Consultancy for the Mapping and Assessment of Enterprise Support Service Providers and Digital Advisory Service Providers under the RAYEE II Programme 46/26/SNV

Resilient and Empowered Young Women through Rural Agri-preneurship (RAYEE II) programme aims to create sustainable employment and improve livelihoods for rural young women while ensuring the meaningful participation of young men and youth with disabilities. The programme unlocks employment opportunities within four priority agricultural value chains by leveraging existing resources, capacities, and investments of rural youth, their families, government institutions, the private sector, financial institutions, and the programme itself.

Implemented through an SNV-led consortium, RAYEE II promotes enterprise development as the primary pathway to employment creation. The programme supports rural micro and small enterprises through three complementary pathways: Enterprise Incubation, Enterprise Acceleration, and Lead Firm Support. Across these pathways, the programme combines entrepreneurship development, technical skills, financial and digital inclusion, market systems development, business development services, and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) to enable enterprises to start, grow, and create decent jobs.

While the programme has established a strong network of Local Service Providers (LSPs) to deliver entrepreneurship, financial literacy, digital literacy, and value chain focused technical skills training, long-term enterprise success depends on access to a much wider ecosystem of physical and digital service providers. Strengthening these service ecosystems is therefore central to achieving the programme’s employment objectives. RAYEE II operates across nine implementation clusters and supports micro and small enterprises through Local Service Providers (LSPs) delivering entrepreneurship, life and business skills, financial literacy, digital literacy, and value chain-specific technical training.

To sustain enterprise growth, the programme seeks to strengthen access to a wider network of face to face and digital service providers, including government institutions, financial institutions, business development service providers, private sector actors, lead firms, research organizations, and digital platforms that support enterprise development.

The consulting firm or consortium shall have:

1. At least 7 years of relevant institutional experience in enterprise development, BDS, agricultural value-chain development, market systems, entrepreneurship, digital advisory services, or related areas.
2. Demonstrated experience in mapping and assessing service providers, BDS ecosystems, agricultural advisory systems, market actors, or similar enterprise-support systems, preferably in rural and agricultural contexts.
3. Demonstrated institutional experience covering the four RAYEE II priority value chains—poultry, shoat fattening, dairy, and horticulture. The experience may be demonstrated collectively by consortium members and does not need to come from a single assignment.
4. Proven experience assessing service providers in terms of technical capacity, service portfolio, geographic coverage, accessibility, affordability, quality, relevance, sustainability, and linkages/referral mechanisms.
5. Demonstrated experience assessing face-to-face enterprise support services, including BDS, agricultural advisory, technical training, mentoring/coaching, market linkage, input, financial, and other enterprise-support services.
6. Demonstrated experience mapping and assessing digital advisory and business-support services, including mobile, web, SMS/USSD, voice, messaging, digital learning, market information, e-commerce, or other technology-enabled services.
7. Experience assessing the suitability and accessibility of services for rural young women, youth, persons with disabilities, returnees, IDPs, low-literacy and other underserved groups.
8. Demonstrated capacity for multi-location field research, quantitative and qualitative data collection, service-provider databases, mapping, scoring/classification, data analysis, and evidence-based reporting.
9. Proven experience working with government, private sector, development partners, NGOs, and community-level

The consultant shall propose a multidisciplinary team with expertise covering enterprise development, physical BDS, digital advisory services, the four priority value chains, data and mapping, and GESI/inclusion.

• Master’s degree or higher in Business, Economics, Agribusiness, Development Studies, Entrepreneurship, Market Systems, or related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience, including leadership of enterprise development, BDS, market-system, service-provider mapping, or similar assignments.
• Experience in rural agricultural enterprise development and youth employment.
• Experience covering at least two of the four priority value chains.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder engagement, team management, and report-writing skills.
• Master’s degree in business, Entrepreneurship, Agribusiness, Economics, Marketing, or related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in BDS, enterprise development, incubation, acceleration, mentoring, coaching, or business advisory services.
• Experience assessing rural and agricultural enterprise support providers, preferably covering at least two priority value chains.
• Master’s degree in ICT, Information Systems, Digital Development, Computer Science, Digital Business, or related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in digital advisory, digital learning, mobile/web platforms, or technology-enabled business services.
• Experience with rural digital inclusion, low-connectivity environments, and accessible digital services.
• Experience in agricultural digital advisory services is an advantage.

The team shall include appropriate technical specialists covering all four priority value chains:

• Poultry
• Shoat fattening
• Dairy
• Horticulture

Each specialist shall have:

• At least a master’s degree in an appropriate technical discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in the respective value chain.
• Demonstrated knowledge of production systems, technical services, inputs, animal/crop health, market linkages, enterprise development, and relevant support services.
• Experience in mapping or assessing value-chain service providers is preferred.
• For horticulture, experience in relevant priority crops such as onion, potato, garlic, and cabbage is desirable.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science, M&E, Development Studies, or related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in research, mapping, market assessment, or service-provider assessment.
• Strong skills in quantitative and qualitative data collection, digital data tools, data analysis, visualization, and reporting.
• Experience developing service-provider databases, directories, GIS/mapping tools, or dashboards is an advantage
• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Development, Disability Studies, Development Studies, or related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in GESI, disability inclusion, safeguarding, or inclusive service delivery.
• Experience assessing accessibility and barriers affecting rural young women, persons with disabilities, returnees, IDPs, and other underserved groups.