DFID 7748 Consolidating Democracy in Pakistan (CDIP) - Call Down Contract

The objective of this contract is effective management and delivery of the CDIP programme. The role of the service provider is to implement the CDIP programme, to ensure effective delivery of advisory support and additional roles and responsibilities as described in these ToRs and the results framework, and to support programme governance structures.

The beneficiaries of this contract programme will be citizens of Pakistan, particularly women, young people, minorities, persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. The service provider will support a range of relevant organisations, including but not limited to, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), national and provincial parliaments, mainstream political parties, and civil society groups-to enable and empower them to help deliver the expected outcomes of this programme.

The CDIP service provider will be expected to manage delivery of four components of linked programme activity, with a focus on capability, accountability and responsiveness across the programme. Work under all four components must be consistent with the guiding principles that the state must be more capable, accountable and responsive, whilst citizens must be able to benefit from the state's strengthened capability, its openness and transparency for the sake of accountability, and its readiness to be responsive. This will include close integration of work with formal and informal institutions, and ensuring that interlinked "supply" and "demand" side initiatives feed into the same outputs. The CDIP service provider will need to demonstrate the capacity to manage the complexity of political institutions and ensuring that work in each thematic area feeds into a coherent overarching strategy for promoting political governance reform.