The World Bank has successfully ended a Participatory Consultative Process with the supportfrom a Seed Grant by the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF).

As a result, a Grant Proposal has been produced outlining the following areas of interventions:

The above interventions will be in selected parts of Central, Nyanza and Rift Valley Provinces.

The services to be provided by the Management Consultant will include the day-to-daymanagement, coordination, capacity building and implementation of the activities of the Grant,financial and procurement management, monitoring and evaluation, and external audits amongothers.

The World Bank now invites eligible Management Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services.

Interested Management Consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similarconditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.).

Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

A Management Consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, published in May 2004, and revised in October 2006.

Interested Management Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours: 0900 to 1700 hours, Monday to Thursday, and 0900 to 1100 hours on Fridays.

Expressions of Interest must be delivered to the address below,

Attention: Mrs. Monica Okwirry

Japan Social Development Grant

The World Bank

Upper Hill,

P.O. Box 30577-00100,

Nairobi

Online submission to be sent to: mokwirry@worldbank.org

Application Deadline; Friday, November 13, 2009.

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