Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) is a German federal enterprise in international cooperation for sustainable development. We work for our clients and together with our partners on more than 1,500 ongoing projects in around 120 countries. GIZ employs over 20,000 people worldwide. Of these, more than 4,000 work in Germany.
The promotion and dissemination of digitisation is a development policy goal in its own right, which the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is pursuing in a special way together with its partners. On behalf of the BMZ, GIZ is implementing a lot of different digital solutions in various sectoral and global projects united in the department GloBe. In addition to the BMZ Digital Transformation Centres operating worldwide, these include a wide range of projects. In line with the needs and potentials of the partners, these projects support local capacities to shape the digital transformation themselves.
With this tender we look for a team of Experts in the area of: Open data and data sharing.
The general task of the consultant will be to support the GIZ and its partners in better understanding the data ecosystem in Africa and in a targeted number of partner countries. The consultant will need to deliver detailed analyses, policy proposals and closely work together with GIZ staff in providing advisory services to national governments and private stakeholders in all matters related to open government data and data sharing initiatives and agreements. With its expertise, the consultant is required to support in achieving the objective of creating local economic value from data in partner countries.
The following services will be provided by the consultant:
- Performing studies and analysis
- Mapping the open data, B2G and B2B ecosystem in partner countries
- Performing studies and legislative analysis, e.g. of existing data protection legislation
- Preparing policy recommendations to GIZ and government staff
- Present a list of priority sectors and countries that GIZ should engage in digitalizing, making open data available and facilitation data sharing agreements
- Provide policy advice to partners, in particular from governments
- Providing expertise and supporting the process of developing national and regional data strategies
- Developing data sharing use-cases on specific sectors such as agriculture, finance, public sector, health, etc.
- Developing national and regional data governance models
- Developing project proposals
- Develop concept notes and case studies on open data and data sharing use cases
- Develop project proposals for implementation in partner countries
- Commissioning and controlling
- Conduct design thinking workshops, strategic capacity building
- Review and update or co-draft open data and data sharing strategies
- Conduct capacity-building seminars on specific subsectors and focus areas Assist in the preparation and facilitation of high-level events
- Ensure implementation of gender mainstreaming guidelines by assessing the implications for men and women of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.