| Overview : REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL MT. ELGON TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT STUDY Background The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uganda is supporting the Government of Uganda through the Uganda-UN Joint Programme titled “Integrating policy and financing for accelerated progress on SDGs in Uganda” to develop an Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) in line with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) for financing the SDGs. The two-year (2020-2022) Joint Programme (JP) is being implemented by Government of Uganda and three UN Agencies —UNDP, UNCDF and UN WOMEN under the technical leadership of UNDP and overall leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator (RC). The Joint Programme aims at supporting Government of Uganda’s efforts to enhance the implementation of SDGs through aligning planning, policies and financing; ensuring effective public finance management; enhancing domestic resource mobilization and alignment of private flows with national priorities; and enhancing accountability mechanisms. The SDG Fund project is premised on two outcomes and 4 outputs. Outcome 1: National and sub national planning, budgeting, policy functions, processes, systems and finance are integrated to deliver national priorities and respond to the needs of most at vulnerable groups of people has three outputs: Output 1.1: The governance mechanisms and tools that align policies and annual budget to the national development plan are strengthened; Output 1.2: Institutional frameworks to support effective public finance management and integrated financing reinforced; and Output 1.3: The capacity of oversight institutions, legislative organs and citizens especially inclusion of the most vulnerable groups to monitor progress towards national priorities and SDG strengthened. Outcome2: Diverse sources of development finance mobilized to implement interventions contained in the NDP III and District Development Plans (DDPs), has two outputs namely: Output 2.1: Enabling environment created to attract private and innovative financing to national priorities; and Output 2.2: Increased mobilization and contribution of Local Government (two selected DINU LGs) own-source revenue towards SDGs implementation. To this end, UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development intend to conduct pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of the Mt. Elgon Tourism Infrastructure Project, which will contribute towards enhancing the potential of the tourism sector in Uganda. In addition, UNDP in collaboration with the National Planning Authority (NPA) intend to conduct a Feasibility Study on Livestock Vaccines Manufacturing and Commercialization in Uganda, which will contribute to the implementation of the strategic intervention of strengthening systems for management of vectors, pests and diseases under NDP III objective one of increasing agricultural production and productivity. These studies will require procurement of National Consultancy Firms that have experience in undertaking feasibility studies of a similar nature. To submit proposals and other related documents, Email to tenders.kampala@undp.org no later than Sunday, September 19, 2021 and, at 23:59 hours (East African Standard Time). For additional information, please contact ug.procurement@undp.org. | 
