Call for EOI: Provide services on Business training for BeCA partners

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI):
BIOENERGY FOR CIRCULAR AGRICULTURE PROJECT (BECA)
PROVIDE SERVICES ON BUSINESS TRAINING FOR BECAT PARTNERS

BACKGROUND

About SNV Netherlands Development Organization

SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation, working in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SNV is a mission-driven global development partner, rooted in the contexts and societies where we work. And that mission is to strengthen capacities and catalyse partnerships that transform the agri-food, energy, and water systems to enable sustainable and more equitable lives for all. Our global team of advisors use their specialist expertise to facilitate sustainable change in the livelihoods of millions of people living in poverty.

About BECA project

SNV has been in partnership with E-GREEN, Chinh Phat, STD&T, HD Bank and Nexus with the support of DFAT to promote biogas-to-electricity generation solution for medium-sized and large livestock farms, properly designed and sized that will provide medium and large pig farms with cheap, secure and sustainable energy. Biogas-to-electricity solution will generate electricity for internal use and for sale back into the national electricity grid reducing energy costs for farms by 20 – 30%. The reduced emissions will be linked to international carbon markets providing a revenue stream for E-GREEN, Chinh Phat, STD&T and farm owners. 

This partnership aims to promote green and sustainable livestock production by converting biogas on commercial livestock farms into clean electricity, producing organic fertilizer and stimulating green investment in the livestock sector through carbon financing. Critically, it will also contribute to Vietnam’s National Determined Contribution (NDC) by reducing GHG emissions in the growing livestock sector and by decreasing the national electrical grid dependence on coal-fired generators.

The initiative will implement the following strategies to promote women in business: 

• Prioritising women-led farms and supporting their development.     
• Equal ownership of Biogas generation systems to improve decision making in the home. 
• Flexible working conditions within the workplace, including ethical hiring standards.
• Inclusive training tailor-made to women to increase employability. 

The overall objective of the assignment is training on business training courses specifically designed for 03 partners of BeCA including EGreen, Chinh Phat and STD&T to improve the capacity of the enterprises on developing performance metrics and effectively managing.

DETAILS TASKS

The expected tasks to meet this objective are as follows:

1. Develop the training material on developing performance metrics and effectively managing based on discussion with EGreen, Chinh Phat and STD&T.
2. Provide one-day training courses for EGreen, Chinh Phat and STD&T in separately.
3. Prepare final report and recommendations (both English and Vietnamese) for EGreen, Chinh Phat and STD&T.

For more details on the Expression of Interest process, submission requirements, and evaluation details, please see corresponding sections below:

Selection Process

SNV will review all Expressions of Interest received in accordance with the guidelines and criteria in this solicitation. SNV reserves the right to exclude any EOIs that do not meet the guidelines. Please note that SNV is unable to provide detailed feedback to those EOIs that are not selected.

Step 1: SNV will shortlist selected EOIs, and unsuccessful respondents will be notified. Successful applicants will be contacted by SNV.

Step 2: SNV will release Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for the specific activities and contract with the selected organizations/ consultants.

Protection of Information

We request that Expressions of Interest responses be free of any intellectual property that the applicant wishes to protect. Should offerors wish to include proprietary intellectual property that they believe would be helpful for SNV, please note the proprietary nature of such information. Costing information will be kept confidential and will not be shared beyond SNV.

Issuance of this EOI does not constitute a commitment, award, or engagement on the part of SNV nor does it commit SNV to any future commitment or engagement.

Note: SNV reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement in the EOI/or solicitation process at any time.