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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Sir/Madam,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Participatory Governance Assessment (PGA) is a tool developed by UN-REDD and piloted in 4 countries namely Nigeria, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. PGA is a truly inclusive
process involving different stakeholders from government, civil society, private sector and academia with the view to produce robust and credible governance information as the first step to improve governance weaknesses, and in the long run be the basis for
policy reform, and if used strategically by civil society actors has the potential to serve as an accountability mechanism.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The main objective of a Participatory Governance Assessment is for the PGA to feed into Viet Nam’s broader REDD+ process. This is deemed important in order to understand the
level of participation of forest dependent communities who will be affected by the implementation of REDD+, but also jointly agree on how governance challenges and shortcomings may be met and improved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">UNDP Vietnam seeks 04 qualified National consultants to complete the data collection and analysis stage of the PGA process in Lam Dong province.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Details of the assignment and application instruction can be found from Procurement Notice at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=14986">http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=14986</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The selection will be based on a competitive basis and will comply with UNDP procurement regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interested offerors are invited to submit CV, writing samples and financial proposal to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Procurement Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">UNDP Viet Nam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">72 Ly Thuong Kiet, Ha Noi, Viet Nam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tel. (84-4) 3 9421495<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Telefax number: (84-4) 3 9422267<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Email:
<a href="mailto:nguyen.thuy.nga@undp.org">nguyen.thuy.nga@undp.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Extended deadline: 09 April 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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