Consultant - African Energy Dialogues

Program Overview:

The African Energy Dialogues (AED) aims to create a space for African voices to converge in developing nuanced energy pathways for African countries. The stakeholders involved in this initiative will deliberate on opportunities and trade-offs for achieving African countries’ energy development and industrialisation objectives. The discourse facilitated by AED will address numerous key topics related to countries’ unique energy transition pathways – including the utilisation of fossil fuels and renewable energy resources; enabling policies and regulations; trade, import and export considerations; local and regional transmission and distribution issues; and strategies for scaling up investment and finance.

The discourse of AED is led collaboratively by a Steering Committee including World Resources Institute (WRI) Africa, the African Energy Commission (AFREC), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The AED meetings include in-person and virtual convenings of national and regional policymakers and other key stakeholders in the energy sector across the continent. The AED will deliver reports, policy proposals, recommendations, and tools developed through rigorous discussion, research, and analysis carried out by thematic Working Groups. Currently, the AED Steering Committee has identified three working groups, including Investment and Finance Working Group (IFWG), Enabling Policies and Regulations Working Group (EPRWG), and Technologies and Infrastructure Working Group (T&IWG). These knowledge materials will be developed in part by ad hoc taskforces assigned to each Working Group, will be reviewed and approved by the appropriate Working Group and the Steering Committee, and will be used strategically to support country-level policymakers in their energy transition planning.

WRI intends to award a consultant a nine-month reimbursable contract for research and analysis to support the taskforce of the IFWG under the AED, on various topics related to locally led investment and finance issues for Africa’s energy transition pathways.

Scope of Work (SoW):

1. Engage with the IFWG and Lead the Taskforce of IFWG.
   • Participate in the IFWG discussion meetings, and draft meeting reports with key findings and next steps.
   • Work with the taskforce members of the IFWG regularly (virtually and in person) to deliberate on key issues identified by the IFWG.
     1. Research and Analytical Support
        • Lead the taskforce to carry out research and analysis on the key issues identified by the IFWG, that are related to locally led investment and finance issues for African energy transition pathways.
        • Systematically document key insights and findings derived from the research in the form of taskforce briefing reports.
        • Develop at least two stand-alone case studies to share knowledge through the AED on best practices as identified by the taskforce.
        • Report and present evidence based on research, case studies and analysis on the key issues and topics to the IFWG for policy proposals.
        • Prepare a draft policy proposal to be considered by the IFWG out of the research and case studies developed by the taskforce.
          1. Roadmap Development
             • Conduct due diligence on strategies and engagement plans for IFWG to work on in the following two years on locally led investment and finance issues for African energy transition to inform and influence country-level energy transition planning.
             • Develop a detailed Concept Note outlining the key issues to be addressed by the IFWG in the following two years.
             • Design and develop a roadmap for IFWG to carry out in the following two years including strategies and engagement and implementation plans.

               Deliverables and Terms of Payment:

               📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

               ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

               The consultant will receive compensation based on deliverables submitted throughout the project period (deliverable-based) with deliverables, timeline, and terms of payment as follows:

               Deliverables

               Outputs

               Time Frame

               Payment (gross)

               Engagement with the Taskforce of IFWG