External Financial Audit of the Project, 2016-2017

Country of project: BURUNDI

Funding source: IDA

*Project: ****Great Lakes Emergency Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Women’s Health***

Title: External Financial Audit of the Project, 2016-2017

Business Sector : Consultants

Project ID No.: P147489

Loan/Credit/Grant No. : IDA Grant H 9790-BI

Contract/Bid No. : 006/EXTERNAL FINANCIAL AUDIT 2016-2017/2016

Deadline: 14th March 2017

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has received financing from the World Bank (The Bank) toward the cost of the Great Lakes Emergency Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Women’s Health Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services for External Financial Audit of the Project financial statements (PFSs), 2016-2017.

The consulting services (“the Services”) is to enable the auditors to express an independent professional opinion on the financial status of the Project as from January 2016 to December 2017 and to ensure that the funds granted to the Project have been used for their intended purposes:

The first audit will be for the financial year ended 2016 (January 2016 - December 2016) to be conducted April - May 2017;
The next audit will be for the financial year ended 2017 (January 2017 - December 2017) to be conducted April - May 2018. The auditor will ensure that:a)All resources of the Bank have been used in accordance with applicable funding agreements, in the interests of economy and efficiency, and solely for the purposes for which they were provided. Cfr Financing Agreement; Schedule 2; Section IV; point A.b)Acquisitions of goods and services financed have been subject of contracts awarded in accordance with applicable funding agreements based on World Bank procurement procedures and were properly recorded in the booksc) All necessary accounts and records have been kept under the different operations relating to the project (including expenses covered by expense reports or financial monitoring reports). In the case of disbursements based on financial monitoring report, the auditor will verify that reports during the period covered by the audit are consistent with the funding agreements, sincere, reliable and fairly show the requested transactions refund; d) Designated Accounts are managed in relation to the provisions of funding agreements; e) Project accounts have been prepared on the basis of the systematic application of the National Accounting Plan standards and give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Project at the end of the year in question and the resources received and expenditures made during the year ended are updated; f) The overall financial performance of the Project is satisfactory; g) Project assets are real and properly assessed and ownership of the Project or beneficiaries of these assets is determined in accordance with the financing agreement; h) Any ineligible funds expenditure in claims identified in the audit if paid from Designated Account. These expenses will be subject to a separate note in the audit report. The duration of this consultancy is estimated for two (02) weeks calendar for each financial year (2 weeks for 2016 and 2 weeks for 2017).

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region now invites eligible consulting firms(“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The short listing criteria are:

Firm experience in financial audits of the accounts of development projects financed by the World Bank.
Firm experience in financial audits of the accounts of development projects financed by other international multilateral donors.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers Edition of*January 2011, Revised July 2014 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Least-Cost Selection (LCS) set out in the Consultant Guidelines.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours: 9:30 to 16:00 hours (Bujumbura local time).

Expressions of interest must be submitted by e-mail to Executive Secretary of the ICGLR at the following *Email address: *secretariat@icglr.org ***and copy tchimtab@yours.com;*** **tchim.tabaro@icglr.org; musondakalengo@gmail.com; *sserwangarose@yahoo.com; ebmokodopo@gmail.com;*** ***arcade.bigirindavyi@gmail.com; arcade.bigirindavyi@icglr.org and not later than 14th March 2017 at 16:00 Bujumbura local time (14:00 GMT)*.

Agency: International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)

Address: 38 Boulevard du Japon

BP 7076 BUJUMBURA-BURUNDI

Attn: Executive Secretary of ICGLR

Tel: +257 22256824/5/6/7/9

*E-mail:secretariat@icglr.org*

*Website:www.icglr.org*

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