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Maldives: Enhancing Employability and Resilience of Youth Project

(MEERY; P163818)

Ministry of Higher Education

Republic of Maldives

Announcement No: (IUL) 475/475/2020/26

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Consultancy to Develop a National Skills Development Master Plan for TVET Authority of Maldives

The Government of Maldives (GoM) is implementing the “Maldives: Enhancing Employability and Resilience of Youth (MEERY)” Project. The project is funded by the World Bank. The objective of the project is to improve the relevance of technical and vocational skills and foster entrepreneurship to promote youth employment in priority sectors. The project is administered by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), with a Project Steering Committee that will be co-chaired by the MoHE and the Ministry of Economic Development.

As part of this project MoHE seeks eligible consultancy firms to submit expressions of interest according to the Term of Reference. The detail terms of reference for the consultancy is available to download from the gazette. Expressions of Interest need to be submitted on or before 12:00 pm, 17^th February 2020.

Terms of Reference:

Interested parties may download the terms of reference which outline the scope of service, the key qualifications and experience relevant to this consultancy from the gazette.

• Note: Consulting services will be selected in accordance with the ‘World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers’ Procurement in Investment Project Financing- Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services, July 2016 Revised November 2017 and August 2018 introduced by the Bank under the Procurement Framework.

Interested parties may obtain the ToR and further information on request by writing to the address      below.

The applications must be addressed to:

02^nd February 2020