The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is seeking the services of individual consultants to undertake the assessment of the Special Program for the Development of Africa (SPDA). The services involve a complete assessment of the program in terms of financial approval, delivery and project implementation. It will include a desk review at the IDB HQ, (using Reports and Recommendations of the President (RRP), Project Implementation Assessment and Supervision Reports (PIASR), and where applicable, Project Completion Reports (PCR) and Evaluation Reports (ER), among others) to prepare an inventory of achieved and expected outputs of all approvals made for SPDA. This will be complemented with a review of the state of implementation of the projects which will entail field missions to select SPDA countries to interact with the Implementing Agencies and visit projects on the ground. The IDB now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested individual consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, general qualifications and so forth). Three consultants will be selected from a short-list and in accordance with the procedures set out in the Guidelines for the Use of Consultants under Islamic Development Bank Financing, May 2009. Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the working hours from 08:00 to 17:00. Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by 25.07.2013. Islamic Development Bank To attention of Salah Mansour, Manager Region 3, Country Programs Department Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 2 646 6629 Fax: +966 2 646 7864 E-mail: slmansour@isdb.org Subject: SPDA Assessment