Request for Proposals – African Professionalisation Initiative

Requests for Proposals – Pre-qualification Students Learning Programme Phase 2- Extended Deadline!

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 30 May 2025 06:44:24 +0000

Extended Deadline : 24 June 2024 5:00 PM, South African Standard Time (SAST)

Afrosai-e, on behalf of the API, is requesting proposals (RFP) for the various components of the learning programme, as detailed in the following documents:

Letter of invitation	Download
Terms of Reference 1– Learning resources development	Download
Terms of Reference 2– Digitisation of Learning Resources	Download
Terms of Reference 3– Online logbook development	Download
Terms of Reference 4– Programme guidelines	Download
Terms of Reference 5– Technical support capacity	Download

API Call for Expression of Interest(EOI) – IPSAS, IFRS & Data Analytics for Individual Experts

African Professionalisation Initiative — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:20:44 +0000

- Join the African Professionalisation Initiative (API) Pool of Experts,

- Contribute to Capacity Building of Competent and Ethical Public Sector Professionals Across Africa.

Introduction

The African Professionalisation Initiative (API) is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from individual experts experienced as accountancy, auditing and data analytics professionals to join our pool of experts. This pool will support API’s mission to professionalise Africa’s public sector by delivering:

Quality tuition support in the API Professionalisation programmes;
Tailored training International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Public Sector Auditing – These are core modules in the API professionalisation programme; and
Train and support implementation of Data Analytics and AI for API students and stakeholders.

Joining API’s expert pool offers you a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact by strengthening financial governance and building capacity across the African public sector. As an expert, you may be called upon to provide services on an as-needed basis in response to the requirements and needs of API stakeholders, which include public sector institutions and governments.

Vision

API’s vision is to build “an African public sector sustainably capacitated with competent, ethical, and influential professionals who support accountability, transparency, and good financial governance.” We invite you to help us achieve this transformative goal.

Target Audience

We are seeking seasoned individual professionals with demonstrated expertise in delivering high-quality training and implementation support in IPSAS, IFRS, Public Sector Auditing Standards and Data Analytics for public sector stakeholders. Applicants should have a passion for advancing transparency and accountability in public financial management.

Eligibility Criteria

To be considered for API’s pool of experts, applicants do not need expertise in all listed areas. We encourage you to express interest based on your specific competencies, such as IPSAS, IFRS, Public Sector Auditing, Data Analytics and AI, or any combination of these. Applicants should meet the following minimum requirements:

15 years or more of demonstrated experience in delivering IPSAS or IFRS or Public Sector Auditing or Data Analytics & AI training and implementation support.
Proven experience in providing training and implementation support to public sector organizations, ministries, or government agencies.
Additional expertise in Public Financial Management (PFM) and Artificial Intelligence will be a significant advantage.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse multi-cultural audiences effectively.

Key Responsibilities

Experts included in the pool will be expected to:

Deliver comprehensive IPSAS or IFRS or Data Analytics training tailored to the needs of public sector professionals and API stakeholders.
Develop and/or customize training materials to ensure relevance to the local / in country context.
Support capacity-building initiatives that align with API’s vision and mission.

Important Note

Selection into API’s pool of experts does not guarantee appointment or work. Inclusion means you will be eligible to be contacted for training and consultancy assignments as they arise, based on API’s project requirements and stakeholder needs.

Submission Requirements

To apply, interested professionals must provide the following on the link included with this advertisement:

1. A detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), including:

1. - Full name, country, and address.
  - Education and professional qualifications.
  - Membership of any professional bodies (e.g., IFAC-member organizations; other professions, etc).
  - Summary of relevant experience, including training and consulting assignments.
2. A short statement of motivation (200-300 words) explaining:
  - Why you are interested in joining API’s pool of individual experts.
  - How your expertise aligns with API’s mission and vision.
3. Detail experience gained at supervisory and/or leadership level.
4. A list of past clients or organisations you have trained or consulted for, with a brief description of the type of training delivered.
5. Your availability, specifying when you are ready to begin delivering training assignments for API.
6. A completed online application form, accessible on the button below:

APPLY NOW

Deadline

All submissions must be received by 28 February 2025.

Why Join API?

