Recruitment of an Individual Consultant to Develop the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Sub-Window Manual and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

**Project:** The Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills, and Equity Project

Country:        The Republic of the Gambia

Project Name: The Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills and Equity Project

Project Number: P179233                    

Reference No.:       GM-CPCU - MOFEA-573311-CS-INDV

Selection Method: Individual Consultant Selection

Assignment Tittle:     Request for Expressions of Interest - Recruitment of an Individual Consultant to Develop the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Sub-Window Manual and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Project Background

 The Government of The Gambia has secured Additional Financing (AF) under the Resilience, Inclusion, Skills, and Equity (RISE) Project (P179233), supported by the International Development Association (IDA) and the Global Shield Financing Facility (GSFF), to strengthen the country’s capacity to respond to climate and disaster-related shocks.

The AF introduces a new Subcomponent 3.4: Strengthening Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) and Adaptive Social Protection (ASP), which aims to integrate prearranged disaster risk financing mechanisms with shock-responsive social protection systems. This includes the establishment and capitalization of an Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Sub-Window under the Social Protection Fund (SPF).

The ASP Sub-Window will serve as a dedicated, rules-based financing mechanism to enable timely and predictable delivery of emergency cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households affected by shocks such as droughts, floods, and food price crises.

Objectives of the assignment

The main objective of this consultancy is to develop a comprehensive, rules-based ASP Sub-Window Operational Manual and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that will guide the governance, management, and utilization of funds for shock-responsive social protection interventions.

 

Scope of Services:

The consultant will develop the ASP Sub-Window Operational Manual addressing the following elements:

1. Institutional and Governance Framework
2. Define explicit time benchmarks for each step in the response chain (trigger confirmation, activation decision, beneficiary list finalization, payment instruction, first transfer received), calibrated to the project target of 60% of beneficiaries receiving their first transfer within 60 days of trigger activation. Reference the 2-week on-time Nafa payment standard as the operational baseline.
3. Position the ASP Sub-Window clearly within the national risk-layering framework
4. Financial and Investment Framework
5. Activation protocols (“triggers”)
6. Create a placeholder section that will outline when exactly an emergency response via the ASP Sub-Window will be activated. The consultant should create an outline detailing the type of information required per subsection. This section will then be filled separately.

 

Qualifications & Experience of the Consultant:

The individual consultant should have:

• A Master’s degree in economics, public policy, finance, or related field.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in the design or management of disaster response funds and adaptive social protection systems.
• Proven experience working in developing countries. Experience working in West Africa –ideally The Gambia – is an advantage.
• Knowledge of the design of sovereign risk transfer instruments is an advantage.
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations guiding the management of national funds in The Gambia is an advantage.
• Knowledge of the financial management rules and regulations of the World Bank guiding supported projects is an advantage.
• Excellent command of the English language
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience interacting with senior government officials.
• Capacity to work independently with minimal supervision and to deliver work within agreed deadlines.

Submission of Expressions of Interest:

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs (MoFEA), through the Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills and Equity Project, now invites eligible individual consultants to express their interest in providing the Services. Interested individual Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” dated September 2025(“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. 

A Consultant firm will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultants (IC) set out in the Guidelines for Recruitment of Consultants.

Further information and the full TOR can be obtained from the email addresses below during office hours from 08:30 to 16:00 GMT Mondays to Thursdays and from 0830 to 12:30 GMT on Fridays.

Expressions of interest should be delivered by electronic mail on or before 23rd November 2026 at 12h30 GMT

Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills and Equity Project, RISE

Royal Insurance Building

2nd Floor, Kotu Bertil Harding Highway

The Gambia  

Email: nsosseh@cpcumof.gm, ygassama@cpcumof.gm, rsey@cpcumof.gm mktouray@cpcumof.gm