Consultancy Services for IPSARD’s Project

The Australia – Vietnam economic reform (Aus4Reform) program works with the Vietnamnese Government to boost productivity and competiveness in Vietnam by supporting the developmentof quality policies, laws, and institutions through advocacy, consultation, and by strengthening the evidence base for economic policies – drawing on intermational exxerience and expertise, especially from Australia.

Aus4Reform aims to help the Gov achieve these objectives via 05 components:

• Building more competitive and transparent markets and business enabling environment
• Ensuring markets operate competitively in consumer and national economic interests
• Facilitating the restucturing of the rural economy
• Greater business and women’s voice in investment climate and economic restructuring issues
• A flexible fund to respond to emerging bottlenecks to productivity growth and innovation

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (Central Institute for Economic Management) is the governing body and coordinator of the Program. Implementing agencies of the Program include: Ministry of Industry and Trade (Vietnam Competition and Consumer Protection Authority); Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development), Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Central Economic Commission, Economic Committee of the National Assembly and some localities.

The study “ Opportunities and challenges for Vietnam’s agricultural trade in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and policy recommendations” implemented by the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) aims at identifying the Covid-19 pandemic’s impacts on Vietnam’s key agricultural products trade, then providing a scientific basis for developing of national strategies, plans, target programs, and schemes of agriculture and rural development sector in a new context.

IPSARD is looking for 03 national consultants to do the tasks as follows:

1. Overview of impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on the global trade of agricultural products
2. Questionnaires design and synthesis report, policy brief writing
3. Data entry and analysis

Intereted candidates could send application documents to: room 302, IPSARD, 16 Thuy Khue, Hanoi or Email: [email protected]

Deadline : 5/9/2020