Consultancy services on E-commerce and Mentoring course for SMEs in Lac Duong District

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI):

COFFEE AGROFORESTRY ENHANCEMENT FOR REDD+ (CAFÉ-REDD+) PROJECT IN LAM DONG

CONSULTANCY SERVICES ON E-COMMERCE AND MENTORING COURSE FOR SMEs IN LAC DUONG DISTRICT

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 CAFÉ-REDD+

SNV has obtained funding from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) for a project entitled ‘Coffee Agroforestry and Forest Enhancement for REDD+ in Lam Dong’ (CAFÉ-REDD), from 2018-2024. The project aims to establish and develop a public-private-producer partnership (4P) for forest landscape conservation and restoration in one of Lam Dong’s most important forested landscapes - the Lang Biang Biosphere Reserve comprised of Bi Doup Nui Ba National Park and surrounding agricultural land in Lac Duong District.

Activities of the project include; i) strengthening public sector capacity for climate smart/sustainable land use planning and collaborative management of forests with communities, ii) working with coffee-buying companies to improve monitoring and traceability systems to prevent deforestation in supply chains; and iii) investing in (mainly ethnic minority) smallholder farmers to promote climate smart, sustainable coffee production techniques leading to improved coffee quality and prices, whilst also promoting landscape restoration through mixed agroforestry systems and alternative livelihoods.

Playing a crucial dimension of Public – Private – Producer – Partnership (4Ps) approach throughout SNV’s development programs in general and Café-REDD project in particular, an environmental and social-inclusive business networking has been established and committed to deforestation-free value chains and farmer's prosperity with the active operation of over 15 SMEs in Lam Dong province.

To build up the capacity for SMEs, Café-REDD project has organized three intensive technical training courses that are relevant to Business Plan, sales skills, and Human Resource Management in 2023 and 2024. The courses provided a solid knowledge background for the enterprises to start up develop the strategies and establish essential business foundations for SMEs. Moreover, the project also operates the digital traceability systems for fourteen SMEs and provides 250,000 QR Code stamps to demonstrate and transparent their supply chains to the end users.

The overall objective of the assignment is training on E-commerce and digital marketing specifically designed for SMEs to improve the capacity of the enterprises on digital sales and then building specific and feasible business development strategies including adapting environment-friendly and social inclusion requirements for >3 selected SMEs.

DETAILED TASKS

The expected tasks to meet this objective are as follows:

1. Develop the training material on topics on E-commerce and digital marketing.
2. Provide two-day training courses for SMEs.
3. Review the SMEs’ profiles and select > three SMEs for mentoring courses under consultation with Café-REDD team.
4. Mentor the selected SMEs to develop feasible business development plans.
5. Prepare final report and recommendations (Vietnamese).

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.