COUNTRY: MULTI-NATIONAL
PROJECT NAME: TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT FACILITY (TSF) – CAPACITY BUILDING FOR GENDER INFRASTRUCTURE STATISTICS IN TRANSITION STATES – PHASE 1
SECTOR: POWER
ASSIGNMENT TITLE: INTERNATIONAL ENERGY STATISTICS EXPERT
GRANT NUMBER: 59001550
PROJECT ID: P-Z1-K00-174
The COMESA Secretariat has received a grant from the African Development Fund (ADF) towards the financing of the Capacity Building for Gender Sensitive Infrastructure Statistics in Transition States – Phase 1. The COMESA intends to apply part of the proceeds of the grant to procure Individual Consultancy services for an International Energy Statistics Expert to supervise the data collection, validation and analysis of energy statistics in participating countries.
The consulting services under the contract shall include, but not limited to:
- Validate the data management tool for ease of use and ability to conform to the terms of reference of the project.
- Validate the list of energy sector indicators.
- Undertake training of national energy focal points and country focal points on the data collection templates in the data management tool.
- Supervise the surveys on collection of power infrastructure data from all participating countries under the project.
- Using the online data management tool, perform quality control on the data collected, in collaboration with each Country Focal Person, during the data collection period.
- Draft the Power Statistics Pocketbook for the participating countries in the project.
- Advise the Gender Expert on the production of gender mainstreamed energy reports for the six selected TSF countries.
- Participate in dissemination programs on energy statistics derived from the TSF data collection surveys.
The COMESA Secretariat hereby invites qualified individual consultants to express their interest in providing these services. Interested applicants should submit information in English demonstrating their relevant educational qualifications, including experience in energy sector statistics, data management systems, or energy and infrastructure surveys and experience in data handling and analysis related to the energy sector.
Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy and Methodology for Bank Group Funded Operations”, dated October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org
The detailed Terms of Reference can be accessed and downloaded from the COMESA website at www.comesa.int. For further information or any clarification required, requests should be submitted via email at least five (5) working days prior to the deadline. Kindly send your inquiries during office hours, from 08:00 to 17:00 Central Africa Time (CAT). Please direct all correspondence to procurement@comesa.int, copy smwesigwa@comesa.int and kmzumara@comesa.int
Expressions of Interest bearing the subject: “Individual Consultancy Service, International Energy Statistics Expert – Capacity Building for Gender Infrastructure Statistics in Transition States”. must be submitted as ONE FILE using the Expression of Interest Forms annexed to the Terms of Reference and must be emailed to the address below by 16:00hrs Zambia Time, on Wednesday 26th November 2025.
Attn:
Mr. Silver Mwesigwa
Head of Procurement
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Ben Bella Road
P O Box 30051
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: 260 211 229725–32
Emails: tenders@comesa.int and copy kmzumara@comesa.int
NB: Physical submission of EOIs will not be accepted.
Issue Date: 5th November 2025.