Recruitment of Technical Assistance Firm

Project Description

The Government of Nepal with assistance of a USD 80 million credit from the World Bank is implementing the Rural Enterprise and Economic Development (REED) Project under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MOALD). The project development objective is to strengthen rural market linkages and the entrepreneurship ecosystem; and create job opportunities as the recovery actions from COVID-19; The project will support at least 900 productive partnerships under component 1, institutional capacity development for more than 86 Provincial and Local Governments for improved delivery of key services in the agriculture sector, and more than 100 SMEs and agritech startups under component 2. Under component 3, the project will build and maintain more than 150 infrastructures as municipal agriculture and livestock service center, value chain infrastructures and regional markets

Assignment Description

The main objective of the assignment is to assist OPD and ECOs in effective implementation and monitoring of the project activities under Component 1 (Strengthening Market Linkages through Productive Partnerships), Sub-Component 2a (Capacity Building of central, provincial and local government and related agencies), Sub-Component 2b (Capacity Building of Intermediary Institutions and SMEs), and Component 3 (Restoring and Strengthening COVID-19-Disrupted Food Supply Chain and Local Economy)