Assignment Name: Consultancy Services of “Designing and Implementation of Piloting Programme for Development of business Capacity of Women Entrepreneurs in Cut-Flower Sector “Contract No: BRCP1/MOC/SD-36

Approx. value of the Contract (Tk.

Lacs): 197.78

Country: Bangladesh

Location within the Country:

Jashore: Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Natore, Dhaka (Savar):

Duration of assignment (months): 10 months

Name of Client: Ministry of Commerce,

Address: Level-12(West Side), Probashi Kollayan Bhaban,

71-72, Old Elephant Road,

Dhaka-1000.

Total No of staff-month of the assignment: 65

Start Date: May 2022

Completion Date:

March 2023 (On-going)

Approx. value of service provided by your firm under the contract (Tk. Lacs):

Name of Associated Consultants, if any:

No. of Person-Months of Professional Staff provided by Joint Venture/ Associated Consultants:

Name of Senior Staff (Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader) Involved and Functions Performed: M. Mobarak Ali. Mohammad Salauddin: Project Coordinator; The Project Coordinator along with other members conducted and/ or will be conducted the following: Group formation and Identification of Piloting Activities, Development and designing training curricula/module, Implementation of Training, Adoption of new technology, Linkages among the public-private Traders, Assistance for matching grant support and implement the overall assigned task under the project.

Brief Description of the Project: Component A:

• Inception report (The inception report of the consulting firm should include a section on the potential challenges that women face in their households, communities, markets, etc. and potential strategies to address these)

• Report on Self-help group (SHG) formation by the interested Potential Women Traders/Entrepreneurs

• Preparation of Bye-law for SHG

• Report on product wise identification of customized Piloting Activities and location wise selection of SHG/Potential Women Entrepreneurs/Traders trained in BRCP-1/ cut-flower related business association

• Training Needs Assessment of beneficiaries

• Finalization of training participants’ list

• Workshop on reports

Component B:

• Training toolkit Training materials for Specialized/ hands-on training and Capacity building in the Business Incubation Process:

• Product wise Training implementation manual covering the various aspects identified in component

• Workshop on training modules (product wise separate modules) and implementation plan

Component C:

• Training implementation: Specialized/ hands-on training and Capacity building in the Business Incubation process

• Training implementation progress reports

• Post training refresher workshop: 02 nos.

• Post training final report—summarizing the next actions for each participant, participants’ feedback

Component D:

• Advanced training and practical visit core team to neighboring country for Adoption of new technologies

Component E:

• Report on Group Mentorship/ Visits to processors/ large/medium public or reputed private companies/ Exporters business center/processing center/factory

Component F:

• Preparation of initial guidelines and procedures for matching grant support

• Development of monitoring and reporting mechanisms

• Assistance to preparation of Matching Grant Project Proposals

• Collection and submission of the recommendations of local committee to the project office with the necessary documents

• Monitoring SHG and Matching grant support implementation: Submission of monthly monitoring report

• Submission of final monitoring and evaluation report (evaluation report to be done from development partner review perspective)

Description of Actual Services Provided/ to be provided by SBSS: SBSS provided resource person/trainer, staff, training venue, training aids/equipment, arranged food and lodging, supply of logistic, prepared training manual, prepared and used hand scripts, accumulation of script and develop manual, conducted training sessions, evaluated training impact, prepared and supplied training report. The technical staff members of SBSS provided training to the field staff and identified the group beneficiaries to engage them in implementation of the program. SBSS is also responsible for field supervision, monitoring, evaluation, report preparation and submission.

Firm’s Name:

Society for Bright Social Services (SBSS)

Authorized Signature: