Consultant for Labor Market Study

Helvetas, founded in 1955, is the largest Swiss-based and leading European development non-governmental organization. We work in developing, emerging and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, partnering with poor and disadvantaged people to improve their livelihoods, strengthen local actors and create an institutional framework conducive to sustainable development. Helvetas has been operating in Vietnam since 1994 in the areas of agriculture, forestry, governance, water and sanitation, and rural development.

Helvetas Vietnam, in a consortium with WWF, IUCN and Fauna and Flora International (FFI), was recently selected to implement USAID’s Vietnam Biodiversity Conservation, a five-year project covering five provinces of central Vietnam. Helvetas Vietnam has the overall responsibility for the conservation-friendly enterprise development component, targeting forest-dependent communities bordering national parks in Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, and Lam Dong provinces.

We are looking for a national consultant/consultant team to undertake a labor market study to identify a range of potential employment opportunities for former hunters and loggers, their families, and other vulnerable members of forest-dependent communities. The consultancy would also identify potential partner companies and other institutions to join with the project in providing employment opportunities. The attached Scope of Work (SOW) describes the objectives and tasks for conducting this labor market study.

Interest candidates, please send an updated CV and detailed proposal in English to Helvetas.vietnam@helvetas.org and trieu.tuanh@helvetas.org before October 22nd, 2021. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.