Expression of Interest

Expression of Interest (Re-opening)

(Applicants who already applied in the first round are kindly requested not to apply again)

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. 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.

Disasters and chronic stresses can undermine the foundations of communities, but may also provide opportunities to begin to transform deeply entrenched inequality and inequities. Although men, women, boys, and girls are all vulnerable to the impacts of disasters, women are often exposed to additional barriers – such as constraints on their mobility or insufficient access to resources like land, education, and finance and information– that decrease their capacity to adapt to adversity and contribute to change. At the same time, women and other vulnerable groups often have critical knowledge and skills that can help their households and communities respond to and recover from crises. Building Resilience through Gender Integration and Empowerment (BRIGE) aims to empower women to be part of household and community decision-making. BRIGE seeks to empower women by engaging them on household decision-making, community decision making and market linkages process to ultimately build resilient behavior. The program targets 3 earthquake affected districts (Kavre, Sindhupalchowk and Dolakha) and 4 districts in the far west (Kalali, Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura and Baitadi). 

BRIGE invites expression of interest to update, refine, and contextualize an existing Family Dialogue curriculum that will be delivered to target communities. The final product will be a Family Dialogue Training Guide that will enable community facilitators to deliver this curriculum. The consultant will also conduct the training of facilitator (ToF) to orient the facilitators on how to use this tool. 

Interested and experienced individuals/firms may download an electronic scope of work and tender documents from nepal.mercycorps.org and submit the proposal not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 7, 2017 through email at: np-consultancy@mercycorps.org 

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Interviews for this consultancy will take place on Monday, May 15, 2017.