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TERMS OF REFERENCE
UNICEF KIRA
Programme/Project Title:
Social Policy
Consultancy/Services Title:
Development of costing model and resource flow for the
purpose of providing social services at local level
Consultancy Mode:
National
International
Type of Contract :
Consultant
Individual Contractor
Mode of Selection :
Competitive
Single Source
Duration of Contract :
From: 12 June 2017 through 20 May 2018
Institutional
Objective/purpose of the consultancy/services
Development of costing model and resource flow from national to local self- governance level for provision
of social services.
Background
The consultancy is a strategic investment aimed to remove major bottleneck to sound planning and
delivery of social service – absence of coherent and workable costing model and its integration into
planning and budgetary processes, and resource flow. It brings clarity and completes standardisation of
critical aspects of social service provision regardless modality, i.e. intra-budgetary transfers, social
contracting, [programme] budget line and type of service-provides, i.e. state, municipal, NGO/CBO, private
and by individual(s). Service of expert comprises provision of technical assistance to selected local
government (s), to the Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD), Parliamentarian Working Group
and its affiliations tasked to improve overall legislation for sustainable social service system development
with regard to costing, financing, budgeting and auditing. The consultancy contributes to PFM efficiency
via better targeting of resources to the most disadvantaged children and their families, and equips the
government with normative framework allowing moving away from the current inputs-based to a resultbased social service systems.
Scope of work and key tasks
1. Work out of the financing standards’ details against criteria and requirements of labour economics
and related expenses related to payroll, recurrent cost etc.;
2. Develop procedures and work processes for application of per capita normative for social service
planning and budgeting;
3. Based on above, i.e. No 2, elaborate reference guidelines including on budget cycle for respective
social protection specialists, public (central and municipal) servants in charge of organization of
service provision (i) and service provision per se (ii);
4. Participate in the work of the Parliamentarian Working Group on improvement of legislation for
sustainable social service system development within analytical subgroup; provide inputs to
analytical sub-group and lead PFM unit;
5. Elaboration of a social service passport as per standard requirements for the state registry;
6. Develop classification/taxonomy and codification of social services [provided by non-residential
social institutions] and ensure it corresponds to the professional standard set for social worker;
7. Contribute to the testing of the financial and resource flow model with a focus on enhancing linkages
between the work on the financing formula for funding of community based social care services and
the work planned on decentralised governance [to explore the opportunity of modelling the
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establishment of social care services and the modalities of funds transfers within the funding
envelope for the project];
8. While testing, to guide conduction of needs assessment for social service delivery with tailored
capacity building of relevant local government staff to undertake these needs assessments and
budgeting based on costing model;
9. Support MLSD and selected local governments to develop budget proposals based on needs
assessments and standard costs of services;
10. Support national government with processes necessary for the adoption of standard costs of
services and the list of services to be adopted in the national list of functions for national/local
governments – with workable functional assignment;
11. Supporting potential service providers (public and private) to develop service proposals based on
the standard costs of services (to test the market potential of the costing models);
12. Supporting selected local government with necessary issues relating to contracting of nonresidential social services;
13. Review of existing financial recording and reporting documentation required for central and local
service- provision, and corresponding internal audit and Chamber of Accounts’ accountability
requirements, i.e. standards, forms and reports. Provide recommendations for their reconciliation.
Deliverables
1) Workplan, outline and table of content of the reference package – by 30 June, 2017 - 5 % of fee
2) Inputs on PFM for WG and for approbation of financial model with explanatory PPT – by 20 July,
2017 – 20 %
3) Reference package on application – by end September, 2017 – 15 %
4) Codification of social services with explanatory PPT - by end November, 2017 – 15 %
5) Budget proposal by local government and central authority/MLSD with explanatory PPT– by end of
January, 2018 – 20 %
6) Standard budget service proposal – by end March, 2018 – 10 %
7) Report with recommendations for reconciliation of recording and reporting documentation of
internal audit and Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) re social service delivery with PPT – by 10 May,
2018 – 15 %.
Reporting and supervision
The consultant will report to and supervised by Social Policy Specialist with support from
Programme Assistant.
Qualification/level requirements
 Advance Education in economics and finance, PhD level
 Professional experience in economics > 10 years
 Expertise on PFM including on budgeting processes at the central and local levels
 Knowledge of the governmental internal and national audit system
 Knowledge and practical experience in public administration domain
 Knowledge of social policy and social protection system
 Strong analytical skills with advanced computer skills
 Fluency in Russian, Kyrgyz and English languages
 Official membership in Parliamentarian WG is an asset.
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Duty station and official travel involved
Bishkek and regions
Costs for accommodation, meals and incidentals during official travel to other regions of Kyrgyz
Republic shall not exceed applicable daily subsistence allowance (DSA) rates for local consultants/
individual contractors.
Duration 11 months
Source of funding/Grant reference (date of expiration of the Grant):
Non Grant GC till end of 2017 and Thematic SC 149906 from January 1, 2018 till May 20, 2018
Note: In all cases, consultants may only be paid their fees upon satisfactory completion of services. In such
cases where payment of fees is to be made in a lump sum, this may only be payable upon completion of the
services to UNICEF’s satisfaction and certification to that effect, and any advance on the lump sum may not
exceed 30% of the fees. In such cases where payment of fees is to be made in installments, the final
installment may not be less than ten per cent (10%) of the total value of the contract, and will only be payable
upon completion of the services to UNICEF’s satisfaction and certification to that effect.
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