Consultancy opportunity: sanitation budget/expenditure tracking in Ethiopia

Published on: 27/11/2023

Background

USAID Transform WASH aims to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) outcomes in Ethiopia by increasing market access to and sustained use of a broader spectrum of affordable WASH products and services, with a substantial focus on sanitation. Transform WASH achieves this by transforming the market for low-cost high quality WASH products and services: stimulating demand at the community level, strengthening supply chains, and improving the enabling environment for a vibrant private market. USAID Transform WASH is a USAID-funded activity implemented by PSI in collaboration with SNV and IRC WASH. The consortium is working closely with government agencies, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Water and Energy, the One WASH National Program Coordination Office, the Ministry of Labor and Skills, and regional and sub-regional governments.

USAID Transform WASH seeks to influence national policy to improve the enabling environment for the implementation of sanitation interventions. One of the objectives is to increase the budget allocated for sanitation. As an initial step, the Transform WASH team plans to establish a solid overview of sanitation budgets and expenditures to allow informed decision-making.

Over the last year, the national WASH financing strategy has been developed revealing some data gaps mainly related to the provision of “access” to sanitation services. The proposed sanitation budget/expenditure tracking exercise is expected to build up on the WASH financing strategy with a specific focus on sanitation and to incorporate expected expenditures for the TSEDU Ethiopia program. Finally, the assessment is expected to highlight current data gaps and recommend improvements to the national finance management system to more reliably track budgets and expenditures for sanitation in Ethiopia. 

Terms of References

Deliverables: PowerPoint slide deck with summary figures for the information listed in the ToR (all supported by a spreadsheet including reference to the raw data used and calculations/allocations applied). Results can be presented as a range if it is not possible to disaggregate all data. All assumptions need to be clearly described and data gaps highlighted. A list of references needs to be prepared and submitted along with the results, highlighting the most important reference documents. All results should be put in context with the national WASH financing strategy and TSEDU program. The timeframe of the assignment is 01/01/2024 to 30/03/2024.

1)       Sanitation budget and expenditures in Ethiopia from 2017 (EY2010) to 2022 (EY2015):

• Estimate of total annual budget and expenditures for sanitation in Ethiopia from all sources (government, development partners/NGOs, private sector, households) and for each of the sanitation chain components grouped into three categories (capture/containment, emptying/transport, treatment/disposal/reuse)
• Estimate of annual budget and expenditures split by:
  • Location: urban and rural
  • Administrative level: national, regional, zonal, district
  • Sanitation type: sewered and non-sewered
  • Cost type: to be defined and agreed (e.g. human resources, infrastructure, direct sanitation subsidies, operation and maintenance)
  • Implementation approaches: to be defined and agreed (e.g. market-based sanitation, health extension program and SBCC/CLTSH, urban WASH/CWIS)
• Estimate of budget utilization rate, and estimate of sanitation budget in relation to the GDP (considering the Ngor declaration to increase budget to 0.5% of the GDP)

 2)       Sanitation budget as per the national WASH financing strategy from 2023 to 2030:

• Annual budget for sanitation included in the national WASH financing strategy and TSEDU program from all sources  and for each of the sanitation chain components.
• Estimate of annual budget and expenditures split by:
  • Location: urban and rural
  • Administrative level: national, regional, zonal, district
  • Sanitation type: sewered and non-sewered
  • Cost type: to be defined and agreed (e.g. human resources, infrastructure, direct sanitation subsidies, operation and maintenance)
  • Implementation approaches: to be defined and agreed (e.g. market-based sanitation, health extension program and SBCC/CLTSH, urban WASH/CWIS)
• Estimate of annual sanitation budget in relation to the GDP.

3)       Recommendations to inform our advocacy work:

• What are the main data gaps? How to improve finance management system to more reliably track budgets and expenditures for sanitation in Ethiopia (in line with the Ngor declaration)?
• How to increase overall funding for sanitation? In particular for direct sanitation subsidies and market-based sanitation? 

 Decision making

 The consultant will report to the Transform WASH team at IRC Ethiopia, and work closely with an international expert to develop the work outputs. The timeframe of the assignment is 01/01/2024 to 30/03/2024. 

The consultant

The following documents need to be submitted by interested individual consultants:

• CV
• Technical proposal: max. three pages on how the consultant would conduct this work
• Financial proposal: budget (note: expected workload of about 20 days)
• One or two sample of technical work actually done by the consultant
• Professional Amharic and English knowledge is a must 

Proposals

Applicants are kindly requested to submit the documents listed above by 12^th December to IRC, attn. Fretsega Girma at girma@ircwash.org. Interviews will be scheduled in the week of 18^th December and the preferred starting date is January 2023. Questions can be directed via email to the attention of Melaku Worku (worku@ircwash.org).

For additional information please visit our website at www.ircwash.org.