Usaid Trade

4 months ago


مصر, Egypt Palladium Group, Inc. Full time

**USAID TRADE - Consultancy Senior Risk Assessment Advisor**

**Project Overview and Role**:
***Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Background on the assignment**

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The USAID TRADE Project is focused on enhancing trade and investment policies, as well as the regulatory and institutional framework, as outlined in result 3. This encompasses five key areas of focus. The second area aims to expedite and streamline the movement of goods across borders, aligning with the provisions of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and international best practice.

Ministerial Decree No. 283 amended the export/import regulation established by Ministerial Decree No. 770 of 2005. This addition, Bis Article No. 94, empowers GOEIC to institute a risk management system specifically tailored to the inspection and testing procedures of imported non-food and industrial commodities. This ensures that these operations are conducted selectively based on established disciplines and rules for evaluating risk factors. On the other hand, the second ministerial decree, No. 284, is dedicated to forming a high committee tasked with defining the disciplines and rules for implementing a risk management system within GOEIC for the inspection of imported non-food and industrial goods, considering the feedback from the related private sector’s stakeholders.
The overarching objective of TRADE’s support to GOEIC in this area is to expedite the release process and reduce associated costs for imported industrial goods and production supplies. To achieve this, the direct aim of this assignment is to support the formed GOEIC Technical Working Group in conducting a science-based risk assessment for the non-food & industrial consumer products (Electrical Appliances Sector), listed in the attached annexes No. (3) & (8) of the Executive Regulations of the Law No. 118 / 1975, issued by the Ministerial decree No. 770 / 2005, that evaluates, determines, develop a risk assessment matrix with risk levels for the products mentioned before, conduct training & coaching for the TWG’s members on Risk Assessment according to a Training Needs Assessment to be developed for that purpose considering the international best practices in this domain.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**

**The consultant is required to perform the following tasks**:

- ** **Develop a term of reference for the Technical Working Group for electrical appliances, i.e., objectives and functions of the working group, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for conducting a consumer product risk assessment, setting a mechanism to classify the expected Product Risk, what Criteria to use, what roles/competencies are needed within the group, etc. GOEIC should be able to use the same terms of reference for other working groups with minor modifications.
- Based on the Technical Working Group Term of Reference (should be approved by GOEIC’s leadership), the consultant develops a training needs assessment report for the TWG’s members.
- Develop a science-based risk assessment procedure to evaluate, determine, classify, and quantify the risks of consumer products for electrical appliances listed in the Annexes 3 and 8 of the Ministerial Decree No. 770 of 2005, according to the well-recognized international guidelines and methods in this field.
- Prepare a risk assessment matrix with risk levels for each product of the electrical appliances in the said list, taking into consideration relevant EU Directives, and any other literature to benefit from their methods followed in this regard, i.e., how to assess risk, and how that risk can be mitigated.
- Conduct a training & coaching according to the training needs assessment that should include the following:

- Identification of the hazard that is intrinsic to each product.
- The determination of the probabilities and severities of the respective consumer injuries scenarios that could take place by the intrinsic product hazard.
- The combination of hazards with the probabilities in order to determine the overall risk for each product.

**Deliverables**:

- ** **Develop GOEIC consumer product risk assessment matrix and procedures (per above).
- Submit a report with the TOR for the Technical Working Group (per above).
- Submit a training needs assessment report (per above)
- Conduct training & coaching programs according to the training needs assessment.
- Develop a list of recommendations focusing on the best way according to the international best practices to be electronically connected to the existing cross border e-RBI system (Electronic Risk Based Inspection System).
- Submit brief consultancy report describing the purpose of the consultancy, details of activity implementation (main tasks delivered, progress achieved, lessons learned), observations, challenges encountered, detailed recommendations with the next steps.
- Submit a PPT summarizing all tasks that have been implemented in this assignment to be presented by the consultant for


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