Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH under its ProSoil Project invites bids from potential consultancy firms for video training of farmers, CRPs and NGO staff in rural areas of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, India.

As a capacity development measure, ProSoil project with support of local NGOs trained around 40 Community Resource Persons (CRP) and NGO staff in the production of such videos in December 2019 and January 2020 in three geographical locations of Mandla, Yavatmal, and Ahmednagar. As a result, 20 short videos by farmers, CRPs and NGO staff were produced during this training. The content of the videos focused on the storytelling and sharing by farmers to other farmers.

A second round of video training is planned to provide training to up to 40 persons, NGO staff, Community Resource Persons (CRPs) and farmers, some of them will be from the pool of trainees trained during the first round of video trainings and some will be new trainees. While the NGO staff has a formal education most of the Community Resource Persons and farmers have little formal education and require a targeted training. The trainings are to be done in the three field locations of Ahmadnagar, Yavatmal and Mandla. The content of the videos shall be focusing on farmer to farmer communication, sharing of personal stories, as well as on the transfer of technologies.

The detailed documentation with regards to this call for proposals includes:

• Terms of Reference for the Assignment
• Grid for Assessing the Eligibility of Firms
• Technical Evaluation Grid
• Bidding Conditions
• General Terms & Conditions of Contracts
• Declaration of consent from participants photos and videos

Tender timelines are:

• Posting date : 23^th September, 2020
• Deadline to receive queries: 28^th September, 2020
• Clarifications to the queries: 2^nd October, 2020
• The deadline for submission of proposal: 12^th October, 2020

F.A.Q

GIZ reserves the right to cancel/modify this tender and / or reject a bid document including subsequently a technical and financial proposal, without assigning any reasons.