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The consultant is expected to produce the following:
1. Create draft agreements with standard holders and certifying bodies for supporting the delivery of market certification in the region, their participation and support for this project and agreement to use local auditors that meet their training and auditor accreditation standards.
2. Identify suitably qualified and experienced auditor training providers to design and deliver auditor training for the focal certification programmes
3. Begin the consultation process with accredited certification bodies for the establishment of agreements for the utilization of trained auditors at national level.
4. Research and curate case studies to inform the development of the pre-assessment tool.
5. Create a pre-assessment tool that can be used to support the decision making by companies/enterprises on the sustainability, viability, and feasibility of obtaining certification to the different focal market certification programmes, based on the findings
in Output 4 and case studies of Output 4 is developed, tested and released.
6. Support the development of organic focused skill-based criteria for inclusion into a call for proposal for MSMEs/enterprises to express their interest in participating in the SAFE project.
7. Development of initial implementation strategies for each of the focal certification programmes including adoption targets and strategies to provide ongoing support, monitoring and review of the strategy.
8. Assist with the establishment of Governance Group(s) to maintain an oversight of the implementation of the focal certification programmes implementation.