The ILO Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work project in Viet Nam has completed its first independent mid-term evaluation in June 2024, and the recommendations included stronger focus on strategic upscaling of generated results and intensive sharing of learning between national stakeholders at all levels. Upscaling of results gained through pilot testing (by essence done in a limited and controlled environment) remains one of the challenging areas in the methodology of market systems development. However, upscaling is required to provide the project interventions their ultimate validity, permits reevaluating the project hypotheses, and eventually shapes the project's impact. Therefore, the project in Viet Nam intends to conduct a thorough review of the partnerships and project interventions that have been established under all three layers of project work (from policy to sectoral and enterprise components). This review will be based on the best practices in results-oriented programming in development projects, the widely accepted market systems development (MSD) methodology, and MSD for employment (MSD4E) approaches. For more details please refer to the enclosed TOR. Interested consultants should submit the following documents, by 25th November 2024 to
[email protected]: CVs with a short summary of the profile and capacity of the contractor to undertake the assignment, including a record of relevant work executed in the past five years and references. A short proposal on how the contractor intends to complete the work described in the TOR. In case a national expert is needed, a description on her/his scope of work. The proposal should include a clear timeline with suggested dates for the implementation of the assignment. A cost proposal.