Consultant at Ghana Integrity Initiative

The specific objectives of the assessment are:

• To identify anti-corruption policy/legislative gaps in the manifestoes of five selected political parties who have won power since the year 2008 and make recommendations on Ghana’s current anti-corruption policy or legislative needs
• To identify how political parties from the comparative countries have, in the past three elections, mainstreamed anti-corruption policy/legislative gaps in their manifestoes and recommend same
• To review anti-corruption recommendations from grant partners of STAR Ghana’s 2016- 2019 anti-corruption call for inclusion in an anti-corruption policy recommendation to be made to the political parties

Scope of Work/Terms of Reference

• Undertake a comprehensive review of relevant documents
• Develop a detailed work plan outlining the approach to conduct the study
• Collect and process relevant data and write a comprehensive report on the subject matter
• Participate in three zonal citizens consultative workshops
• Categorise recommendations under themes
• Present draft report to GII, GACC and key stakeholders for inputs at a validation meeting to be organised by project implementation partners
• Incorporate inputs from validation process into the report
• Provide the final report (Anti-Corruption Manifesto 2020) to GII & GACC
• Develop a Policy Paper or brief to be presented to the political parties

Expected Outputs and deliverables

• Detailed work plan for assignment developed
• Draft report detailing anti-corruption reforms to Political Parties consideration
• One validation meeting organized and inputs from stakeholders documented (equally subject to initial validation with project implementation partners)
• Final report (Anti-Corruption Manifesto 2020) developed and presented to the project implementing partners
• One policy dialogue organized by the implementing partners and facilitated by thenconsultant

Expected Requirements of Applicants

Successful applicant should be an Experienced Consultant with:

• Proven track record in undertaking similar assessments
• Deep knowledge of Ghana’s political landscape
• Expertise in governance/anti-corruption research
• A minimum of five years of research experience
• Deep knowledge and skills in qualitative methodologies
• Excellent data processing and IT skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and writing skills