Expression of Interest For Impact Evaluation

Expression of Interest are invited for Impact Evaluation in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG) aims to enhance the development impact of labor mobility programs available to its citizens. With this in mind, the Government of PNG (GoPNG) has undertaken reforms to enhance the effectiveness of its labor mobilization systems which support worker mobility from PNG to Australia and New Zealand under existing bilateral labor mobility schemes. These include the transfer of the Labour Mobility Unit (LMU) to the Department of Treasury (DoT) and the decentralization of labor mobilization through the establishment of regional recruitment hubs (RRHs). In close coordination with LMU, RRH coordinators are responsible for, among others, conducting information outreach, preparing a work-ready pool (job seeker pool), selecting candidates for overseas job interviews, and supporting the reintegration of returnees. Since May 2023, the World Bank has been supporting the GoPNGs efforts to maximize the development impact of labor mobility programs through the Enhancing Labor Mobility from Papua New Guinea (ELMPNG) project. The project development objective is to strengthen government systems in PNG that support workers and their households to benefit from overseas employment opportunities. Support areas under EMLPNG would include enhancing the LMUs capacity, workers employability, equity in access to labor mobility opportunities through outreach, and the development impact of migration through successful reintegration and financial literacy training. This Impact Evaluation (IE) of Labor Mobility in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and its findings would support the GoPNG in the implementation of the ELMPNG. It will focus on evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to ease constraints in labor mobility of Papua New Guineans to Australia and New Zealand. The interventions may include conducting information outreach to ease information asymmetry in mobility opportunities, providing work-ready training to enhance the capacity of workers, testing systematic ways to select candidates for overseas job interviews to improve transparency in the candidate selection process, and enhancing the financial capacity of migrants and their families to enhance the development impact of migration and resulting remittances. This IE project is under the umbrella of the World Banks Pacific Labor Mobility Analytical project implemented by the World Banks Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice. Tender Link : https://wbgeprocure-rfxnow.worldbank.org/rfxnow/public/advertisement/index.html