81258031 — Support to the Decentralisation Reform in Ukraine (U-LEAD II)

The multi-donor initiative, the ‘Ukraine — Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme (U-LEAD)’ is supporting administrative-territorial reform, fiscal and sectoral decentralisation as well as local and regional development in Ukraine. This reform centres on the rationalisation of local municipalities into larger agglomerations and the redistribution of competences between levels of government. U-LEAD with Europe's Phase II will start on 1 July 2020 with funding from the European Union, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and potentially other member states. Implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) it will run for 42 months until 31 December 2023. GIZ is seeking to procure the services of a contractor (consultancy firm or consortium).