Play a critical role in supporting Africa’s public sector professionalisation success in line with API’s vision.
Collaborate with a network of leading experts to advance transparency and accountability in public financial management.
Contribute to strengthening governance structures and financial systems across the continent.

How to Apply

Get ready to submit your CV, statement of motivation, client testimonials and the completed application form, accessible on the ‘Apply Now’ button below. For any inquiries, feel free to contact us at: info@professionalisation.africa; cc Kgomotso@professionalisation.africa

APPLY NOW

API looks forward to welcoming you to our network of individual experts committed to driving impactful change in Africa’s public sector.

Our Pledge at the API

At the African Professionalisation Initiative (API), we are not just raising the bar for accountants and auditors in the public sector—we’re building a legacy of excellence. Through strategic partnerships with in-country Lead Learning partners, such as Professional Accountancy Organizations (PAOs) & Regulators; and leading higher education institutions, we are revolutionizing the way public finance professionals are shaped and nurtured to effectively create value and serve the public interest.

Request for Proposal – Support Services for AWS and Moodle LMS

African Professionalisation Initiative — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:16:38 +0000

Deadline : 19 July 2024 5:00 PM, South African Standard Time (SAST).

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Call for Expressions of Interest to form part of a Panel of Service Providers for the African Professionalisation Initiative (API)

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:24:34 +0000

Deadline : 30 June 2024 5:00 PM, South African Standard Time (SAST).

About The API

The African Professionalisation Initiative (API) is an independent non-profit organisation whose primary objective is to strengthen the capacity and knowledge base of accounting and auditing professionals in the African public sector to enhance accounting and auditing service delivery to the citizens of Africa.

Our Vision: An African public sector capacitated with competent, ethical and influential professionals who support accountability, transparency and good financial governance.

Our Mission: Grow the capacity of public sector finance management professionals in the African public sector through high quality, relevant and future fit learning programmes.

The API Learning Programmes aim to achieve the above institutional goal as a partnership between the accountancy profession (represented by the Pan African Federation of Accountants (“PAFA”)), accountants general or their equivalent (African Association of Accountants General – “AAAG”)), and supreme audit institutions or courts of auditors (represented by the English (“AFROSAI-E”) and French (“CREFIAF”) language sub-groups of the African Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (“AFROSAI”)).

Summary

This call to form part of a panel aims to create a pool of high-quality prospective service providers, comprising individual service providers, small and medium enterprises and large corporates to be included in a database from which the API will select from time to time, in line with needs and specific initiatives being developed. This approach aims to ensure that the API is able to collaborate with different service providers and draw from a diverse pool of expertise for the variety of API learning programmes or initiatives. This also ensures that the API is able to use the relative strength of service providers in their area of expertise.

General Scope of Work

Prospective service providers need to have capability, expertise and experience in the compilation of API learning programmes and product range covering, broadly, public sector financial management, accounting and auditing, ethics and other related topics. Alternatively, service providers will need to have skills in the compilation of exit assessments to assess achievement against learning programme objectives. Prospective service providers with an interest in the technological aspects of the API will be required to have skills in instructional design and the digitisation of learning content, particularly on a Moodle-based platform. For any given project or part thereof, that requires learning content development, development of exit assessments or online digitisation, the API will utilise the pool to request the identified or suitable service provider for a concept note or quotations (as appropriate) on how any specific work related to their domain of expertise may be completed. The service provider will also be requested to submit a price quote, based on the scope of the work. The most suitable / responsive proposal for the project will then be assessed and the service provider notified for any formalities that would need to take place to undertake the work, including contracting requirements. Prospective service providers will be required to follow API established guidelines for the compilation of learning, exit assessments or related digitising, to ensure consistent quality of API learning offerings.

NB- Being part of this pool does not guarantee work from the API, as any selection of a service provider will depend on existing needs; current learning programmes under development and the suitability of the proposals/ concept notes submitted during each call.

The Objective of the Call for Service Providers

The aim of this advert is to build a database of suitable prospective service providers, whether individuals, small and medium enterprises and larger corporates that are able to complete contracted work to (A) author learning programmes for different components of public financial management (See API Houses/ Programmes categories), (B) compile exit assessments for purposes of confirming successful learning and those who (C) undertake instructional design and the digitisation of the learning content. Prospective service providers can submit their expression of interest to form part of the panel of prospective service providers either for (A), (B) or (C), or all three, however, submissions must be clearly separated (not submitted as one submission) so that they can be considered for suitability on an individual basis.

