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Cowater International is recruiting a Team Lead - Budget and Debt Management for Prospera Phase 2 Program in Indonesia.
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Program Background
Tautai – Governance for Economic Growth Program will consolidate and build on Australia’s previous investments supporting the Government of Samoa (GoS) to improve fiscal management and promote equitable economic growth. The program will support Australia’s engagement with the GoS and other development partners in policy-driven budget support arrangements, and to complement and support Australia’s other major bilateral investment through the Tautua Samoa Human Development and Social Inclusion program, working in health, education and social protection.
The overall objective of Tautai is to promote equitable economic recovery and growth in Samoa with improved fiscal efficiency, reducing the country's vulnerability to debt and external shocks.
About DT Global Asia Pacific
At DT Global Asia Pacific, we aim to positively impact people’s lives through delivery excellence. As a leading implementing partner across Asia and the Pacific, we co-create locally led solutions in partnership with governments, communities, and stakeholders. We bring together talented teams and deep regional expertise to deliver initiatives that promote inclusive economic growth, essential services, and resilient, secure communities. With over 1,500 staff, experts in 22+ countries and more than 60 years of development experience, we tackle complex community, national and transnational challenges — from governance and justice systems to climate resilience, infrastructure and social equity — with innovative thinking and a commitment to long-term impact.
For more information, please see www.dt-global.com
The Role
The Supplier will provide resources for a comprehensive assessment of the Government of Samoa’s capacity development ecosystem and the development of practical, evidence-based and implementation-ready recommendations to strengthen the planning, coordination, financing, delivery, and sustainability of public sector capability development. This includes consideration for the political, institutional, and operational conditions required to enable reform and ensure sustainable action. The assignment will move beyond diagnostic analysis to support the development of tools, governance arrangements, digital transformation, financing options, and collaboration with Samoa’s development partners.
A Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), accessibility, safeguarding and workforce wellbeing lens will be applied across all components of the assessment, stakeholder engagement processes, analysis, recommendations and deliverables. Rather than treating these as standalone themes, the assessment will examine how they influence participation, capability development outcomes, leadership opportunities, institutional performance and long-term sustainability across the capacity development ecosystem.
The supplier will establish a clear, accessible complaints and referral pathway for participants and stakeholders to raise any grievances or complaints, including safeguarding concerns arising during data collection, consultations or workshops, including protocols for referring Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) or child protection concerns in line with DT Global’s mandatory reporting obligations.
The Supplier will undertake the following indicative tasks:
- Stocktake and ecosystem Mapping.
- Access capability outcomes from CD investments.
- Analysis of political economy, financing and institutional arrangements.
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Develop a CD masterplan.
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Selection Criteria
Potential Suppliers must address the following criteria in their application. Proposals will be assessed on best overall value for money basis, with technical quality a primary consideration.
- Demonstrate access to a multidisciplinary team with expertise across the areas outlined below:
- Team leader/ Capacity Development and Institutional Reform Specialist
- Governance, Political Economy and Change Management Specialist
- Public Finance, Financing and Value-for-Money Specialist
- Learning Systems, Workforce Capability and MERLA Specialist
- GEDSI, Accessibility, safeguarding and Workforce Wellbeing Specialist
- Stakeholder Engagement and Samoa Context Specialist
- Research, Analysis, Report Writing and Project Coordination Support
- Quality of the technical proposal.
- At least 15 years’ collective work experience in capacity development including within the Pacific Island contexts or similar small state or development settings.
- DT Global will award a contract to the Supplier who offers the best overall value for money, considering both the proposal’s technical merit and its pricing competitiveness.
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Cowater International is Looking for Panel of Translator and Interpreter for Prospera Phase 2 Program in Indonesia.
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The Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) initiative is funded by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. It assists ASEAN Member States (AMS) in meeting their commitments and realising the advantages offered by the Agreement establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, or AANZFTA, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.
The Governments of Australia and New Zealand have committed up to AUD 53.3 million to fund RT4D from 2020–21 to 2027–28.
Project Summary
The AANZFTA Implementation Support Program (AISP), implemented through the Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) Facility, supports ASEAN Member States to realise the benefits of AANZFTA through capacity-building support and access to technical expertise.
