Data Analytics support for GIZ`s Data Service Center

The promotion and dissemination of digitisation is a development policy goal in its own, which the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is pursuing in a special way together with its partners. On behalf of the BMZ, GIZ is implementing a lot of different digital solutions in various bilateral, sectoral and global projects. In addition to the BMZ Digital Transformation Centres operating worldwide, these include a wide range of projects such as the Fairwork Foundation, the European Union-African Union Data Markets, ICT building blocks for digital citizen services or open data for policy-making. In line with the needs and potentials of the partners, these projects support local capacities to shape the digital transformation. The development of GIZ into a data-competent company is of central importance for our future implementation strength. As a data-competent company, we want to collect high-quality data with standardized tools, centrally classify and store data that can be applied across programs, and blend and supplement this data with externally available data. From this, we draw extended insights and evidence and offer data services. Working in Germany and in countries all over the world, our projects need special expertise during the next years including advise and hands on support on data analytics. For this purpose, the Data Service Center (DSC) is a central support offering for projects to enable more efficient and higher-quality work with data. Projects must meet the increasing demands of customers and partners for data-based work. Up to now, they have been dependent on the development of numerous individual stand-alone solutions. This causes high and redundant development efforts and does not pay off for our company-wide development of data competencies. Through consulting, data analysis and central data infrastructure, the DSC helps projects to work more efficiently and reduce the need for redundant developments.The services offered by the Data Service Center (DSC) are initially aimed at projects. As soon as the necessary infrastructures and foundations for data-driven work have been created in the GIZ, the cooperation between projects and partner organizations is also considered. In addition, the needs of other central units, such as the corporate security or evaluation units, are served. The focus is on data services, which are provided with the help of internally available resources and capacities, but also in part with external service providers. Data services also include background services and products that are delivered in combination with consulting services. For example, data analysis of project control data includes services such as database and dashboard modeling as well as data storage in a cloud data infrastructure. The DSC team consists of Data Scientists, Engineers and Analysts and Geoinformation specialists. There are topic leaders for specific areas of activity: infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Monitoring & Evaluation and Geographical Information Systems. They are the central contact persons for ongoing activities and customer inquiries in the respective topic area. As topic managers, they ensure coherence between order, cooperation, project and knowledge management, but also work on the data services themselves.With this tender we want to extend the work of the DSC and assure a group of quality proofed, subject matter experts (SMEs) for the area of data analytics. The selected experts will consult our internal employees from the DSC and the projects as well as our external partners. External partners could be officials from governance, member of social society or local start-ups.