Abt Global

FPSP-RFP-2025-12 Australia Awards-Short Course in Project Management

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11 July 2025 05:49am
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Summary

Introduction

Australia is Fiji’s largest bilateral development assistance donor, providing estimated AUD 88.1 million in bilateral, regional and global ODA plus AUD 68 million in additional budget support announced in 2023-24. The development program works through a range of modalities, including through grants to multilateral partners and civil society, budget support to Government of Fiji (GoF) and direct implementation of bilateral programs.

In accordance with the provisions of a renewed and elevated Fiji-Australia Vuvale Partnership, strengthening people-to-people links, deepening the economic relationship, enhancing security cooperation, building cooperation on international and regional issues and partnering to enable sustainable human development in areas such as healthcare, education, gender equality, social inclusion and poverty reduction.

Abt Global is the implementing service provider for the Client’s Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP) of program management, administrative, logistical, procurement and technical services. The Platform is responsible for implementing sector programs, achieving portfolio coherence and alignment with bilateral objectives, including climate change and GEDSI priorities.

The three functional end-of-Platform outcomes are as follows:

Outcome 1: The Platform has delivered its sector program outcomes, including through supporting strategic coherence, planning, partnerships management, data and learning across the portfolio of investments.

Outcome 2: The Platform has prioritised gender equality and disability-inclusive development, and climate and disaster resilience, in its systems and practices. This includes in how it undertakes sector programming and its engagement with selected Government of Fiji agencies.

Outcome 3: The Platform administers timely and efficient programming that is: value for money; maximises use of local supply chains; and supports good governance and public diplomacy, effective decision making and risk management.

Australia Awards are prestigious international scholarships funded by the Australian Government. They offer the next generation of global leaders an opportunity to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Three study components are delivered as part of Australia Awards Fiji:

  • Australia Award Scholarships (AAS) for Fijians to undertake long-term study in Australia
  • Australia Awards Pacific Scholarships (AAPS) for Fijians to undertake long-term study in the Pacific Region (predominately Fiji) to meet critical workforce gaps.
  • Australia Awards Short Course Awards (SCA) for Fijians to undertake short-term professional development study in Australia or Fiji
Description

Background 

The Fiji Government executes a substantial portfolio of infrastructure, service delivery, and reform projects aligned with its National Development Plan. However, performance across these projects is uneven due to varying capacity in project management across ministries. A 2025 survey of 193 civil servants highlighted major gaps in project management skills, particularly in budgeting, risk management, stakeholder engagement, change management, and progress reporting. Two-thirds of respondents indicated they had never received formal training in project management.

Scope of Services

Abt Global through Australia Awards Fiji (AAF) and in collaboration with the Fiji Learning Institute for Public Service (FLIPS), will deliver a targeted Project Management Short Course to build essential project management skills in Fiji’s public service. This course will also support sustainable skills development by co-developing a training package that can be institutionalized and adapted for future use by FLIPS.

The overall goal of this course is to:

Strengthen the capacity of Fiji’s public service to consistently plan and deliver projects on time, on budget, and to intended results, contributing to national development priorities.

Specific Objectives:

  1. Equip 20 mid-career public servants with the knowledge, tools, and methodologies to manage public sector projects.

  2. Co-develop, with FLIPS, a project management training package tailored to Fiji’s context.

  3. Build a pipeline of local trainers through a train-the-trainer component.

Submission

Submissions will be evaluated by an independent evaluation assessment panel and successful will be formally notified of the outcome of the process. 

To access the RFP documents and Response Form, go to website: 

Interested parties can access the RFP documents online from https://www.abtassociates.com/ solicitations/australia-solicitations.

 

Application Forms with required documentation must be submitted electronically in PDF format at the latest by 11:59pm (Fiji time) on Friday 8 August 2025 to: tenders@fpsp.org.fj