TERMS OF REFERENCE
National Consultant(s) for Carrying out a study on markets of Asparagus in Gia Lai province
Background
About iDE
iDE is an international non-governmental organization with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, USA. In Vietnam, iDE has been using market-based approaches extensively and promoting pro-poor innovations for over 20 years. We work closely with the government – capacitating local agents and agencies to develop private-public partnerships to stimulate the market as an alternative approach to subsidies.
The project
iDE has been implementing the Building Markets for Enhanced Resilience in Vietnam project in 4 districts/town (K’Bang, Kong Chro, Dak Po, and An Khe) of Gia Lai province since February 2018. The main purpose of the project is to help low income farmers increase their annual income by adopting low cost micro-irrigation technology (MIT) for production of annual crops.
iDE’s key partner in this project is the provincial Agriculture Extension Center of Gia Lai.
In the proposed initiative, iDE is focusing on developing markets for MITs by working with local small-scale businesses (mostly family-run business) to create demand and distribution networks for low-cost MIT materials as well as MIT installation services and fertigation (the practice of applying fertilizers while irrigating) services. These technologies and services will be available to all customers, including both poor and non-poor, in order to make the businesses profitable.
In addition to MIT promotion to customers, the project also facilitates market linkages for MIT users as well as introduces farmers to other opportunities to be identified during the project implementation through careful market assessment of the opportunities. One of the market opportunities recently identified by the project which is of interest of buyers, farmers as well as government bodies is asparagus, which is not popular among the project districts/town. To decide whether it is a good market opportunity for farmers, iDE is seeking qualified national consultant(s) to assess the market potential of asparagus.
Study objectives
The study will help answer the following questions:
Specific scope and contents
Indicative schedule
Week of | Tasks |
Dec 2-6, 2019 | Review of documents |
Dec 9-13, 2019 | Market actors visits/interviews |
Dec 16-20, 2019 | Debriefing meeting with iDE and AEC + validation workshop with technical and market actors / key informants |
Dec 23-30, 2019 | Analysis and report preparation, incorporating feedback/inputs from the workshop |
Jan 15, 2020 | Final report |
Deliverables
A study report not longer than 20 pages in both English and Vietnamese.
Qualifications of Consultant(s)
To apply
Email [email protected] with the following documents no later than November 29, 2019: