The BRACE Programme

The overall objective of the European Union (EU)-funded Baluchistan Rural Development and Community Empowerment (BRACE) Programme is “to support the Government of Balochistan (GoB) is reducing the negative impact of economic deprivation, poverty and social inequality, environmental degradation and climate change, and to turn this into opportunities to build and empower resilient communities participating actively in identifying and implementing socio-economic development activities on a sustainable basis in partnership with local/district authorities”. DAI implements the Technical Assistance (TA) Project Component of the BRACE Programme.

As part of BRACE Specific Objective 2, the BRACE TA facilitates the GoB to design and adopt its innovative GoB Community- Led  Local-Governance (CLLG)  Policy,  which  provides  the  policy  cover  for  institutionalized  collaboration  between  local government/ authorities and mobilized/registered communities (Community Institutions/CIs) in the statutory processes of local public sector planning, financing and implementation. The Implementation of the GoB CLLG Policy will be facilitated by a GoB Local Government and Rural Development Sector Plan that clarifies the LG&RD Sector Domain, the Sector Needs, a Sector Development Strategy and expected Sector Development Outcomes, and the role the GoB CLLG Policy can play in the Sector.

 The Local Government and Rural Development Sector Plan (LGRD-SP) Assignment

Therefore, the  BRACE TA  Project seeks to  invite and  shortlist qualified established  research organizations, or  organized groups/teams of individual technical experts/consultants, to submit Proposals for an output-based “Balochistan Local Government and Rural Development Sector Plan (LGRD-SP) Assignment”. The assignment will be awarded on the basis of a comparative economic and Value-for-Money (VfM) analysis. The LGRD-SP Assignment has 4 Key Deliverables: (1) Inception Report and LGRD-SP Assignment Workplan; (2) LGRD-SP Consultations and Situation Analysis Report and Draft 1 of the LGRD SP; (3) Validations by GoB Policy-makers and the Second (of Final) Draft GoB LG&RD Sector Plan; and (4) a GoB LG&RD Sector Plan that is ready to be approved by LG&RD Department and other relevant GoB Approving Authorities. The Assignment is to be carried out over a 6 to 8 calendar months period. The Base of Operation for the LGRD-SP team is Quetta, with optional Balochistan district field visits.

 We look forward to receiving your tender which has to be sent no later than the deadline specified above. Please send it to the address and with the requirements given in point 8 “Submission of Tenders” of the Instructions to Tenderers. By submitting a tender, you accept to receive notification of the outcome of the procedure by electronic means. If you decide not to submit a tender, we would be grateful if you could inform us in writing, indicating the reasons for your decision.

 This invitation includes the following documents:

 1.    Instructions to tenderers

2.    ToR of the LGRD-SP assignment

3.    Proposed structure of the technical offer (Organisation and Methodology of the assignment).

4.    Proposed structure of the financial offer

5.    Financial ID form

6.    Legal entity form

7.    Tender Form and declaration of honor on selection criteria.

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