| Overview : 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 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 National Development Plan 2020/21-2024/25 (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. Specifically output 1.1.2 aims at strengthening the capacity and role of the development committee in undertaking independent project reviews and appraisals to align the NDP III identified priority areas and programmes as well as projects. Over the last five years, Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has directed efforts towards strengthening Uganda’s Public Investment Management Systems (PIMS) in order to ensure that public investments generate higher returns on investment. In that regard, the Ministry adopted the Public Investment Management Framework for review and approval of projects. The framework emphasizes gradualism in project development and approval process i.e., it introduces four stages of mandatory approval and approval at Concept, Profile, Prefeasibility and Feasibility stages. This ensures that only economically and financially viable projects are approved for financing and investment. In order to control for optimism-bias tendency among entities preparing projects, the Development Committee (DC) was assigned the responsibility of managing the PIMS processes as an independent reviewer under the leadership of the Permanent Secretary/ Secretary to Treasury. Given the multi-dimensional nature of the task assigned to the DC, the Committee was expanded to include membership of the Office of the President, the National Planning Authority, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority, the Ministry of Justice Constitutional Affairs, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The Development Committee is assisted by a Sub Committee with delegated representation from every member of the DC. The Subcommittee undertakes the day-to-day operations of the PIMS process with its Secretariat being the Department of Project Analysis and Public Investments in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The review of the performance of the past NDPs aside from calling for increased investment in the productive sector of the economy, the NDP III calls for the need to revisit the country’s development approach in particular the role of Government in the development process as well as strengthening Public Investment Management to increase the returns on public investment. In light of the above, Government has focused efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Development Committee in executing its role as an independent reviewer of the Public Investment Management System in Uganda so as to align NDP III identified priority areas and programmes as well as projects. OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY The overall objective of this training is to strengthen the capacity and role of development committee to undertake independent project review and appraisal of projects and program’s role in line with the NDP III identified priority areas. These studies will require procurement of National Consultancy Firms that have experience in undertaking consultancy services of a similar nature UNDP Uganda would like to invite a qualified firm to kindly submit their proposals to tenders.kampala@undp.org Bid Deadline: 10th November 2021 | 
