Market Assessment Consultant

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Market Assessment Consultant for PAHAL

Ref Number :RFP/MCN/PAHAL/PR 2284/2017/003

MERCY CORPS OVERVIEW

Mercy Corps is an international, non-governmental humanitarian relief and development agency that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people to build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps was established in 1979, and has worked in over 100 countries. Mercy Corps began its operation in Nepal in 2005, with projects focusing on the sectors of economic and food security; climate, natural resource and disaster risk management; youth engagement; with the inclusion of women and disadvantaged groups as important cross-cutting themes throughout each intervention area. Mercy Corps Nepal works to build the absorptive, adaptive and transformative potential of vulnerable individuals and communities across Nepal. The goal is attained through a systems based approach to market development, financial services, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and youth engagement. 

THE PROJECT AND RATIONALE

Mercy Corps has been implementing the Promoting Agriculture, Health and Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) Program which is a $37 million, five-year USAID initiative designed to achieve food security among vulnerable populations in the hill and mountain regions of Midwestern and Far West Nepal. PAHAL seeks to strengthen livelihoods, improve nutritional status and increase the capacity of vulnerable households to mitigate, adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses in communities with deep poverty and high rates of malnutrition. PAHAL takes a market facilitation and resilience approach to achieve and sustain food security.

Mercy Corps and its partners target individuals, households, communities, and systems to help build the resilience of up to 160,000 households, in 14 food-insecure districts in Nepal. The interventions focus in the Far and Mid-West districts of Achham, Baitadi, Bajhang, Bajura, Dadeldhura, Darchula, Dailekh, Doti, Jajarkot, Pyuthan, Rolpa, Rukum, Salyan, and Surkhet.

Mercy Corps Nepal invites applications from qualified consultantsfor Market Assessment Consultancy Serviceto PAHAL. Please visit nepal.mercycorps.org to download Tender Document.

Firms/Individuals interested in this consultancy should submit a Letter of Interest, proposal (work, time and budget) and resume to Mercy Corps Sanepa office no later than 22November, 2017 COB. Bid documents can be downloaded from the second day of the publication of notice. The incomplete bid documents or bid documents received after closing date will not be considered. Please also register your submission of offer at the reception of Mercy Corps Nepal office.

Only shortlisted organizations and individualswill be contacted for further process. Canvassing at any stage of the process shall lead to automatic disqualification of the application.  Mercy Corps reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals without assigning any reason.