Family Latrine Construction Training Consultancy

The Vietnam Red Cross Society is a humanitarian and social organization founded on 23 November 1946 by President Ho Chi Minh who was also its first honorary President. The Society is an active member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Vietnam Fatherland Front. The society operates nationwide with seven focused area: emergency relief and humanitarian aid; health care; first aid; donation of blood, tissues, organs and bodies; tracing of relatives missing in wars, natural disasters and other disasters; dissemination on humanitarian values; participation in disaster preparedness and response.

The French Red Cross

The French Red Cross seeks to prevent and alleviate human suffering and to improve the situation of vulnerable people. The French Red Cross carries out activities in France and worldwide, in close coordination with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and their sisters organizations. The French Red Cross core areas of intervention are: social care, health, disaster preparedness and relief with a transversal emphasis on capacity building. Since 1990, the French Red Cross (FRC) has been working together with the Vietnam Red Cross (VNRC) to implement humanitarian and development activities with a special focus on community-based water and sanitation project.Within the framework of this cooperation, the French Red Cross and Vietnam Red Cross are implementing a development project in North-West provinces of Vietnam aiming at improving gender equality and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions in ethnic minority areas.

The project: “Improving gender equality and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions in ethnic minority areas” is a 3-year project funded by EuropeAid and the French Red Cross.Within the framework of this project, the VNRC and the FRC are seeking an experienced consultancy to provide the trainings on family latrine construction.The overall programme’s approach is based on community participation and involvement and the Participatory Hygiene And Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) methodology is being implemented for hygiene behaviour’s change activities as well as for planning these changes.The promotion of and support for latrine construction is a key component of this programme.

Indeed, in the 3 targeted communes, open defecation is a recurrent problem especially in the mountainous villages but is also very common in the villages located in the plains, particularly among children. Improving sanitation at household’s level through latrine construction has proved to have a strong positive impact on health particularly because it contributes to reduce drastically the occurrence and transmission of diarrhoeal and feco-oral diseases.

Besides the activities aiming at promoting hygiene and latrine’s use, latrines construction activities will therefore be supported in the 3 communes of the programme. Consistently with the overall participative approach guiding the implementation of this programme and in order to ensure the sustainability of latrine use, the villagers will contribute financially to the costs of their latrine’s building materials or/and labour force.

The VNRC and the FRC are looking for a skilled consultancy to provide a batch of qualitative and comprehensive trainings on latrine construction.Proposals should be sent to the following address:
To:
French Red Cross Delegation in Vietnam
83A Tran Quoc Toan street, 7th floor,
Hoan Kiem district, Ha Noi
Or by email at: [email protected]
With the following reference in the subject: FRC_VN212_family latrine training _Your name

If the consultant is not interested in providing the consultancy, please kindly fill the refusal form enclosed with this ToR and send it to the above mentioned address.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSAL: 21/01/2013
After the review/screening of applications, only short-listed consultants will be contacted by phone or email, and invited for an interview.

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