1. This Request for Expression of Interest follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared in UN Development Business (UNDB online); on the African Development Bank’s Internet Website (afdb.org) and the COMESA Secretariat Website (www.comesa.int) on 10^th March 2025.

The COMESA Secretariat has received financing from the African Development Bank toward the cost of the Capacity Building for Gender and Infrastructure Statistics in Transition States – Phase 1 and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for an International Energy Statistics & Data Collection Expert.

2. Objective of the Assignment.

The overall objective is to ensure that power sector data collection from participating countries:

• Fully complies with the AIKP Handbook on Infrastructure Statistics.
• It is methodologically sound, complete, accurate, and comparable across countries.
• Produces validated datasets suitable for regional aggregation and publication.
• Strengthens institutional capacity in participating countries.

Specifically, the Expert shall: 

1. Supervise and monitor the entire data collection cycle across all participating countries.
2. Ensure strict adherence to AIKP definitions, classifications, and validation standards.
3. Provide structured technical advisory guidance to country focal points to improve data quality and completeness.
4. Perform systematic validation and consistency checks on all submitted datasets.
5. Ensure cross-country harmonization of power sector indicators.
6. Support integration of gender-disaggregated indicators in coordination with the Gender Expert.