Consultancy Services for IPSARD’S Project

The Australia – Vietnam economic reform (Aus4Reform) program works with the Vietnamnese Government to boost productivity and competiveness in Vietnam by supporting the developmentof quality policies, laws, and institutions through advocacy, consultation, and by strengthening the evidence base for economic policies – drawing on intermational  exxerience and expertise, especially from Australia.

Aus4Reform aims to help the Gov achieve these objectives via 05 components:

• Building more competitive and transparent markets and business enabling environment
• Ensuring markets operate competitively in consumer and national economic interests
• Facilitating the restucturing of the rural economy
• Greater business and women’s voice in investment climate and economic restructuring issues
• A flexible fund to respond to emerging bottlenecks to productivity growth and innovation

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (Central Institute for Economic Management) is the governing body and coordinator of the Program. Implementing agencies of the Program include: Ministry of Industry and Trade (Vietnam Competition and Consumer Protection Authority); Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development), Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Central Economic Commission, Economic Committee of the National Assembly and some localities.

The project “Facilitating the restucturing of the rural economy”implemented by the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development aims at promoting economic restrucuring in rual areas and increasing productivity of rural people. The project is looking for 03 national consultants as follows:

• Review on agricultural vocational education and training policies in Vietnam
• Review on international experiences in agricultural vocational training development
• Write synthesis report and policy brief about research on agricultural vocational training in Vietnam

Intereted candidates could send application documents to: room 302, IPSARD, 16 Thuy Khue, Hanoi or Email: [email protected]

Deadline : 10/6/2020