<div dir="ltr"><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear Potential Service Providers,</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP) is a science and technology organization under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. CSIP promotes development of social enterprises and social initiatives by building a social entrepreneurship movement in Vietnam and in the SEA region. Established in 2008, CSIP aims to provide direct investment and support to people and social enterprises who apply innovative and sustainable business solutions to solve social and environmental issues.</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Recently, CSIP is supported by USAID/Vietnam to implement the project: Improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in Dong Nai, Tay Ninh and Binh Phuoc provinces (hereinafter referred to as CSIP- Inclusion 3). CSIP- Inclusion 3 aims to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities, regardless of cause, by expanding and improving rehabilitation and social services, enhancing policy implementation, and building service provider capacity of national and local government disabilities agencies as well as community disabilities organizations in targeted provinces.</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Under CSIP-Inclusion 3, CSIP would like to request for proposals from <b>eligible national consulting companies, consulting groups of professionals and non-profit organizations</b> (hereinafter-called Consultants) to provide consulting service on Gender Analysis.</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Work location: </strong>mainly in Hanoi; with business trip(s) to Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh province (if necessary).</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Period of Performance:</strong> May 2022 – July 2022</font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Detailed Terms of Reference (only in Vietnamese) is found at this link:</strong>  <strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Mc71699tXRxVyGUyorRCBEhjg_r_O1Q/view?usp=sharing" style="color:rgb(39,99,165);text-decoration-line:none">Terms of Reference</a></strong></font></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 0.5em;margin:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:1.8em;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">All proposals must be sent to <a href="mailto:procurement@csip.vn" style="color:rgb(39,99,165);text-decoration-line:none">procurement@csip.vn</a> no later than <strong>30^th, April 2022</strong> with no absence of any documents below:</font></p><ul style="letter-spacing:0.02em;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Draft design of data collection and reporting process;</font></li><li style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tentative Implementation Plan;</font></li><li style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tentative Human Resource Plan; and</font></li><li style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cost Estimates (with no travelling cost, per diem,.. included; since these expenses will be directly paid by CSIP in case of field trip to project provinces).</font></li></ul><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.26px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.26px">Thank you for your attention!</span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.26px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.26px">Best regards,</span></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><p style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Nguyen Thi Thu Hien (Ms.)</font></span></p><p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