Consultancy on Training program for women officers and managers of CBV

Created in 1970, Développement international Desjardins (DID) is a Desjardins Group Développement International Desjardins (DID) is a Canadian non-governmental organization founded in Quebec, Canada in 1970 as a non-for-profit arm in the Desjardins Group – a biggest financial group in Quebec, Canada. The goal of DID is to share the expertise and experience of the Desjardins Group with emerging and developing countries to successfully replicate its cooperative model in other countries within their specific contexts. The mission of DID is to increase empowerment among disadvantaged populations by facilitating access to a diverse range of financial services and by developing individual and community assets. For over 50 years, DID has many projects in developing countries in Africa, America and Asia. In Vietnam, the most current project of DID is “Strengthening the People’s credit fund network – STEP project” which was started since 2017. For more information about DID, please visit website: www.did.qc.ca.

Strengthening the People’s credit fund network – STEP project was launched in November 2017 and was implemented in cooperation with the Cooperative Bank of Vietnam (CBV). STEP project was funded by Global Affairs Canada with the goal to strengthen the capacity of CBV and its network of financial cooperatives, the People's Credit Funds (PCFs) in Vietnam. The overall mandate is to support and advise the CBV and PCFs network in their process of transformation and modernization in order to increase their level of integration and performance. The ultimate outcome of STEP project is to "increased financial security for Vietnamese men and women in targeted rural and agricultural areas by a more integrated and better performing CBV and PCF network”. The project aims to strengthen selected PCFs across Vietnam and, upon completion, transfer methodologies and tools to CBV, allowing it to continue deployment of the strategies throughout the entire PCFs network. For more information about STEP project, please visit website: www.did-step.com.

The project adopted a gender strategy at the beginning of its activities that includes 8 approaches: 4 of them specifically concern increasing Co-opBank commitment to provide gender advisory services to PCFs, 2 of them aim at increasing the PCFs capacity to generate sex disagreed data and gender specific products and services, and the last two approaches aim to develop greater capacity among rural women to make informed financial decisions.

In this context, the project wishes to organize a training program for women employees of Co-opBank which will strengthen their capacity in the implementation of their action plan for gender equality and the advancement of women. Please find the TOR in English HERE and Vietnamese can be found HERE.

Interested consulting firms are invited to send their proposals (both in English and Vietnamese) by email only to [email protected] clearly indicating the email subject of “Proposal DID2024 – Training program for CBV women employee."

Deadline for the submission of the Consultant proposal: June 16th, 2024, at 05:00 pm local time zone.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.