OBJECTIVE(S) AND SCOPE OF THE CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENT

The overall objective of the assignment is to enhance the COMESA eLearning web-based platform and to design, develop and deploy eLearning Modules on COMESA customs and trade facilitation instruments with particular emphasis on the COMESA Rules of Origin which aimed at  rolling out an interactive online digital eLearning platforms to provide continuous training to Government Officials (Issuing officers and customs officers, trade experts ) and to stakeholders from private sector (including exporters, importers, customs clearing agents, freight forwarders, and shippers ) in the COMESA Member States.

The scope of the Consultancy service is to enhance COMESA eLearning platform in official languages (English, French and Arabic) supported by Mobile Application of the platform, multiple interactive, gamified, user friendly techniques and online training materials which contains multimedia content (pictures, animations, audio and video-based learning), readings, user registration and tracking, assessments and quizzes content on COMESA trade facilitation instruments focusing on COMESA Rules of Origin (ROO) and electronic certificate of origin (e-CO) as per the COMESA standards and requirements.  The Consulting firm should consider a format that can be enabled through offline (Flash Memory or similar external disk) and online modalities and hence the digitized material should be designed in a way that enables it to be housed on the COMESA eLearning website. The e-learning platform would be synchronized with face-to-face training sessions taking place in the Member States.