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Oxfam in Bangladesh is going to hire a consultant (national) for Producing a VIDEO Documentaries on adaptive farming and use of technology for resilience based on PROTIC’s learning and Achievements. We are invitng for proposal from interested consultancy firm/ individual to undertake this assignment.

Background: PROTIC has been initiated to address women’s economic empowerment in agriculture for resilience. Through the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, PROTIC aims to enhance the economic situation of poor and marginalized climate change vulnerable community with relevant, comprehensive and accurate information on adaptive farming which is trustworthy and well-timed. The project aims to increase women’s participation, helps to strengthen their leadership role, and to enhance their economic situation by developing customized information systems for agriculture including crop farming, homestead gardening, fisheries, livestock, horticulture and poultry. Three hundred women farmers from the Charland, Haor and Coast have been equipped with smart mobile phone along with internet scheme. Through these mobile phones they are getting SMS, Outbound Dial (OBD), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Apps and Call Centre services on agriculture, agrometeorology, weather forecast and early warning system. The community and academic researchers from 6 universities are conducting different studies on community knowledge management with the data/information from project intervention. Since 2015 PROTIC is working for adaptive farming using technologies. The use of ICT for adaptive and sustainable agriculture has made significant progress in local economy. 

Please refer to the detailed TOR (Click Here) for this assignment.

Proposal submission Instruction:

The individual/firm must submit the following documents along with Technical & Financial Proposal (including VAT/TAX): The financial proposal should include 15% VAT ONLY. Oxfam will deduct 10% Income Tax at source from the agreed consultancy amount for national consultant and firms.

For Individual Consultant

• Maximum 2 pages profile highlighting related assignment completed with client name, contract person and mobile number along with detailed CV;
• TIN certificate and any other relevant document (if necessary).

For Consultancy Firm

• Maximum 2 pages Firm profile highlighting related assignment completed with client name, contract person and mobile number;
• Lead Consultant’s (who will lead the assignment) Maximum 2 pages CV highlighting related assignment completed, role in of the completed assignment;
• Other Team members’ (who will involve in the assignment) one paragraph short CV highlighting related assignment completed and role;
• Firm’s Certificate, TIN and VAT registration.

Please mention the assignment title “Producing a VIDEO Documentaries for PROTIC”  in the subject line during application via below mentioned email submit following two separate pdf files -

• Financial proposal
• Technical proposal should include Cover page, Table of content, understand of the assignment (pls. don’t copy & paste), experience in handling similar assignments, a work-plan, methodology, Certificate, TIN and VAT registration to hrbd@oxfam.org.uk

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Proposal submission deadline: 21 April 2018

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