The project ‘API Standards, Roles and Benefits to Facilitate Cross-Border E-commerce in AANZFTA’ is approved under the AISP. The project aims to strengthen understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) standards and their potential role in facilitating cross-border e-commerce across AANZFTA Parties. It will:
- develop a study on the roles and benefits of API standards in facilitating cross-border e-commerce;
- review policy, legal and regulatory frameworks, technical readiness and implementation gaps across AANZFTA Parties;
- examine relevant regional and international standards, good practices, guidelines, adoption opportunities and constraints relating to API interoperability;
- conduct structured desk research, requests for information to AANZFTA Parties, targeted interviews and consultations with public- and private-sector stakeholders;
- develop practical recommendations and ways forward to support policymakers in strengthening relevant legal and regulatory frameworks;
- deliver a two-day regional workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, to discuss the study’s findings and recommendations, strengthen stakeholder knowledge and facilitate practical knowledge exchange; and
- finalise the study and develop a short public summary for dissemination through AANZFTA and ASEAN working groups.
The Opportunity
RT4D is seeking a consulting firm/organisation or consortium (hereinafter referred to as “the Consultant”) to manage and deliver both technical and event organisation services for the project, in close collaboration with the RT4D Facility, the Viet Nam E-commerce Agency (iDEA), the ASEAN Secretariat Digital Economy Division and the AANZFTA Committee on E-commerce. Final Project outputs will be subject to comments, amendments, and approval from the RT4D Facility Team, the Project Proponent, the ASEAN Secretariat Digital Economy Division, the AANZFTA Committee on E-commerce and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The services will be delivered in accordance with the requirements set out in the Request for Proposal (RFP) and Terms of Reference (ToR).
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Cowater International is recruiting a Senior Manager (Multilateral Engagement) for Prospera Phase 2 Program in Indonesia.
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Program Background
The Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has commissioned the Partnerships for Social Protection program (P4SP), which is being implemented by DT Global.
P4SP is an eight year, AUD 36 million Australian Government program to support governments in Pacific nations and to strengthen their national social protection systems. The program delivers both bilateral and regional activities to support partners to improve the quality, inclusiveness and sustainability of social protection systems, and to build awareness of, and demand for, quality and inclusive social protection. P4SP is a highly adaptive and demand-driven program. As such, the operating context, and the priorities of government and DFAT Posts in each country are key determinants for the scope of P4SP’s engagement.
The outcome P4SP is working towards is that government's increasingly address gaps and bottlenecks in the coverage and inclusiveness of social protection policy and program delivery.
P4SP commenced on 20 September 2021 and will operate until 19 September 2029.
For more information, please see https://p4sp.org
About DT Global Asia Pacific
At DT Global Asia Pacific, we aim to positively impact people’s lives through delivery excellence. As a leading implementing partner across Asia and the Pacific, we co-create locally led solutions in partnership with governments, communities, and stakeholders. We bring together talented teams and deep regional expertise to deliver initiatives that promote inclusive economic growth, essential services, and resilient, secure communities. With over 1,500 staff, experts in 22+ countries and more than 60 years of development experience, we tackle complex community, national and transnational challenges — from governance and justice systems to climate resilience, infrastructure and social equity — with innovative thinking and a commitment to long-term impact.
For more information, please see www.dt-global.com
Objectives of Role
The role has three interrelated objectives, each contributing to P4SP's Phase II quantitative research program.
The first objective is to build a stronger and more comparable evidence base from existing Pacific data. By cleaning, harmonising and analysing household survey and population datasets across multiple Pacific Island Countries, the role will help deepen regional understanding of poverty, vulnerability and inequality, and of how social protection programs are reaching and supporting households. This includes generating cross-country insights on coverage, adequacy and the role of transfers in household welfare and shock response, with consistent attention to differences by gender, disability, age, geography and vulnerability status.
The second objective is to support the delivery of a major piece of quantitative research involving primary data collection. The Quantitative Research Analyst will contribute across the study cycle, from informing design choices and sampling, through to supporting data quality during fieldwork and producing clean, well-documented datasets and analysis. In doing so, the role will help ensure the study generates new, high-quality evidence on social protection that fills gaps in what existing surveys can tell us, and that it is grounded in sound methods and transparent documentation.
