Announcement No. TM/RFP/2022/009
Project: CIPE
Published on: 17th April 2022
Inquiry Submission: Open until Deadline
Deadline due: 08th May 2022
Point of Contact: [email protected]

1. Organizational Background
Transparency Maldives (TM) is a non-partisan organization that endeavors to be a constructive force in society by promoting collaboration and discussion on corruption, transparency, and accountability. TM seeks to engage with stakeholders from all sectors (government, business, political and civil society, among others) to raise awareness of corruption’s detrimental effects on development and society, improve transparency and accountability in governance, and eliminate corruption from the daily lives of people. TM continues to support grassroots movements, promoting community empowerment and social cohesion.

2. Eligibility: Organizations / Firms / Individuals

3. Period of Performance: Starting May 2022 for a period of 4 months.

4. Scope of Work and Guidelines:

4.1 Background
Transparency Maldives is carrying out the development and implementation of project “Maldives: enhancing the practice of business integrity” funded by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). A key objective of the project is to enhance awareness of effective business integrity practices within civil society and the private sector. To achieve this objective a key activity is engagement with business/professional associations, cooperative societies and civil society organizations (CSO)s to promote and strengthen business integrity practices. Furthermore, to enhance awareness.

4.2 Objectives, Scope and Description of Activities
TM is seeking a business integrity expert to conduct research on the level of understanding of business integrity and ethical conduct within business/professional associations, cooperative societies and CSOs, and develop content to promote business integrity among these target groups. 
•    The consultant will develop a methodology to understand how associations, cooperative societies and CSO’s and it’s members currently understand and apply the concepts of business integrity. The consultant will provide an inception report including assessment tools (as a minimum to include organizational assessment survey and membership survey)
•    The consultant will conduct an organizational assessment survey and membership survey among the association’s, cooperative societies and CSO’s. Through a series of consultations with selected business/professional associations, cooperative societies and CSOs, the consultant will determine the role that business integrity and ethical conduct play in association membership and the key challenges in applying ethical business practices. Based on the surveys and consultations, the consultant will provide a report on findings and provide guiding compliance policies/process, FAQ on business integrity, and engagement materials to promote business Integrity.
•    The consultant will provide capacity building and technical support to selected organizations and TM including 
    o        Identify and work with 6 organizations, in coordination with TM, to provide technical assistance for those organizations to adopt business integrity practices.
    o     Support TM/CIPE’s business integrity pilot trainings/workshops planned under the project, including observing the training delivery by TM/CIPE, and based on observations and post training evaluations, review/contextualizing training materials used by TM/CIPE.  
    o        Develop a handbook/guideline on business integrity and ethics based on the inception report/survey findings, engagements with organizations and training observations.  
•    Provide end of project report, detailing lessons learned challenges and way forward. 
 

Please review the PDF for full information on the RFP, Scope of Work, Required Submissions and Deadlines.

If you have any queries or wish to submit your proposal for this application, please apply at the link in our website [https://transparency.mv/downloads/tm-rfp-2022-009/] or email to [email protected] within the stipulated schedule of deadlines in the RFP.