International consultant to conduct Market Systems Development (MSD) review of ILO project interventions in Viet Nam

The Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work Programme (PE4DW), launched jointly by the SME unit of the ILO Enterprises Department and the Employment Policy Department, together with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), aims at addressing constraints to productivity growth and decent job creation.

The ILO Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work project in Viet Nam has completed its first independent mid-term evaluation in June 2024, and the recommendations included stronger focus on strategic upscaling of generated results and intensive sharing of learning between national stakeholders at all levels. Upscaling of results gained through pilot testing (by essence done in a limited and controlled environment) remains one of the challenging areas in the methodology of market systems development. However, upscaling is required to provide the project interventions their ultimate validity, permits reevaluating the project hypotheses, and eventually shapes the project's impact.

Therefore, the project is looking to recruit an international consultant to conduct a thorough review of the partnerships and project interventions that have been established under all three layers of project work (from policy to sectoral and enterprise components). This review will be based on the best practices in results-oriented programming in development projects, the widely accepted market systems development (MSD) methodology, and MSD for employment (MSD4E) approaches.

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Interested consultants should submit the following documents, by 25 November 2024 to HAN_PROCUREMENT@ilo.org :

• CVs with a short summary of the profile and capacity of the contractor to undertake the assignment, including a record of relevant work executed in the past five years and references.

• A short proposal on how the contractor intends to complete the work described in the TOR. In case a national expert is needed, a description on her/his scope of work. The proposal should include a clear timeline with suggested dates for the implementation of the assignment.

• A cost proposal.

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For more details, please kindly consult the Terms of Reference (ToR) below.