TOR for hiring consultant/firm to identify the demand of the municipalities

TOR for hiring consultant/firm to prepare Report and Policy brief

Background and Project Brief:

Municipal Association of Bangladesh-MAB is the platform of all the Municipalities as a major representative of the urban context of the country. Keeping pace with the trend of urbanization, this platform was formed back in 2003 with significant representation of Municipal Mayors and officials with the major objective to establish the Municipalities as appropriate urban local government to ensure proper living standards of the dwellers. MAB is performing as a facilitator and coordination body with the Urban Wing of the Local Government Division of the National Government of Bangladesh. MAB plays a pivotal role in the areas of policy formulation and implementation practices in relation to the urban areas of the country.

Municipal association of Bangladesh-MAB with collaboration of UNDP and FCDO is implementing a project titled “LIUPC-Influencing Urban Policy focusing on Governance and Poverty”. This aims to organize effective network of the urban local government bodies in Bangladesh and to develop collective approach, ways ahead to strengthen Municipalities as effective urban Local Government Institutions to deliver deserved services to the dwellers and mobilization of resources.

Under activity 1.1 of project document, a research will be conducted to identify the demand of the municipalities and assess the reflection of the demands in the 8^th five year plan. In order to do so, MAB team has already prepared a questionnaire to collect data from selected 63 municipalities and also collected data on the questionnaire.

Expected Deliverables from the consultant/firm:

To prepare a report and a policy brief, data has already been collected on 8 urban issues. The consultant/firm will be responsible for-

-          An inception report

-          A cleaned dataset of quantitative in Excel

-          Soft copy analysis table for all the variables of the questionnaire

-          A fully prepared report

-          A short policy brief

Content Outline of the Report:

-          Cover page

-           List of acronyms

-           Table of contents

-          Introduction

-          Executive summary (mentioning summary of evaluation findings/analysis/data and information).

-          Desk/literature review (Analysis of available secondary data/information/facts/practices etc.).

-          Description of objectives, methodologies, tools used for the evaluation, and limitations; (with support of MAB team)

-          Analysis of fact findings based on data collected, information gathered and following the objectives/indicators of the project,

-          Recommendations based on the evaluation findings.

-          Annexure: The list of the samples, data tables prepared for analysis linked with graphs etc.

Time Frame:

The task is expected to be completed within 15 workings days from the date of signing of the contract and the inception meeting. The individual, therefore, is required to prepare and submit the entire plan in a way that allows the achievement of all deliverables within the time frame.

Expected Competencies of the Consultant:

It is expected that the competency of the contracted agency/consultant will include:

-          Strong analytical writing skills.

-          Having sound understanding on urban development

-          Experience in both quantitative and qualitative research, having team members experienced in editing and analysis and report preparation.

-          Evidences of relevant experiences of such kind of assignments are requested to submit as reference.

-          Ability to work collaboratively with multiple individuals, groups and team,

Invitation and Submission of Proposals:

MAB will float advertisement inviting proposals from the competent consulting firms/individual expert for the assignment. However, if it requires, proposals may also be invited through email to any potential firm/individual consultant. The proposals should be PDF/soft copy only including (1) technical and (2) financial proposals. Interested consulting firm/individual consultant/expert will be invited to submit the proposals to the following address [email protected] with copy to “[email protected]” by 29^th March 2022.

 

 

Contract value and payment schedule:

The contract value for this assignment will be paid to the consultant in accordance with normal procedures of MAB financial policy. However, the payment would be made through Account Payee Cheque in favour of the name of the firm/individual by two (2) Instalments. MAB will deduct Tax and VAT at source according to the government policy.

1. Maximum 30% of the agreed and contract amount at the time singing of the contract.

2. And the final 70% will be after submission of final report.

However, this is flexible in case if the consultant wishes, can have the total payment at a time after completing the assignment and submission of final reports.

Agreement Signing:

Signing of this ToR will be the agreement document between the selected individual consultant/consulting firm and MAB. The revised proposal (if applicable) and the revised financial proposal (if required) should be the part of this agreement documents. The Consultant/Consulting Firm acknowledges that this Agreement has been read, understood the contents, and agreed to follow its terms and conditions mentioned above.