International Consultant for the Revisions of Cambodia’s Provincial CPI Questionnaire and Methodology

Item Description:

The Royal Government of Cambodia has received financial support from the World Bank, specifically from the Trust Fund forfinancing theCambodia Enhancement of Poverty Analysis Capacity Project and intendsto apply part of the proceeds of this grant forservices provided under this assignment.

The main objectives of the project are to strengthen Cambodia’s national statistical system, improve the government’s capacityto produce poverty and inequality level and interpret the indicators, and enhance quality of the collection and production of pricedata in Cambodia. The project has duration of approximately two years, and the implementation agency is the Ministry of Planning(MoP). Members of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) are comprised of technical and administrative staff from both the GeneralDirectorate of Planning (GDP) and National Institute for Statistics (NIS) of MoP.

The EPACP, on behalf of Ministry of Planning (MOP) is responsiblefor procuring consulting services, now invites qualified andexperienced international individual consultants to indicate their interest incarrying out the services as further detail in theTerms of Reference. This is approximately 5 week assignment for an international specialist. The implementation period is fromApril – May 2017.

Interested consultants should provide their experience and qualification indicating that the Consultant possesses the relevantexperience and qualifications to perform the services as follows:

Advanced university degree in statistics or related fields, preferably the doctorate degree
At least 15 years of working experience price statistics
Solid experience in revisions of the price questionnaire and methodology for development of CPI in developing countries
Proven expertise in various statistical software such as Excel, Stata, etc.
Strong analytical skill with practical experiences
Proven training/workshop facilitation and presentation skills
Proven report writing skills
Possess excellent written and oral communication skills in English
The Consultant will be selected based on the method as described in the section V of World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection andEmployment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, published in January 2011, which can be found at http://www.worldbank.org.

The World Bank’s policy requires that consultants provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at all times holdthe client’s interest paramount, without any consideration for future work, andthat in providing advice they avoid conflicts withother assignments and their own corporate interests. Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflictwith their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place them in a position of being unable to carry out theassignment in the best interest of the Borrower. Without limitation on the generality of the foregoing, consultants shall not behired under the circumstances set forth in the WorldBank’s Guidelines above.

Interested consultants may obtain copies of the detailed Terms ofReference (in English) for the assignment from theaddress/email below during office hours from 7:30 to 11:30 and from 14:00 to 17:30 hours, Monday through Friday.
Expression of Interest must be submitted to the address/email below on or before 4th January 2017 (before17:00 hours) indicating the following reference: EPACP/2016/ICS001.

EPACP Project Office
(1st Floor, Building D),
Ministry of Planning
#386 Preah Monivong Blvd,
Boeung Keng Kong 1,
Chamkarmorn,
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia.

Tel No: (855) 012 832 534; (855) 012 830 256.
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