| Overview : The Local Area Development Programme (LADP) is an initiative being implemented by UNDP and funded by the EU. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen good governance in Iraq by improving delivery of public services, through improved planning and implementation processes at governorate level, resulting in higher budget execution and service delivery, leading towards better sector wide planning, moreover, improved communication and coordination between central and governorate levels, and increased participation of communities in local development. Major issues that hinder local planning, implementation of local plans, and related service delivery in Iraq include: • Lack of a coherent strategic framework for local planning; • Lack of coordination and integration of planning processes; • Poor responsiveness of plans to local needs and lack of accountability to local communities; • Weak capacity for planning, budget execution, monitoring and evaluation; • Poor service delivery and lack of client orientation. In order to ensure sustainability of those efforts and based on request of the Ministry of Planning, the expert will elaborate guidelines for strategic planning to be adopted by the Ministry of planning as the main guiding document for the governorates to develop, review, evaluate and monitor the implementation of their provincial plans and strategies. Important note for email submissions: Please put reference in the subject line along with the title of the consultancy. Further, our system will not accept emails those are more than 5 MB size. If required, segregate your emails to accommodate email data restrictions. For segregate emails please use sequence of emails like Email 1, Email 2 …. in the subject line. For attachment purposes please only use MS Word, Excel, Power Point or PDF formats. Please send your Technical and Financial proposals to IC1.undp.iq@undp.org (only application with complete supporting documents received in IC1.undp.iq@undp.org before or at the closing date of 26 March 2017 will be processed). If you request additional information, please write to ijaz.hussain@undp.org However, any delay in providing such information will not be considered a reason for extending the submission date of your quotation. All/any query regarding the submission of the quotation may be sent prior to the deadline at the e-mail/address mentioned above. | 
