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Invitation for Submission of Expressions of Interest

Loan 2257-AFG: North-South Corridor Project
(HIV/AIDS Prevention and Anti-Human Trafficking Sub-component)

Name of Contract: Consultant Services for HIV/AIDS and Anti-Human Trafficking Sub-component

1. The Government of Afghanistan has received a grant from the Asian Development Bank and intends to apply part of the grant proceeds to make payments under contracts to prevent the further spread of HIV and thereby reduce adverse health, social, and economic impact of HIV respectively on construction workers and associated workers and partners, including local most at risk injecting drug users and their partners, sex workers and their clients, and truckers and their partners.
2. The contract is for one consulting firm to provide in each of the three zones of the North South Corridor Project, from Mazari-Sharif to Bamiyan to Yekaulang, over a distance of 400 kilometers. The consultant firm will deliver a defined package of services, including HIV prevention services, primary STI care, HIV and TB care, sexual health and behavior change to a determined number of construction workers and their partners.
3. The beneficiaries will include
   1. about 600 construction workers and their partners, including transport workers, service area operators, and the like,
   2. About 600 vulnerable persons, including returnees, internally displaced persons, most at risk youth, and vulnerable women that may be related to the construction work,
   3. about 300 members of most at risk groups in the corridor zones, including sex workers and their clients, injecting drug users and their partners, MSM and their partners, and
   4. about 300 local area leaders from resident communities, including local government, religious and community leaders, and business leaders. The life of the project is 24 months from about December 2008 to November 2010.
4. The Ministry of Public Health now invites eligible consultant firms to indicate their interest in providing the services for the target groups in the three zones of the North South Corridor Project. Interested consultant firms must also provide information that they are qualified to perform the services through reports of past and current activities and other documents describing:
   
   1. experience in providing targeted interventions in any of HIV prevention services to construction workers and their partners, especially in post-conflict situation, or services to sex workers or truckers.
   2. experience working with community leaders, including teachers, religious leaders at community level in Afghanistan;
   3. experience working with IDUs, SWs, or truckers as well as with transport labor and/or implementation of workplace policies related to HIV prevention.
   4. experience working with in private/public partnership across relevant sectors.
   5. date of establishment,
   6. auditors and audit reports.
   A consultant firm may associate to enhance their qualifications. The maximum number will be 4 firms.

5. A consultant firm will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by Asian Development Bank and its Borrowers (February 2007).
6. Interested consultant may obtain further information at the address below from 0900 to 1500 hours Kabul time.
7. Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by 15 April 2008. Because of the difficulty of postal communication, expressions of interest may also be sent by email.

Dr. Sarwar Hemati
Grants and Contracts Management Unit
Ministry of Public Health
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tel: 93-700-207-826
Email: moh_gcmu@yahoo.com