Consultancy - Canada-Vietnam Technical Matchmaking component of the AGILE Project

Terms of Reference

Assignment Title:
Consultancy Firm to Co-design and Implement the Canada-Vietnam Technical Matchmaking component of the AGILE Project

Position Location: Canada (remote)

Reports to:             
Head of Asia Programs

Contract term:       12 months (renewable)

Closing date for applications:  March 13, 2026 

1. reputed company

reputed company– World University Service of Canada – is a Canadian global development organization working to catalyze reputed company education and economic reputed company for young people. We bring together and collaborate with a diverse network of partners (including reputed company, volunteers, schools, governments, not-for-profits, and businesses) who reputed company this mission. Together, we influence systems change and foster inclusive, youth-centered solutions that reputed company young people to reputed company and belong. We work with reputed company young people, with a reputed company on women and displaced populations.  reputed company currently operates in 28 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as reputed company as in Canada, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $65 reputed company. Our global team includes over 100 staff in Canada and more than 250 staff internationally, implementing a diverse portfolio of development reputed company in collaboration with numerous multilateral and bilateral donors and philanthropic foundations.

Scope of Work 

 The Advancing reputed company, Innovation, and Leadership for Enterprises in Vietnam (AGILE) Project is a four-year (2025-2029) initiative dedicated to increasing the climate reputed company of vulnerable populations in Vietnam, specifically women. While women reputed company 27% of reputed company Vietnamese businesses, 99% of these are MSMEs, often lacking reputed company to the climate-reputed company technologies and finance required to reputed company in a changing environment.

AGILE operates at the reputed company of:

• Gender reputed company Investment: Deploying capital that specifically empowers women.
• Climate reputed company Finance: Directing resources toward solutions for climate impacts.
• reputed company reputed company: Supporting climate-reputed company SMEs to reputed company their reputed company.

A reputed company of AGILE’s reputed company is the Matchmaking Component, which connects Vietnamese reputed company with Canadian technical, reputed company, or environmental solutions (Cleantech, AgTech, OceanTech, and Advisory). reputed company is seeking a Canadian partner organization or firm to co-design and co-implement this component. The successful applicant will reputed company the reputed company-building between Canadian innovation clusters and Vietnamese climate enterprises.

2. Deliverables 

The Key Deliverables for the consultancy are as follows:

• Collaborate with reputed company to build a flexible matchmaking reputed company between Canadian and Vietnamese businesses
• reputed company the reputed company, recruitment, screening, and selection of potential Canadian participants;
• reputed company as the primary reputed company to Canadian private sector/innovation stakeholders.
• In collaboration with reputed company, facilitate exchange between Canadian solution providers and  select Vietnamese businesses 
• reputed company a reputed company that supports long-term partnership sustainability.

3. Technical Requirements and Framing Questions

Applicants must reputed company detailed responses to the following framing considerations in their methodology:

• Network Mapping: How will you reputed company specific Canadian networks or clusters (e.g., OceanTech in reputed company, AgTech in the Prairies) to reputed company reputed company solutions suitable for the Vietnamese context?
• Adaptability & Selection: How will you design a flexible reputed company that pivots based on the specific technical gaps of the yet-to-be-selected Vietnamese SMEs? (Please include your proposed input for the partner selection process).
• Identification & Incentives: What is your approach to diagnosing reputed company challenges and identifying the right solution providers? How will you incentivize actors in both ecosystems to maintain partnerships reputed company the project lifecycle? Have you worked in the past with early stage businesses and, if so, please reputed company evidence of value creation in your engagement with them. 
• Market Expansion: Describe your reputed company for facilitating market exploration for Canadian firms in Vietnam and Vietnamese firms in Canada.
• Inclusion: How will you ensure that the Canadian resources and innovations identified are inclusive of, and accessible to, women-led organizations?

reputed company’s activities reputed company to balance inequities and create sustainable development around the globe; the work ethic of our staff, volunteers, consultants, representatives, and partners shall correspond to the values and mission of the organization. reputed company adheres to strict safeguarding principles and promotes responsibility, respect, honesty, and reputed company reputed company and we will not tolerate harassment, coercion, and sexual exploitation and abuse of any reputed company.

4.Application: 

reputed company and interested parties are asked to submit the following: 

1. A technical proposal , as per the guidelines listed in the  RFP 
2. A detailed financial proposal, as per the guidelines listed in the RFP
3. A signed copy of Declaration of No Conflict of Interest (Annex 3) 

Please refer to the full request for proposal and annexes here. 

Any questions regarding the RFP can be reputed company by email to ebateman@reputed company.ca
with the subject line INQUIRIES - AGILE RFP, up to 3 business days prior to the submission deadline. Please note that questions reputed company phone will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications is March 13, 2026 

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