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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-GB">The
PARAFF secretariat in Hanoi is seeking to hire experienced Vietnamese
individual consultants or groups of consultants to conduct two training sessions:
a three-day training course on policy advocacy and a separate three-day
training course on research methods, which are planned to be organised for our
grantees in the second half of July 2014 (details are attached in Vietnamese). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">The “Public Participation and Accountability
Facilitation Fund” (PARAFF)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Public Participation and Accountability
Facilitation Fund (PARAFF) is a sub-component of the “Good Governance and
Public Administration Reform Programme, Phase II (GOPA II), agreed upon between
the Government of Denmark and Government of S.R. Vietnam. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Under PARAFF, support is provided to
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) through a Grant Fund which provides project
funding to Vietnamese NGOs on an application basis, combined with a capacity building
facility for the NGOs and key partners.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PARAFF is co-funded by Danida (Denmark) and
DfID (UK) and operates under the auspices of the Office of the National
Assembly of Vietnam.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PARAFF provides support within the
following areas: </span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b style><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">Research</span></b><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB"> on key issues related to the
legislative process, democratic governance and NGOs roles in promoting public
participation and accountability.</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b style><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">Awareness raising</span></b><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB"> of NGOs and key partners
regarding the rights and opportunities provided by the present legislation
related to public participation and accountability.</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">NGO lead initiatives on <b style>monitoring of legislative processes</b>,
implementation of government policies and budgets at national and sub-national
levels and feedback to Government and Elected representatives.</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b style><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">Strengthened networking among NGOs</span></b><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">
and other key stakeholders for enhanced engagement in legislative processes and
policy dialogues with the National Assembly and the People’s Councils, and
Government agencies at various levels.</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-GB">Institutional and organisation <b style>capacity building</b> initiatives for
enhanced NGO engagement in legislative and policy making processes and
monitoring.</span></p>
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