Recruitment of an individual consultant for the mid-term review of the HISWACA project

REPUBLIC OF CONGO Unit - Work - Progress MINISTRY OF THE ECONOMY, PLAN, STATISTICS AND FORESIGHT HARMONIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF STATISTICS IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA PROJECT - PROJECT SERIES N°2 (HISWACA - SOP 2) PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT NOTICE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST N° 098/HISWACA/2026 RECRUITMENT AN INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT IN CHARGE OF THE EVALUATION MID-TERM OF THE HISWACA SOP-2 PROJECT 1. The Government of the Republic of Congo has received additional funding from the International Development Association (IDA) for the implementation of the activities of the “Project for the Harmonization and Improvement of Statistics in West and Central Africa (HISWACA)”, and intends to use part of the amount of this funding to make payments under the following contract : “Recruitment of an international consultant responsible for the mid-term evaluation of the HISWACA SOP-2 project”. 2. The general objective of the mission is to identify the internal strengths and weaknesses of the project, those due to its own organization and its institutional environment. To this end, the mid-term review should make it possible to: (i) take stock of the progress of the implementation of the HISWACA project; (ii) learn lessons from this implementation; and (iii) propose adjustments, based on these lessons, if necessary, for the project to achieve its objectives. More specifically, this will involve: Examination of the conditions for implementing the project, due to its innovative nature (start-up, choice of fiduciary agency, recruitment of specialists, prioritization of activities, autonomy, etc.); Assessment of the institutional arrangement of the project, accompanied by appropriate recommendations; Evaluation of the level of ownership of the project by the beneficiary institutions (National Institute of Statistics and its decentralized structures, statistical services of sectoral ministries, Center n