Lot 1.
The consultant shall propose a practical, participatory, and inclusive methodology suitable for rural implementation contexts. The methodology should demonstrate meaningful engagement of rural young women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups throughout the assignment. At a minimum, it should include:
- Human-centred design: Apply co-design and iterative testing with learners, trainers, LSPs, implementing partners, disability organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Adult and experiential learning: Use practical, learner-centred approaches such as learning-by-doing, peer learning, coaching, demonstrations, reflection, and action planning.
- Inclusive instructional design: Develop low-literacy, accessible materials using plain language, visual aids, storytelling, and practice-based learning, aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
- Disability inclusion: Ensure reasonable accommodation, accessible communication, assistive technology compatibility, and validation with persons with disabilities or their representative organizations.
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI): Identify and address barriers related to gender, disability, care responsibilities, mobility, displacement, language, literacy, and digital exclusion, ensuring equitable participation of underserved groups.
- Safeguarding and Do-No-Harm: Integrate safeguarding measures, ethical engagement, confidentiality, risk mitigation, and referral mechanisms throughout the assignment.
- Digital inclusion: Design solutions that are practical in low-connectivity settings and responsive to varying levels of digital literacy and device access.
- Quality assurance: Apply robust quality control processes, including technical, editorial, accessibility, GESI, safeguarding, and user reviews, with revision tracking and final validation prior to approval
The assignment is expected to be completed within 90 days from contract signature. The consultant shall propose a detailed work plan and timeline.
The consultant shall report to the RAYEE II Consortium Coordination Unit (CCU) Skill system lead.
The consultant shall work closely with:
- CCU technical team.
- Implementing Partners (IPs).
- Local Service Providers (LSPs).
- Subject matter experts.
- Representatives of program participants.
- Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and disability inclusion actors, where applicable.
- Representatives of rural young women, youth with disabilities, returnees, IDPs, and other program participant groups.
All deliverables shall be reviewed and approved by the CCU.
Required Qualifications – Lot 1
The consultancy requires a multidisciplinary consulting firm or consortium with demonstrated expertise in competency-based curriculum development, instructional design, entrepreneurship education, adult learning, inclusive skills development, and financial literacy.
Interested firms shall submit proposals for:
Firms submitting proposals for Lot 1 demonstrate that they possess adequate technical expertise, staffing capacity and quality assurance systems to implement the assignment simultaneously.
9.1 Institutional Qualifications
The consulting firm or consortium shall demonstrate the following minimum qualifications:
- At least 10 years of professional experience in curriculum development, instructional design, competency-based education, or training manual development.
- Proven experience in designing entrepreneurship, business development, TVET, agriculture or youth employment training program.
- Demonstrated experience working with governments, development partners, NGOs or international organizations.
- Proven experience in developing facilitator guides, participant manuals and practical learning resources.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating stakeholder consultations, curriculum review processes and validation workshops.
- Experience integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), disability inclusion and safeguarding into learning program.
- Strong quality assurance and editorial capacity.
- Experience producing professionally designed, print-ready training manuals.
9.2. Key Personnel – Lot 1
The consulting firm shall propose, at a minimum, the following key experts.
Team Leader / Curriculum Development Specialist
Minimum qualifications:
- Master’s degree or above in Education, Curriculum Studies, Adult Education, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Agricultural Education or a related discipline.
- At least ten (10) years of relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading curriculum development and instructional design assignments.
- Strong project management, facilitation and report writing skills.
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Specialist
Lot 2.
The consultant shall propose a practical, participatory and inclusive methodology suitable for rural implementation contexts. The methodology should demonstrate meaningful engagement of rural young women, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups throughout the assignment. At a minimum, it should include:
- Human-centred design: Apply co-design and iterative testing with learners, trainers, LSPs, implementing partners, disability organizations and other relevant stakeholders.
- Adult and experiential learning: Use practical, learner-centred approaches such as learning-by-doing, peer learning, coaching, demonstrations, reflection and action planning.
