National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial and selected public services. Towards this purpose, the Government of India has availed a credit from International Development Association and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the National Rural Livelihoods Project (NRLP) which aims to support the NRLM.
NRLP has invited applications from Consultants who fulfill the following criteria:
Mandatory:
- The agency should have at-least eight years experience of providing similar services to large scale community based rural livelihoods programs.
- The agency should have at least 5 years’ experience in strategic recruitment of professionals at leadership and operational levels, both at the national and state level.
- The agency should have helped set up program management systems including fiduciary assurance mechanisms to at least 3 large scale projects in the past five years for National/State level government projects, preferably supported by bilateral or multi-lateral agencies.
- Should have minimum annual turnover of Rs. 6 crore or above for last three years.
Desirable:
- A lead agency, who could form a consortium of agencies that bring together diverse experiences in large scale program management, strategic recruitment and placement of development professionals and grassroots implementation of community development programs will bepreferred.
The total duration of the consultancy services will be one year, and it should begin in January, 2012. The initial contract of 12 months from the date of signing of contract during which key hiring would be completed. Depending on annual performance review of the selected agency, and available budget, the contract can be extended further on a 12 monthly basis, with mutual agreement up to maximum of total 3 years.
Expressions of interest with the accompanying material should be submitted to the Mission Director, NRLM.
Last day of submission October 3, 2011. The submission can be made between 11.00 to 17.00 hrs at the address below.
Please note that no proposals are required now. On the basis of information provided by interested Consultants, the project will prepare a shortlist of up to 6 Consultants who will be invited to submit proposals.
Contact details:
Mission Director, National Rural Livelihood Mission
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
Room 249, Krishi Bhavan,
New Delhi, India
Phone: 011-23386553
email: mdnrlmindia@gmail.com
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