Hiring a company to conduct training programmes for SDOs

Ministry of Rural Development,Social and Community Empowerment Department of Samurdhi Development Social Protection Project REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Loan No: P178973 Assignment Title: Conducting Project Training Program No: L K - M OW CA SE - 56 2 87 3 - C S - C QS The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has received financing from the World Bank to meet the cost of the Social Protection Project, which is being implemented by the Department of Samurdhi and intends to apply part of the proceeds for conducting project Training Program for SDOs and other relevant staff for Social protection Project. The Social Protection Project is a Government of Sri Lanka project funded by the World Bank . The project supports Sri Lanka in providing better-targeted income and livelihood opportunities to poor and vulnerable households and in improving the responsiveness of the social protection system. The relevant equipment is required to support training and other project-related activities under the project. The Chairman, of the Project Consultants Procurement Committee on behalf of the Social Protection Project, invites eligible consulting firms, Academic Institutions universities to indicate their interest in providing the consultancy service for the above requirements. Sri Lanka’s Empowerment Program pilot is being implemented with the support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) in selected areas nation-wide. The ADB support covers 13 districts, namely Anuradhapura, Batticaloa, Jaffna, Kalutara, Kandy, Kegalla, Kilinochchi, Kurunegala, Matale, Mulaitivu, Nuwara Eliya, Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee – covering 400 Grama Niladharis (GNs) and with a target of 12,800 participants. The WB support covers 12 districts, namely Ampara, Badulla, Colombo, Mannar, Monaragala, Rathnapura, Vavuniya, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Gampaha and Puttalam covering 439 GNs with a target of more than 10,975 participants, across two phases. Phase 1 includes 7 non-