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• Project Background and Objectives

Organization’s background:

The World Bank Group is renewing its commitment to systematically strengthen its engagement on finance, competitiveness and innovation issues in pursuit of the Twin Goals. A newly constituted Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice (FCI) brings together diverse World Bank and IFC Advisory units combining expertise in the financial sector with expertise in private sector development to foster private-sector led growth and help create markets in client countries.

Through this work, FCI strengthens the World Bank Group’s evolving approach to development finance: to maximize finance for development and to leverage private sector investments for sustainable and inclusive growth.

Globally, FCI leads the institution’s dialogue on financial sector policies and private sector development, as well as engagement with various standard-setting bodies, such as the G20, Financial Stability Board, the UN, etc.

Within countries, FCI works with governments to create an enabling environment where financial stability, access to finance and risk management provide a foundation to crowd-in private sector investment, create capital markets, and accelerate equitable growth.

At the same time, the practice is focused on identifying firm- and industry-level constraints to deliver reforms which can drive growth and accelerate job creation (including access to finance, innovation, special economic zones, industry solutions, entrepreneurship, etc.). Boosting firm-level efficiency and productivity centers on adopting better technologies, including digital ones.

FCI comprises close to 800 staff working across more than 120 countries.

The Practice focuses on six thematic areas:

• Financial Stability & Integrity (ensuring countries’ financial systems are stable, sound and transparent)
• Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure & Access (strengthening market infrastructures, and ensuring households and firms have access to financial services)
• Firm Capabilities & Innovation (creating the enabling environment for businesses to be competitive, efficient and cutting-edge)
• Industry Solutions (analyzing and identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for growth across and within industries)
• Long-Term Finance ((helping countries deepen and diversify their financial sectors, facilitating long term finance through capital markets, and strengthening the role of institutional investors)
• Climate & Risk Management (supporting countries to become more resilient and able to mitigate the impact of natural disasters combining financial and insurance tools).

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. It is committed to financing private sector businesses in emerging markets, mobilizing capital in the international financial markets, helping clients improve social and environmental sustainability and providing advisory services to businesses and governments.

Project background:

Current work under IFC’s Tunisia Investment Climate II aims, inter alia, to enhance Tunisia’s Business Regulation. In fact, Doing business has become relatively more difficult: Tunisias ranking in Doing Business (DB) has significantly deteriorated since the revolution. It dropped to 88th rank in the 2018 report. No reforms have been acknowledged in Tunisia in 2018 by the DB report. 

Over seven years, Tunisia has been a comparatively passive reformer, implementing a maximum of two reforms a year, if at all. Despite the government initiative to simplify regulations, the application rate of simplified regulations remains relatively low and varies across ministries. One project’s component is supporting the government to shed light on regulatory bottlenecks at the sectoral level, and develop recommendations to alleviate them in a participative manner. Focusing only on economy-wide regulations that improve the overall business environment may not be sufficient to create an impact in terms of investment and job creation, and often need to be complemented by targeted interventions at the sector level, and hence the need to bring a value chain lens to regulatory

reform. 

In this context, the project team is seeking to recruit a Short-Term Consultant to advance the implementation of actions and interventions identified in the action plan in relation to regulatory reforms. 

1. SCOPE OF WORK

The consultant will provide support to the project team to facilitate the implementation of the sectoral reforms. More specifically, the consultant will support the “TFDCVC” (Taskforce for the development of value chain and cluster) hosted in Cepex to: 

Implement sectoral reforms:

1. Support in defining an action plan (short and mid-terms) for the implementation of the identified reforms
2. Facilitate dialogue and meetings with the stakeholder, especially for inter-departmental reforms
3. Contribute to the preparation of documents required to draft for the meetings with the stakeholders (best practices, benchmark, impact analysis of the proposed regulation…)  
4. Support in implementing specific reforms forseen for (i) olive oil (ii) essential oil and aromatic plants value chains development, in particular related to food control, export control and revision of export specifications (cahier des charges) to be simplified
5. Provide concrete recommendation on the applicability of the social economy law for the sectoral reforms

Sectoral reforms implementation guideline:

1. Provide technical assistance to the Task-Force team to finalize the preparation and identification of regulatory reforms for the 3 ongoing value chains (crab, garment, medical tourism) and develop a reform implementation guideline. This includes best practices on regulatory analysis and monitoring, and identification of main constraints from public and private actors. 

Deliverables and level of efforts

The consultant will report to the co-TTLs of the project at IFC. The duration of the assignment is until Dec 30, 2021. The expected level of effort is 40 days. The assignment includes the production of the following deliverables:

• Action plan developed for 2 to 3 value chains (olive oil and essential oil / aromatic plants)
• Documents for the stakeholders’ meetings
• Report and recommendation on the implementation of specific reforms 
• Contribution to the implementation guideline and white paper of the 3 on-going value chains

• SPECIAL TERMS & CONDITIONS / SPECIFIC CRITERIA

Requirements:

• • University master’s degree or equivalent in either Business Administration, Management, Economics or a related area;
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant, international experience in the fields of business regulation, compliance, policy, development or similar;
  • 5 years of relevant experience in the field of business regulation in the Tunisian context
  • Experience in developing and managing relationships with various audiences from government, financial sector to large corporations;
  • Food industry and export control knowledge and experience is a plus;
  • Team player, proactive, tenacious, independent and autonomous. Demonstrated ability of taking initiatives, should be able to operate with minimum support, anticipate and bring solutions to issues, manage project plans & budgets;
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills;
  • Strong basic computer skills (Office, etc);
  • Fluent oral and written English, Arabic and French. 
• Availability and willingness to travel in the region with basis in Tunis, Tunisia.

Administrative procedures:

The contract between the IFC and chosen STC will establish the terms of compensation and the termination procedures. The STC firm will report to the project’s TTLs.