The third objective is to strengthen P4SP's ability to respond quickly and credibly to emerging policy priorities. By providing just-in-time analysis, scenario modelling and inputs to costing and simulation tools, the role will support timely policy dialogue with partner governments and DFAT, and help translate quantitative evidence into practical inputs for program design, financing and delivery decisions.
Across all three areas, the role aims to uphold high standards of data quality, reproducibility and documentation, so that the analytical work produced under Phase II can be built on, verified and shared within P4SP and with partners over the life of the program.
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Selection Criteria
Essential Experience and Knowledge
- Advanced degree in development economics, statistics or a related fieldAdvanced degree in development economics, statistics or a related field
- At least three years' relevant professional experience in applied quantitative research, or equivalent demonstrated experience through postgraduate research.
- Demonstrated ability to work with household-level survey data (e.g. HIES or similar), including data cleaning, variable construction, and descriptive analysis.
- Experience managing large and complex datasets, including merging multiple data sources and documenting assumptions.
- Practical experience using statistical software, such as Stata, R or Python for applied policy research.
- Ability to write clear, well-commented, and reproducible code.
- Sound understanding of weighting, sampling design, means/ proportions, confidence intervals, and cross-tabulation.
- Ability to translate quantitative findings into clear tables, charts, and short analytical notes for non-technical audiences.
- Ability to undertake econometric analysis to estimate the effects of social protection programs, contributing to academic papers
- Capacity to work to deadlines and respond to iterative analytical requests from the P4SP team.
- Commitment to respectful and ethical research practices.
Desirable
- Experience working in the Pacific or across Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- Experience working with, or alongside, Pacific national statistics offices, line ministries or regional organisations, such as SPC.
- Knowledge of the social protection sector.
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Senior Coordinator Scholarships
Australia Awards Philippines
Support the delivery of scholarships and learning opportunities that strengthen education, leadership and development outcomes in the Philippines.
Location: Manila, Philippines | Full-time | One-year fixed-term contract with possibility of extension
Must have valid work rights in the Philippines
- Coordinate scholarship delivery across the participant lifecycle for a flagship Australian Government program.
- Support scholar selection, mobilisation, participant administration and stakeholder engagement.
- Contribute to high-quality, participant-centred program delivery across scholarships, short courses and related activities.
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Cowater is recruiting a Knowledge Management and Communications Advisor to support the SPRING program in the Philippines
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Cowater is recruiting a Multimedia Associate based in the Philippines to support the SPRING program.
Summary
The Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) initiative is funded by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. It assists ASEAN Member States (AMS) in meeting their commitments and realising the advantages offered by the Agreement establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, or AANZFTA, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.
Through the AANZFTA Implementation Support Program (AISP) and the RCEP Implementation Support Program (RISP), RT4D provides tailored support to enhance the capabilities of ASEAN Member States by strengthening skills, building networks, facilitating policy options and ensuring that trade benefits everyone, including Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), women and people with disability.
The Governments of Australia and New Zealand have committed up to AUD 53.3 million to fund RT4D from 2020–21 to 2027–28.
Project Summary
The AANZFTA Implementation Support Program (AISP), implemented through the Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) Facility, supports ASEAN Member States to realise the benefits of AANZFTA through capacity-building support and access to technical expertise.
The project ‘Promoting AANZFTA through Communications and Business Engagement’ is approved under the AISP. The project aims to strengthen understanding and utilisation of AANZFTA among government and business stakeholders by communicating the value, relevance and practical benefits of the AANZFTA Upgrade and AISP. It will:
- conduct stakeholder consultations with government representatives, business associations, chambers of commerce, MSMEs, women-led enterprises, disability-inclusive enterprises and other relevant organisations;
- assess how businesses, including MSMEs, understand, access and use relevant AANZFTA provisions, including Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation, E-commerce and MSME-related provisions;
- deliver two business roundtable discussions to strengthen dialogue between government bodies and private-sector stakeholders, and capture business-relevant insights, barriers and recommendations;
- develop three business explainers on priority topics identified through stakeholder consultations and roundtable discussions;
- adapt existing AANZFTA information materials produced through previous projects, including the MSME Handbook, to strengthen their practical value and accessibility for business audiences;
- develop four case studies demonstrating the success and practical benefits of AISP-supported activities;
- produce one video highlighting the key benefits and achievements of the AANZFTA Upgrade after one year of implementation; and