Job Title: Vietnam Impact Investment Landscape Analysis Paper – Firm Recruitment
Project Name: The Field Support Services Project in Vietnam (FSSP)
Job type: A firm with a team of national consultants
Location of Position: Hanoi, Vietnam
Reporting to: GAC Officers, FSSP Manager
Remuneration: Maximum USD 45,000, inclusive of all costs and contingencies
Indicative LOE/Time Frame: Delivery period of July to December 2026
Citizenship: Vietnamese only
Language Requirements: Proficiency in English (reading, writing, speaking) is required.
Application Deadline: June 14, 2026
- Application Instructions: Please contact Dung Tran at [email protected], copied [email protected] for detailed bid package including Terms of Reference, instructions, and templates.
- Bidders must submit two separate files: a Technical Proposal and a Financial Proposal demonstrating feasibility.
- Only successful candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.
Technical Proposal
Recommended maximum 10 pages, excluding annexes. Must address:
- Understanding of the assignment and risks.
- Proposed methodology and workplan, including KII plan mapped to the five pillars.
- Quality assurance plan for evidence traceability and editorial control.
- Team structure, named personnel, CVs, and role allocations.
- Relevant corporate experience, including two to three comparable assignments and client references.
Financial Proposal
- Detailed budget in USD, broken down by professional fees and reimbursable costs (template provided).
- Assumptions including working days, travel, translation, and any other costs.
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Project Description:
Alinea was awarded the Field Support Services Project (FSSP) in Vietnam and contracted by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to provide administrative, financial and logistical services as well as the procurement of goods, services and technical specialists through the project. The FSSP aims to support and help improve the efficiency of the work of the program and project stakeholders, and the impact of Canada’s international assistance in Vietnam.
About the work
GAC seeks to commission an analysis of the impact investment landscape in Vietnam. This landscape paper will support the formation of the Vietnam Impact Alliance (VIA) – a national body established in collaboration with GSG Impact and dedicated to advancing impact investing in Vietnam through policy engagement, standard-setting, and ecosystem development. It will also provide guidance on opportunities and challenges for current and future GAC development programming in Vietnam. The landscape paper will inform decision-making by:
- Impact and sustainable finance investors, including domestic and international actors.
- Policymakers and regulators.
- Ecosystem builders, including intermediaries and support organizations.
This work recognises and builds upon the existing research that has mapped elements of Vietnam’s impact investing landscape. Rather than replicating prior efforts, the Landscape Paper is intended to drive the conversation forward by taking a more integrated approach. In particular, the paper will examine the ecosystem holistically across five interrelated pillars: capital supply, capital demand, intermediaries, government and regulators, and ecosystem support providers.
The Role
1. Objectives
The firm will:
- Produce an evidence-based map of Vietnam’s impact investing ecosystem, organised around the GSG Impact five pillars.
- Document market activity, instruments, deal sizes, and financing structures.
- Identify barriers and opportunities for capital mobilisation and propose practical recommendations for ecosystem strengthening.
2. Scopes of work
The firm will deliver the assignment through three integrated workstreams.
Workstream A — Desk Research and Evidence Synthesis
The firm will conduct comprehensive desk research and produce a traceable evidence base, including a structured bibliography and data source log. The research must cover definitions, measurement concepts, and known data limitations. It will draw on and synthesise existing studies of Vietnam’s impact investing ecosystem, identifying gaps that primary research must fill.
Workstream B — Key Informant Interviews Across the Five Pillars
The firm will conduct key informant interviews with representatives across five GSG Impact ecosystem pillars. The firm must submit an interview plan, interview guides, and an interview inventory listing interviewee category, organisation, role, date, and pillar mapping.
Indicative interview targets by pillar:
- Supply of capital: DFIs, MDBs, asset owners and managers, including funds that may not have local representatives but still actively invest in Vietnam.
- Demand for capital: social enterprises, inclusive businesses, climate-SMEs, cooperatives, including portfolio companies of impact funds.
- Intermediation of capital: commercial banks, funds.
- Government and regulation
- Ecosystem support providers: networks, development partners, academia, challenge funds.
Interviews may be phased: rounds 1-2 conducted July-August to inform preliminary findings; round 3 conducted September-October to validate and fill gaps.
Workstream C — Validation
The firm will validate preliminary ecosystem findings through targeted written review and structured stakeholder sessions. Validation methods may include circulating draft findings to key informants, conducting small-group review sessions, and collecting written feedback.
3. Deliverables and timeline
All deliverables are to be submitted in English and Vietnamese, in MS Word and PDF formats. Exhibits and visuals are to be submitted in an editable PowerPoint.
- Inception package (July 2026)
- Desk research synthesis memo (July 2026)
- Preliminary findings deck (August 2026)
- Draft landscape paper (October 2026)
- Validation (November 2026)
- Recommendations for Canada’s engagement in the impact financing space (November 2026)
- Final landscape paper (December 2026)
- Ecosystem Visuals and Datasets (December 2026)
Required Qualifications:
Team requirements and Minimum qualifications
Bidders must propose a team with demonstrated capability across:
- Vietnam impact investing, sustainable finance, and private capital ecosystems.
- Qualitative research design and delivery, including high-volume stakeholder interviews.
- Strong writing and editing ability for publication-grade outputs.
- Vietnamese language proficiency — required for a minimum of one researcher on the team to conduct interviews and review Vietnamese-language source materials.
- Knowledge of GAC’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), and experience demonstrating approaches to address environmental and gender issues at policy and program levels.
Minimum team roles (roles may be combined where justified):
- Team Lead and Lead Author.
- Vietnam impact investment and sustainable finance specialist.
- Vietnamese-speaking researcher(s) — at least one dedicated to interviews and primary source review.