LRPS-2024-9192153-LTAs for Risk & Financial Management Support for New Fund Modality, TREF, for the Lebanese Education Sector

While MEHE will prepare the program budgets and payment requests with all payment details, UNICEF will execute payments directly to beneficiaries through existing and authorized financial service providers. The TP will perform ex ante and ex post due diligence and verification actions. Also, the TP will conduct capacity building activities for the central, regional and school-level financial management function and more specifically support schools in issuing regular school-level financial reports. The IST, which reports to the DGE, will support MEHE staff in meeting TREF requirements and translate them into internal MEHE procedures.

For the second funding window, UNICEF executes payments directly to beneficiaries (i.e. around 200 private school accounts). The payment items consist of lump sum to each school including enrolments, and support cost for operational and administration.

The key responsibility of the Third Party is to implement the relevant procedures of the Operational Handbook[1] of TREF in accordance with the UNICEF-MEHE Agreement and the Bilateral Agreements between UNICEF and the Contributing Partners. The responsibilities apply to both TREF funding windows.

UNICEF will be responsible for oversight of the program and processing of payments to beneficiaries in line with donor conditions while the company´s responsibility will be to review and verify data and financial management in line with the details in this TOR and perform capacity development interventions at central and school level.

UNICEF education section chief will be responsible for the overall management of the program while the TP will be working directly under the supervision of the education manager.