SELECTION OF CONSULTANTS BY THE WORLD BANK

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Electronic Submissions through World Bank Group eConsultant http://www.worldbank.org/wbgeconsultant

Assignment Overview

The World Bank will conduct a three part study of conflict in Indonesia in the period since the resignation of President Suharto. The study aims to increase our existing knowledge of conflict in this time period, particularly relating to the prevalence of routine violence and the escalation and deescalation of conflict. The research strategy incorporates mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.

The first step of the project will primarily consist of building a large dataset drawing on sub-provincial and provincial newspapers in at least 20 provinces for the years 1998-2008. The dataset will be the most comprehensive database of conflict in Indonesia in the post-Suharto era. It will allow for the identification of a wide range of trends since 1998, including: the levels (violent and non-violent incidents); impacts (deaths, injuries, properties damaged) and forms (by ‘type’ of conflict, actors involved, etc.); geographic variation (allowing for disaggregation to at least the sub-district level); and temporal variation of conflict over that period.

The World Bank will soon contract a firm (hereafter referred to as ‘the firm’) to complete the coding of incidents based on selected sub-provincial and provincial newspapers in eleven (11) provinces for the years 1998 – 2008. These provinces are East Java, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, West Nusatenggara, North Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, Central Kalimantan and Papua.


Assignment Title: National Conflict Monitoring System: Phase II

Assignment Country: Indonesia

Assignment Description

The World Bank seeks a firm capable of undertaking the following tasks:

• Develop a Microsoft Access database to be used in the project.
• Train all staff in the use of the coding system supplied by the World Bank.
• Travel to the regions and assess newspapers on coverage, impartiality, presence of archives and other factors important to their suitability for use in data collection.
• Provide to the World Bank a report on this media assessment and the proposed data collection strategy.
• Complete an incident template for each incident of violent and non-violent conflict reported in newspapers and other sources.
• Implement quality control procedures to ensure accuracy and consistency across researchers working in different areas and across time.
• Input the data collected in the incident templates into the conflict database.
• Implement quality control procedures in the inputting of data into the database.
• Provide monthly update reports.
• Deliver completed database and hard copies of media templates with attached newspaper article copies.

Funding Source:

The World Bank intends to finance the assignment/services described below under a budget allocation for the Bank's administrative budget.

Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.

Individual/Firm Profile:
The consultant will be a firm or consortium.

Submission Requirements:
The World Bank now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.).
Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

Interested consultants are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.

Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through World Bank Group eConsultant http://www.worldbank.org/wbgeconsultant.

Notes:
Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the current edition of the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers.

Selection and contracting will normally be made from responses to this notification. The consultant will be selected from a shortlist, subject to availability of funding.

Contact Information:

Patrick Barron

Jl. Diponegoro No. 8

Menteng Jakarta Pusat