Target Countries

Service providers can be based in any country; however, it is important that service providers are able to draft content, exit assessments or digitise learning that can be used and is suitable for use in any country, particularly across the African continent. The service providers should also be in a position to quote their rates in South African Rands (ZAR), to enable comparison across service providers, and facilitate ease of payment.

AFROSAI-E on behalf of the API is requesting expressions of interest (EOIs) to the call above, as detailed in the following documents:

Letter of Invitation (to the above call)	Download
Terms of Reference – A: Authoring of learning programmes for public sector accountants and auditors, and other related stakeholders.	Download
Terms of Reference – B: Exit assessments.	Download
Terms of Reference – C: Instructional design and digitisation of learning programmes.	Download

Request for Expressions of Interest : API Implementation Consultant Liberia

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:06:03 +0000

AFROSAI-E has received financing from the African Development Bank towards the cost of the African Financial Integrity and Accountability Support Project (AFIAP). We intend to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for a consultant to coordinate and implement the API Learning Programme for Liberia.

Expressions of interest must be emailed to procurement@afrosai-e.org.za by 1 December 2023 with “API Implementation Consultant Liberia” in the subject line of the e-mail.

Request for Expressions of Interest : API Implementation Consultant Zimbabwe

African Professionalisation Initiative — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:30:40 +0000

The AFROSAI-E has received financing from the African Development Bank towards the cost of the African Financial Integrity and Accountability Support Project (AFIAP) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for a consultant to coordinate and implement the API Learning Programme for Zimbabwe.

Expressions of interest must be emailed to procurement@afrosai-e.org.za by 4 December 2023 with “API Implementation Consultant Zimbabwe” in the subject line of the e-mail.

Request for Expressions of Interest – Liberia

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:58:44 +0000

Contextualisation of Liberia country-specific learning content

AFROSAI-E has received financing from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of the African Financial Integrity and Accountability Support Project (AFIAP) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for a consultancy/service provider to the author to incorporate country-level content into the African Professionalisation Initiative (API) Accelerated Learning Programme for Liberia.

Expressions of interest must be emailed to procurement@afrosai-e.org.za by 30 November 2023 with “API Contextualization Firm Liberia” in the email subject line.

Request for Expressions of Interest – Zimbabwe

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:35:44 +0000

Contextualisation of Zimbabwe country-specific learning content

Expressions of interest must be emailed to procurement@afrosai-e.org.za by 30 November 2023 with “API Contextualization Firm Zimbabwe” in the email subject line.

Request for Proposals – Digitisation of the ALP into French

African Professionalisation Initiative — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:59:16 +0000

Please click below to view the issued Request for Proposals for the digitisation of the Accelerated Programme learning resources into French, on the API online learning platform.

Deadline for Proposals extended to: Friday, 8 December 2023 at 5pm (South African Standard Time).

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Requests for Proposals – Pre-qualification (Students) Learning Resources

African Professionalisation Initiative — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:14:20 +0000

Please click below to view the re-issued Request for Proposals for the development of learning resources targeting aspiring professional accountants and auditors.

Deadline for Proposals has been extended to: Friday, 8 December 2023 at 5pm (South African Standard Time).

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Request For Proposal : To develop a learning program for the African Professionalisation Initiative (API) on Performance Audits of Health Sector Commodities.

African Professionalisation Initiative — Wed, 17 May 2023 13:57:44 +0000

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Notice of Clarification and Amendment of Instructions to Translators: Translation of the Accelerated Learning Programme of the African Professionalisation Initiative from English to French

African Professionalisation Initiative — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:06:37 +0000

With reference to the Request for Proposal (RFP) on the above subject matter issued on 6 March 2023, Service providers are being informed that a Notice of Clarification and Amendment of Instructions was issued on 14 March 2023, see attached.

The closing date for receiving proposals remains 27 March 2023.

Request for Proposals – Pre-Qualification (Students) Learning Resources

African Professionalisation Initiative — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:31:20 +0000

Please click below to view our Request for Proposals for the development of learning resources targeting aspiring professional accountants and auditors.

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, 18 November 2022 at 5pm (South African Standard Time).

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