Project Administration Group Tender

Expressions of interest : Consultant for Skills and employment survey for the tourism sector (co-financing) Objective and Purpose of the Assignment Project Background The Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Republic of Tajikistan (MOLME) is implementing the Skills and Employability Enhancement Project (SEEP) financed by the Asian Development of Bank. SEEP is aimed at improving the skills and employability of youth, women, and labor migrants for both the domestic and overseas labor markets. The project will establish three sectoral Job Centers for agriculture (in Dangara district), energy (in Rogun city), and tourism and services (in Dushanbe city), and three regional Migration Service Centers (MSC) in Bokhtar city, Vose district and Khujand city (the fourth MSC will be established within Dushanbe Job Centre). Accordingly, the project is focused on enhancement of the comprehensive employment and migration programs including skills training programs within selected sectors, a new pre-departure and pre- employment programs, behavioral change initiatives for migrants, ICT skills training and financial literacy programs, job counseling services and etc. The project will introduce and apply the new occupation codes to the training certifications based on the international standards. Along with this, the project will conduct skills and employment survey for the tourism sector in order first to reveal employability and training issues and second to improve the skills training programs and labor market portal and also to propose a new approach to undertake regular client tracking surveys in the established Job Centers. The information from this survey and data continues to be used by policymakers and a wide variety of stakeholders to measure and understand the employability and training programs in tourism sector and also to design a proper training process and job services in the established Job Centers and also for other economic sectors as a whole. The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted significantly on tourism sector. It also requires changes in tourism sector through innovated operations that may help reduce inter-personal interactions during the business process. It thus needs to understand the profiles of the tourism industry in the country as compared with the tourism industry that may have adapted better in some other countries / regions. Purpose of the Assignment The main objective of the survey is to identify (i) the economic and employment opportunities in tourism sector (urban and rural) for self-employment and wage-employment; (ii) construct a socio- economic profile of tourism enterprises in Tajikistan, particularly the differences on the employment rate of graduates, average monthly income, percentage of those working in the tourism with obtained specialization, the satisfaction rate of employers with the graduates they hired after completion o ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB),