USAID Indonesia Urban Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (USAID IUWASH Tangguh) is a five-year Activity to advance Indonesia’s development goals in increasing access to safely managed drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in vulnerable urban areas and strengthening climate-resilient WASH services and water resources management. In close partnership with the Government of Indonesia (GOI), USAID IUWASH Tangguh supports Indonesia’s work to achieve their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets to ensure access to water and sanitation for all (SDG 6) and to make cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable (SDG 11).
Using an Integrated Resilient IUWASH Systems (IRIS) approach—which aligns actions and incentives between upstream and downstream actors, while crowding in collaboration with key stakeholders through partnerships that accelerate the enabling environment and key enabling factors, such as finance and data—the USAID IUWASH Tangguh team will provide technical assistance to GOI, private sector and civil society stakeholders to achieve four objectives: 1) Strengthened WASH and WRM Sector Governance and Financing; 2) Increased Access to Poor-Inclusive, Climate-Resilient, Safely Managed Drinking Water and Sanitation Services; 3) Improved Water Resources Management to Support Resilient Drinking Water Services; and 4) Increased Adoption of Behaviors and Improved Women’s Participation and Leadership Roles that Contribute to Improvements of WASH and WRM.
USAID IUWASH Tangguh is looking for short term Individual Consultant - Technical Specialist -VAT for WASH in Jakarta
The objective of developing the additional analysis as the add on of the existing naskah akademis has been developed during USAID IUWASH PLUS program period is to provide more information for the decision maker, i.e. Ministry of Finance in issuing the regulation of VAT exemption on sanitation tariff. The additional analysis will comprehensively explore the benefit of regulation issuance in which the lowering sanitation tariff through VAT exemption will give more household to access the sanitation service.
*Detail SOW will be informed during the interview process.
Required Qualifications
To ensure the delivery of the output: the developing study addition of VAT exemption of wastewater service, the preferred application developer is individual consultant, which has the following qualifications:
- Must have mastering in public policy development, especially in development of ‘naskah akademis’ for GOI policy or regulation.
- Understand the operation and financial aspect of sanitation/waste water and water sector in Indonesia.
- Preferably having experiences in developing ‘naskah akademis’ for VAT or financial policy in water and/or sanitation sector.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Applicants are encouraged to apply soon and send the application to Tangguh_recruitment@dai.com. The close date of application will be until August 22nd, 2023.
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