Mauritius – Development consultancy services – Technical Assistance Team for the Safe Seas Africa and Red Sea/Horn of Africa Programme II

The purpose of this contract is to provide technical assistance for the implementation, coordination, monitoring and strategic support of two European Union funded regional maritime security programmes in SubSaharan Africa: one covering the Western Indian Ocean and one covering the Red Sea/Horn of Africa. The services shall support the effective, coherent and visible delivery of programme activities, reinforce coordination among implementing partners and stakeholders, and contribute to the sustainability of the regional maritime security architecture. It shall cover five interlinked objectives: 1. To ensure effective coordination, supervision and coherence of actions implemented at programme level, including complementarity and synergies among implementing partners. 2. To strengthen effective ownership of programme activities at country and regional level. 3. To strengthen coordination and cooperation between regional and national partners and the Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC) and Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre (RMIFC). 4. To ensure effective results-based management and reporting at programme level 5. To ensure coherence and coordination with other EU initiatives and policies. The expected outputs of this contract are as follows: 1.1 The supervision of implementation of activities and the coordination of the work between the different implementing partners is ensured at programme level. 1.2 The joint planning and information sharing practices to support coherent implementation at programme level and across the two programmes is strengthened. 1.3 The coherence, complementarity and strategic alignment between the two programmes and implementing partners is strengthened. 2.1 The engagement of national and regional stakeholders in the planning, implementation and follow-up of activities is ensured at programme level. 2.2 A mechanism to ensure follow-up, accountability and sustained engagement in programme implementation is established. 3.1