public services. APPLICATION INSTRUCTION: Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto. Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (only at an individual level). DOCUMENTS REQUIRED: Interested and potential National Individual Consultants can download all required documents from the link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=26632 The following proposals must be prepared as per the prescribed standard format accompanied in the Procurement Notice. The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline November 30, 2015 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org Technical Proposal in pdf Financial Proposal in pdf Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size. IMPORTANT NOTE: Failing to submit anyone of the documents stated above will automatically disqualify the candidate from further technical evaluation; Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and financial proposals as per the STANDARD FORMAT and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation. EMAIL SUBJECT LINE WHILE SUBMITTING PROPOSAL: While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is ETH-IC-2015-069 | 
