Releasing the transformational potential of extractives for economic development: data component and online resource hub

Department for International Development, GB

The Department for International Development (DFID) invites tenders for releasing the transformational potential of extractives for economic development: data component and online resource hub. This five-year programme intends to help drive economic development and eradicate poverty through effective management of natural resources.

Tenderers will deliver two projects under this programme:

•enable governments, civil society and investors to revolutionise their use of data from transparency initiatives for accountability and improved policy-making in five countries;

•support a resource hub on extractives to build capacity and coordinate knowledge and supplier skills globally so that governments can manage extractives better.

Tenderers should demonstrate the ability to: drive innovation to turn the increased volume of complex data flowing from extractives transparency initiatives and other information sources into more user-friendly formats that can be successfully piloted in five countries and possibly taken to scale; work in partnership with other practitioners, DFID country offices, citizens including marginalised groups, women and girls, investors and governments to identify the needs of data users; build capacity of users to interpret data and use it for policy design, advocacy and reform.

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Closing date 05 Jan 2015