To whom it may concern,

According to the Rural China Poverty Reduction and Development Program (2001-2010), "effective measures and actions should be taken to lead NGOs to participate in or carry out governmental projects for poverty reduction." To operationalize this agenda, the LGOP, the ADB, the Jiangxi PADO and the CFPA have agreed to carry out a technical assistance project TA 4580 -PRC: NGO-Government Partnership in Village-level Poverty Alleviation, including a focal pilot test component in Jiangxi Province . The project is aimed at creating and demonstrating the mechanism and pattern in which NGOs participate in governmental projects for poverty reduction and providing suggestions for governments in policymaking.

CFPA will oversee the pilot test component, during which several non-profit NGOs (as defined below) will be competitively selected to organize implementation of village-level poverty alleviation projects (including direct implementation of some components). As described in the Guidelines for Competitive Selection of NGOs, CFPA will organize a competitive open tender selection process, including organizing and chairing a panel of 16 assessors. Jiangxi PADO will make the final selection, based on the panel's ecommendations, and subject to no-objection endorsement by ADB.

Village-level projects involves participatory evaluation of poverty, needs analysis of all-round development and making and implementing village-level poverty reduction plans. It is required that the participation of the poor be ensured in the whole process of project implementation so that their voices, especially the voices of the poor women, can be heard. The Jiangxi PADO will provide ￥0.5 millio n for each village as the project fund while the ADB will provide ￥50,000 for each village in Phase 1 (may be decreased in Phase 2 pending packaging) as management fees.

The project covers six townships from three counties, i.e., Le'an, Xingguo and Ningdu (two in each county), involving 18 poverty-stricken villages. It will last from March 2006 to September 2007, divided into two phases. The first phase which covers the first six illages begins in March 2006 while the second phase which covers the rest 12 begins August 2006.

This bid is to choose NGOs to carry out the pilot project in the first six villages, two in each county: during Phase 1 villages will be packaged as 1 village per bid. A bidder can tender for up to 2 packages, but each bid and the technical plan must be made and submitted separately.

NGOs or public welfare organizations registered in PRC civil affair departments or administrations of industry and commerce and aimed at poverty reduction are eligible for the bid. No university, research institute, natural person (individual expert) or foreign NGO shall enter the bid independently. However, they are encouraged to enter the bid in cooperation with qualified PRC-based NGOs, as either lead or secondary partners.

CFPA will adopt the fixed budget specification, quality-based selection (FBS-QBS) method in this bid. That is, with the project fund and management fees fixed, the bidder is just demanded to make its best technical proposal within the budget.

By 3 January 2006, CFPA will send to all EOI-submitting organizations the notice to bidders and related materials. Bidders must submit technical proposals and other related materials for receipt by CFPA by 17:00 on 19 January 2006.

Name of tenderer: China Foundation of Poverty Alleviation (CFPA)
Add.: 5th Floor, South Building, 36 Shuangyushu Xili, Haidian District, Beijing, 100086, China
Name of contact person: Ms. Sun Yaqing
Tel.：010-82872688－858
Fax：010-62526268
Email：sunyaqing@fupin.org.cn or sunyaq1710@tom.com
Website：www.fupin.org.cn