Recruitment: Monitoring and evaluation consultant
Center for Research on Initiatives of Community Development (RIC)
Project: “Pilot of Community-based Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of communal infrastructures in Program 135”
TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
(Training on project management skills, monitoring and evaluation for community-based groups including people of Thuong Tien, Hop Dong and Du Sang communes (Kim Boi district)
1. The contract:
Center for Research on Initiatives of Community Development (RIC) is a non-profit organization established by decision of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA).
2. Introduction of the project:
Project “Pilot of Community-based Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of communal infrastructures in Program 135” implemented in 06 communes: Doc Lap (Ky Son district); Du Sang, Hop Dong and Thuong Tien (Kim Boi district), Ngoc Lau and Ngoc Son (Lac Son district). Projects carried out by Center for Research on Initiatives of Community Development (RIC) with funding from the Irish Aid.
The development objective of the project: reducing poverty among the poorest ethnic minority population of P135 communes in Hoa Binh province by community empowerment measures that enable sustainable community-based O&M of communal infrastructures.
The goal of the project: (i) Community (user) groups become capable and practice community O&M of communal infrastructures for their better benefits; (ii) Community (user) groups gain their rights on long-term management of communal infrastructures; and (iii) Community O&M within P135 is reaffirmed and operationalized.
Project location: includes 6 communes of Doc Lap, Du Sang, Hop Dong, Thuong Tien, Ngoc Son and Ngoc Lau.
Project duration: The project was carried out from November 2013 to November 2016.
3. Requirements:
Trainers will direct implement 4 training courses on project management, monitoring and evaluation each course lasted in 02 days (1 day for the contents of project management, 1 day of monitoring and evaluation).
4. Participants: Participants are members of the community based groups (CBG) of 3 communes Du Sang, Hop Dong and Thuong Tien of Kim Boi district, each class includes 35 participants.
5. Training time: tentative training time in August 2015
6. Trainer’s qualification: experienced trainer, preference for those who already involved in facilitating community or worked for non-government organizations.
7. Expected results of the training course: after the training course, 80% of the participants will:
- Understand the concept of a project, the project cycles life;
- Understand the project results-based management methods;
- Understand the project management methodology and skills associated with operation and maintenance;
- Understand the concept of monitoring and evaluation;
- Understand the process of monitoring and evaluation, monitoring and evaluation methods associated with operation and maintenance;
- Understand the tools of monitoring and evaluation; and
- 70% of the participants know how to make monitoring plan and evaluate operation and maintenance plan
8. Responsibilities of the trainer:
- Draft document, hand- out based on document of Promoting Community Management in Vietnam (PCM) to suit with the project target group;
- Study the project documentation to design training document feet with the project target group and the project content;
- Implement 04 two-day training courses at locality under the light of participatory methods;
- Troubleshooting of participants;
- Coordinate with project staff to organize and manage the training course;
- Providing personal information for RIC to do contract.
9. Responsibilities of RIC:
- Provide documents related to the training and the projects;
- Discuss with the trainer on training materials, training time;
- Prepare logistics for the training;
- Provide travelling and accommodation for trainer according to the project cost-norm;
- Payment of the remuneration and per diem under the contract latest after the training ended 10 days;
10. Remuneration for the trainer:
- Potential consultants send financial and capacity records for RIC prior 15 August 2015 according to the address below.
- RIC will pay consultant fees based on an agreement over the bank account and retain 10% of the total value of the contract to pay income tax for trainers as prescribed by the State. /.
Interested candidates please send CV via email/post to following contact information before 15 August 2015:
Center for Research on Initiatives of Community Development (RIC)
- Address: Zone 5, Ky Son town, Ky Son district, Hoa Binh province
- Phone: 0218 655 3348
- Email: info@ric.org.vn; hai.pcmm.hb@gmail.com
