10022598-Short-Term Expert Pools to support negotiations and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has issued a tender for 10022598-Short-Term Expert Pools to support negotiations and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). It is published as a services under the open method. It applies to Ghana. It was published on 2026-08-21 and closes on 2026-09-17. The reference is 580157-2026. The notice was published by Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).
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Germany – Business development consultancy services – 10022598-Short-Term Expert Pools to support negotiations and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Overview
The GIZ implemented project 'Support to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) II' seeks to improve framework conditions for the realization of the AfCFTA. The project supports the African Union, Regional Economic Communities, and Member States in the coordination of AfCFTA implementation. The consulting firm will provide technical experts to support the implementation of the AfCFTA at the continental, regional, and national level.
Scope of Work
The project seeks the services of a consulting firm to provide technical experts under different short-term expert (STE) pools, which can be deployed flexibly according to the specific demands of the project. The Contractor will contribute to the implementation of all BMZ and EU outputs of the project. The overall goal of this assignment is to support the implementation of the AfCFTA at the continental, regional, and national level by providing advisory services and capacity building for governmental as well as private sector and civil society stakeholders. When the need for support to the project"s partners within a particular thematic area is identified, experts shall be mobilised to provide demand-driven technical advisory services and/or capacity building to national, regional, and continental government partners and/or the project itself. The contract is for the provision of pools of qualified STE to cover a broad range of issues relating to AfCFTA negotiations and implementation in general and the programme objectives in particular. The services to be provided under the contract include measures for human capacity development and organisational and technical advice in the following thematic areas: - Removing barriers to Trade in Goods, Trade in Services and Digital Trade - Support for further AfCFTA negotiations (among others on Rules of Origin, Trade in Services) - Support for the ratification of the Phase II Protocols (Competition Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Investment, Digital Trade, Women & Youth in Trade) - Implementation of AfCFTA regulations at the national and regional levels - Monitor and review the implementation of AfCFTA Protocols in African Union Member States (AU MS) - Improve access to trade information to relevant line ministries and to the private sector - Support the African private sector to trade under AfCFTA rules on the national and regional level - Support relevant authorities to setup inclusive policies for women & youth traders to participate in trade under AfCFTA The contractor will identify and manage pools of STE that will assist the initiatives in the programme"s areas of intervention. While the project operates Africa-wide, it focuses interventions at national level in 8 countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tunisia, and Zambia. At REC level it focuses at EAC, ECOWAS, and SADC. Intervent
Requirements & Qualifications
The contractor will identify and manage pools of short-term experts that will assist the initiatives in the programme's areas of intervention. The contractor is responsible for supporting the GIZ in defining the required expertise to reach the project objectives, identifying and proposing suitable experts from the STE pool, selecting experts together with the GIZ team, and managing the deployment of experts. The contractor is required to support the provision of support services to the project as well as to partner institutions at the continental, regional and national level under all the work packages.