REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
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Title of the EOI:
Procurement of Collaboration Knowledge Products for Long-Term Debt Sustainability Coalition
Date of this EOI: 26 February 2026 Closing Date for Receipt of EOI: 3 March 2026
EOI Number: EOIUNECA24211
Beneficiary Country/Territory: Ethiopia
Commodity/Service category: Professional Services
Address EOI response by fax or e-mail to the Attention of: Mr. Mikiyas Goshu / Mrs. Rachael Chironga/ Ms. Aster Zewde
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This collaboration for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa is designed to support climate resilient debt sustainability by advancing a coherent analytical and policy framework structured around three pillars: Macroeconomic Policies for Climate Resilient Debt, Mineral Value Chains for Structural Debt Sustainability, and Financing Innovative Sustainable Debt Solutions through Strategic Partnerships.
I. Introduction
The collaboration is grounded in the premise that long term debt sustainability is achieved through deliberate macroeconomic and structural policy choices that shape the real economy, create long lived productive and resilience assets, and strengthen sovereign balance sheets over time. It therefore places macroeconomic policy design, value chain development, and debt management considerations at the center of climate and development strategies, rather than treating them as separate or sequential agendas.
The work is conceived as a knowledge product and practical guide to inform the Sustainable Debt Coalition, for which UNECA serves as Interim Secretariat. It is intended to support Ministries of Finance, debt management offices, and senior economic authorities in translating climate objectives and development priorities into macroeconomic policies, structural transformation pathways, and financing solutions that expand fiscal space, preserve fiscal credibility, and improve debt sustainability.
II. Background and Rationale
Developing countries and emerging economies are operating at a time when global financial conditions are tightening, debt service costs are rising, and access to external borrowing is becoming more constrained. These pressures are occurring against the backdrop of a persistent global financing gap for sustainable development, estimated at around USD 4 trillion annually, which continues to limit the capacity of countries to invest in economic transformation, climate resilience, and social priorities.
At the same time, international climate commitments are entering a more operational phase. COP30 concluded with outcomes that included commitments to mobilize USD 1.3 trillion annually for climate action by 2035, alongside an acceleration of adaptation finance and implementation. These developments signal a new phase in international cooperation, in which climate aligned financing is increasingly expected to function as an integral component of development strategies rather than as a parallel agenda.
In this context, climate finance, mineral endowments, and domestic fiscal capacity constitute strategic assets for developing countries and emerging economies. The challenge is not their availability in isolation, but their integration within macro fiscal strategies that expand fiscal space, improve debt sustainability, attract investment, and support long term development trajectories aligned with climate objectives. Without such integration, countries risk facing rising debt vulnerabilities alongside growing climate and infrastructure needs.
Africa’s position within this transition is shaped by its significant green and critical mineral endowment and its industrialization and electrification potential. Under the African Green Minerals Strategy, Africa is recognized as holding a substantial share of the minerals required for the global energy transition, while also facing a large, unrealized electrification market, with over 600 million people still lacking access to electricity. This combination underscores both the scale of opportunity and the importance of translating mineral wealth into productive capacity, value chains, and durable fiscal strength rather than relying on extractive revenues alone.
The rationale for this collaboration is therefore to address debt sustainability through a forward-looking policy lens that connects macroeconomic policy choices, mineral based value chain development, and partnership enabled financing solutions. By aligning these elements within a coherent sovereign framework, countries can shift expenditure and investment decisions today in ways that reduce future fiscal pressures, external vulnerabilities, and adjustment costs, while strengthening long term debt trajectories and economic
resilience.
III. Objectives
The overall objective of the collaboration is to support developing countries and emerging economies in expanding fiscal space, strengthening climate resilient debt sustainability, and advancing long term development by aligning macroeconomic policies, mineral value chain strategies, and innovative financing solutions within a coherent and borrower led framework.
Specifically, the UNECA knowledge products’ collaboration aims to develop analytical foundations, policy tools, macro fiscal frameworks, and practical guidance that can be leveraged by Ministries of Finance and
economic authorities to:
Design and implement macroeconomic policies for climate resilient debt, including fiscal and pricing measures that support green and blue value chains while preserving fiscal credibility and consistency with long term debt sustainability.
Advance mineral value chains for structural debt sustainability, by linking industrialization, electrification, and technological upgrading to productivity growth, economic diversification, and stronger sovereign balance sheets over time.
Enable financing innovative sustainable debt solutions through strategic partnerships, by demonstrating how catalytic resources can be combined with sovereign debt operations and market instruments to finance climate aligned investments, generate fiscal space, and improve debt trajectories rather than add to debt burdens.
Through this integrated approach, the collaboration reinforces the principle that long term debt sustainability is achieved through forward looking macroeconomic policy design, structural transformation, and disciplined financing strategies that place resilience, productivity, and value creation at the center of economic strategy…
The proposed implementation of the project period is for Six months
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