Terms of Reference
Moderation of Discussions on Issues Related to Inclusive Market
Development
1. Katalyst
Katalyst is a market development project that aims to contribute to increasing the income of
poor men and women in rural areas. It does this by facilitating changes in services, inputs and
product markets, which in turn increases the competitiveness of farmers and small enterprises.
Katalyst is co-funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the UK
Government, and the Danish International Development Agency (Danida). It is implemented by
Swisscontact under the umbrella of the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh.
2. About Capitalisation
In Phase 3, Katalyst has defined a new overarching theme titled ‘capitalisation’ under which it
plans to intensify its activities to create awareness for a wider range of stakeholders on the
overall concept of market development and influence them to further improve or streamline
their practices related to inclusive development, thereby leading to wider scale of impact.
For Katalyst, capitalisation is the process through which the project identifies learning from its
own and other’s experiences and knowledge in order to use it to improve practices for itself
and its partners further while contributing to inclusive development. The underlying rationale
of capitalisation is based on the premise that facilitative, indirect approach, knowledge, and
experience currently practiced by Katalyst could also be promoted and utilized by a greater
number of well positioned stakeholders. With a greater number of stakeholders voicing
appreciation for and promoting a similar systemic approach, there will be far greater level of
outreach and impact, resulting in both direct and indirect benefits to the poor. This is of utmost
importance, because as a project with limited life span, Katalyst would like to see that target
groups are benefited beyond the project’s life.
3. Background of the assignment
As a part of the capitalisation strategy, Katalyst plans to influence well positioned stakeholders
to promote and utilize aspects of Inclusive Market Development1 Approach. In order to do so,
Katalyst will undertake a series of dialogues/discussion sessions with relevant public and private
sector stakeholders.
The discussion events will firstly seek to garner greater understanding among various
stakeholders on issues relating to inclusive market development and inclusive business2 in
Bangladesh. The discussion events are attempted at creating a positive attitude amongst the
key stakeholders regarding the concept of inclusive business and influencing them to adopt
aspects of the same into their own work. Secondly, through the discussion events, Katalyst also
seeks to extract IB based knowledge and experiences from the relevant stakeholders.
Furthermore, Katalyst expects to identify scopes for applying inclusive market development
initiatives to solve major issues. A series of publications based on the outcomes of these
discussions will also be compiled, which can later be used to influence more key stakeholders to
promote and practice inclusive market development.
Katalyst is seeking consultant(s)/consultancy firms for moderating these discussion events. The
consultant(s)/consultancy firms will be required to do background research on the issues and to
develop publications subsequently. The consultant/consultancy firms will also be required to
assist Katalyst in developing relationships with and influencing key stakeholders, inviting
participants to the event as well as overall planning and event management of the event. The
particular expertise required for the consultants are mentioned in section 5.
4. Areas of work
Based on the topics and objectives of each of the discussion events set by the capitalisation
team of Katalyst, the areas of work for the consultant(s)/consultancy firm will include the
following:
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Planning: The consultant(s)/consultancy firm is expected to do background research on
the topic as well as to create a guideline for the detailed points to be discussed in the
sessions. The consultant(s)/consultancy firm must assist Katalyst to contact and invite
participants to the event as well as to assist Katalyst in event management.
1 Inclusive Market Development (IMD) focuses on developing markets to make them more inclusive and
beneficial to the low income groups as producers, consumers and employees.
2 Inclusive Business (IB) models include the poor into a company’s supply chains as employees, producers
and business owners or develop affordable goods or services needed by the poor. (Private Sector Division,
Partnerships Bureau, UNDP, 2010).
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Moderation: The consultant(s)/consultancy firm is expected to moderate the discussion
sessions and engage the participants in the dialogue. The moderator must guide the
discussions in order to successfully explore the topic and achieve the objectives set out
by Katalyst. The moderator will also be expected to give a presentation at the discussion
on his findings from the background research. In some cases the consultant may be
required to develop a key note paper.
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Developing Publications: The consultant(s)/consultancy firm may have to create a
report and discussion proceedings based on the discussion event and background
research. Furthermore the consultant(s)/consultancy firm may be required to create
other publications depending on the topic and objective of the session. These
publications may include but are not limited to: case studies, experience briefs, research
papers, short videos, documentaries, policy briefs, manuals, reports, practice briefs,
discussion/workshop papers, etc.
The details of the tasks for each of the assignments including the timeline shall be determined
by Katalyst and will be finalized through mutual agreement between the consultant and
Katalyst.
5. List of expertise required
Expertise expected from the consultant is as follows:
• Extensive experience in moderating workshops, especially with participants from
relevant stakeholders (government officials, private sector, NGOs etc.)
• Experience of working with the issues relevant to private sector development as well as
knowledge of Inclusive Market Development, Inclusive Business and Markets for the
Poor (M4P) Approach
• Previous extensive experience of working with the public sector and/or private sector,
especially in the field of agriculture or agriculture extension and agribusiness.
• Ability to create high quality publications that highlight good writing and communication
capabilities as well as the ability to effectively collect and portray findings in order to
influence relevant stakeholders
6. Contract Duration
The contract will remain valid for 18 months, starting from April 15 2015 (tentative). The
number of assignments for engagement will depend on available opportunity and specific area
of expertise of the consultant.
7. Budget
The consultant(s) are required to propose their daily rates. The consultancy firms are requested
to propose the daily rates of their pool of consultants in accordance to the budget template.