Deadline: 30 September 2015
Irish Aid is supporting civil society organizations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR in order to reduce poverty and support citizen’s rights and responsibilities to participate in and influence decisions that affect their lives.
Civil SocietyOrganisations are not just channels for delivering much needed services, particularly to the poor and hard to reach, but also can make a strategic contribution to development processes, strengthen accountability of government, pilot new approaches and provide innovative ideas to inform government policy.
Objective
The overall objective of Irish Aid’s support to Civil Society Organisations is to increase and improve Civil Society’s role in the national development and democratization process with focus on:
- Organisational Capacity Assessments;
- Monitoring of individual projects against stated objectives;
- Capacity building and networking; and
- Facilitating the coordination of CSO efforts supported by Irish Aid
Funding Mechanisms
- The Vietnam Civil Society Facility – €1,730,000 per annum approximately.
- The Regional Initiatives (Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR) – €650,000 per annum approximately.
- Clearance of Mines and Unexploded Ordnance (Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR) – €1,200,000 per annum approximately.
Eligibility Criteria
- Consulting firms, coalitions, a group of individual consultants and NGOs are eligible to apply for the funds.
- A team should demonstrate the following skills:
- Post-graduate degree in economics, social development, organisation management or related fields;
- Extensive knowledge and experience of result-based management, as well as participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies and approaches;
- Extensive knowledge and experience of organisational development, capacity building, resultbased management, as well as strategic planning;
- Extensive experience in providing strategic recommendations for human resource and organisational development;
- Extensive experience in providing strategic recommendations for development of programming/ strategies;
- Extensive experience in advocacy, communication and media, NGO branding;
- Extensive experience in working with development partners, NGOs, and central and local government;
- Demonstrated analytical, communication and report writing skills;
- Training and facilitation experience;
- Fluency in written and spoken Vietnamese and English;
- The consultant(s) should not have been involved in the project design or implementation of projects funded by Irish Aid in any form.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can submit expression of interest and proposals at the address mentioned on the PDF.
For more information, please download the PDF.