- Inclusive instructional design: Develop low-literacy, accessible materials using plain language, visual aids, storytelling and practice-based learning, aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
- Disability inclusion: Ensure reasonable accommodation, accessible communication, assistive technology compatibility and validation with persons with disabilities or their representative organizations.
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI): Identify and address barriers related to gender, disability, care responsibilities, mobility, displacement, language, literacy and digital exclusion, ensuring equitable participation of underserved groups.
- Safeguarding and Do-No-Harm: Integrate safeguarding measures, ethical engagement, confidentiality, risk mitigation and referral mechanisms throughout the assignment.
- Digital inclusion: Design solutions that are practical in low-connectivity settings and responsive to varying levels of digital literacy and device access.
- Quality assurance: Apply robust quality control processes, including technical, editorial, accessibility, GESI, safeguarding and user reviews, with revision tracking and final validation prior to approval.
Duration of Assignment
The assignment is expected to be completed within 90 days from contract signature. The consultant shall propose a detailed work plan and timeline.
Reporting and Coordination
The consultant shall report to the RAYEE II Consortium Coordination Unit (CCU) Skill System Lead.
The consultant shall work closely with:
- CCU technical team.
- Implementing Partners (IPs).
- Local Service Providers (LSPs).
- Subject matter experts.
- Representatives of programme participants.
- Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and disability inclusion actors, where applicable.
- Representatives of rural young women, youth with disabilities, returnees, IDPs and other programme participant groups.
All deliverables shall be reviewed and approved by the CCU.
Required Qualifications
The consultancy requires a multidisciplinary consulting firm or consortium with demonstrated expertise in competency-based curriculum development, instructional design, agricultural technical training, adult learning and inclusive skills development.
Institutional Qualifications
- At least 10 years of professional experience in curriculum development, instructional design, competency-based education or training manual development.
- Proven experience in designing TVET, agriculture, agricultural value-chain or youth employment training programmes.
- Demonstrated experience working with governments, development partners, NGOs or international organizations.
- Proven experience in developing facilitator guides, participant manuals and practical learning resources.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating stakeholder consultations, curriculum review processes and validation workshops.
- Experience integrating GESI, disability inclusion and safeguarding into learning programmes.
- Strong quality assurance and editorial capacity.
- Experience producing professionally designed, print-ready training manuals.
Key Personnel – Lot 2
The consulting firm shall propose specialists with demonstrated expertise in the priority value chains. The minimum team shall include:
Team Leader / Curriculum Development Specialist
- Master’s degree or above in Education, Curriculum Studies, Adult Education, Agricultural Education or a related discipline.
- At least ten (10) years of relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading curriculum development and instructional design assignments.
- Strong project management, facilitation and report writing skills.
Poultry Value Chain Specialist
- Advanced degree in Animal Science, Veterinary Science or a related discipline.
- Minimum seven (7) years of practical and training experience.
Shoat Value Chain Specialist
- Relevant advanced degree in Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Animal Production or a related discipline.
- Minimum seven (7) years of relevant professional experience.
Dairy Development Specialist
- Relevant advanced degree in Animal Science, Dairy Science, Veterinary Science or a related discipline.
- Minimum seven (7) years of relevant professional experience.
Horticulture Specialist
- Relevant advanced degree in Horticulture, Agronomy, Plant Science or a related discipline.
- Minimum seven (7) years of relevant professional experience.
Adult Learning Specialist
- Demonstrated expertise in adult learning, competency-based training and instructional design.
- Relevant professional experience in developing practical and learner-centred training materials.
GESI and Disability Inclusion Specialist
- Demonstrated expertise in GESI, disability inclusion and safeguarding.
- Responsible for mainstreaming inclusion and safeguarding throughout all technical manuals.
Graphic Designer / Visual Communication Specialist
- Demonstrated expertise in illustration, visual communication, page layout and publication-ready formatting.
- Responsible for illustration, page layout and publication-ready formatting.