Call for Consultant - Baseline Assessment and Market Demand Analysis

Call for Consultant

Baseline Assessment and Market Demand Analysis

Organisation: Yuwalaya

Assignment Duration: Approx. 15 – 20 days

Application Deadline: 25 September 2026

BACKGROUND

Yuwalaya is a youth-led civil society organisation based in Lalitpur, Nepal, working since 2013 to promote the rights, dignity, and sustainable livelihoods of marginalised girls, young women, and women workers. As an implementing partner of Oxfam Nepal's Valuing Women's Work (VWW) Gender Justice project, Yuwalaya has deep community roots in Lalitpur's domestic worker communities and a strong track record of rights-based advocacy, women's organising, and livelihood programming.

The Skills for Dignified Work project is a 8-month initiative funded by Oxfam In Nepal (OIN) targeting 25 young women (aged 18–35) from low-income, Dalit, Janajati, migrant, and other marginalised households engaged in domestic and informal labour in Lalitpur.

PURPOSE

The baseline assessment serves three major interconnected purposes;

1. Understand the current condition of targeted women participants across project indicators.
2. Mapping of the landscape of private sector employers, homeowners and digital job platforms in Lalitpur’s domestic services market to identify partnership opportunity and their preferences and current practices.
3. Assess the current and projected demand for specific vocational skills in Lalitpur's labor market, including domestic services, home services, and other growth sectors, and identify employment opportunities, employer requirements, availability of CTEVT-certified courses, and potential pathways to dignified employment for project participants.

SCOPE OF WORK

The consultant will undertake the following tasks, in close coordination with Programme Officer and M&E cum Documentation Officer. 

1. Inception and Tools Development
2. Mapping of Private Sector and Employer
3. Market Demand and Skills Need Analysis
4. Data Analysis and Reporting

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Master's degree in Social Science, Development Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Public Policy, or a related field
• Minimum 3 years of experience conducting social research, baseline assessments, or evaluations for NGO, INGO, or development agency projects in Nepal
• Demonstrated experience in women's livelihoods, labour market, or vocational training research including market demand analysis or labour market assessments

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates should send the following to yuwalaya.youth@gmail.com and pcc.yuwalaya@gmail.com with the subject line "Application for Baseline Assessment Consultant, Skills for Dignified Work ":

• Cover letter
• Updated CVs (all members, if team)
• Copy of PAN/VAT certificates
• Technical and Financial Proposal
• Two samples of previous baseline assessments/evaluation/research reports prepared for similar projects
• Contact details of at least two references.

Applications from women consultants and consultants from Dalit and Janajati communities are strongly encouraged.

Yuwalaya reserves the right to negotiate the scope, methodology, or fee with shortlisted candidates. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further discussion.

Here is the link for the detailed TOR