The Good Governance and Public Administration Reform programme (2012-2015) consists of 3 components:
1) Public Administration Reform (PAR) component;
2) Human Rights Education and Research component.
3) Public Participation and Accountability component.
The three components represent interventions in important areas of reforms, each of which aim to promote concepts and means of improving public management and democratic accountability. The overall development objective for the programme is:
“To strengthen the development of democratic governance and public management and accountability in Vietnam”.
In component 3, support to Non-Governmental Organisations is included (Sub-component 3.2) with the following immediate objective:
“To promote public participation and accountability in law-making and policy development processes by strengthening engagement of Non-Governmental Organisations in these processes at national and sub-national levels as well as in monitoring the implementation of these.”.
The present contract refers to this sub-component only.The support to NGOs is provided through a Grant Scheme Mechanism, which consists of a Grant Fund and a Capacity Building Facility. The Grant Fund, called the Public Participation and Accountability Facilitation Fund (PARAFF) will pay special attention to marginalized groups in society and women. PARAFF will be administrated by a Fund Manager, which will be recruited internationally. The PARAFF Fund Manager will work within the parameter given by the Steering Committee. The Fund Manager will also provide technical assistance for capacity development to grantees (possibly as part of a Capacity Building Facility) in the areas of governance, project management, administration, financial management, accounting, procurement, reporting and/or any other requirements that may be specified in the grant applications.
Grantees will be supported through Core Funding Grants (multi-annual and against an organisation’s strategic plan), and Small Project Grants, Research Grants. The Fund Manager will furthermore sub-contract additional specialised short-term assistance in accordance with the grant applications.
The Good Governance and Public Administration Reform Programme, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, is now tendering for a Fund Manager to manage and administrate the PARAFF.
The objective is to manage and administer grants in support to NGO initiatives and provide administrative technical assistance and capacity development activities, the latter possibly through a Capacity Building Facility.
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: DC 3113
V.1) Date of contract award decision:
31.7.2012
V.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received: 4
V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
NIRAS, DENMARK