Consultancy Opportunity: Consultant for chatbot content development on Safe Abortion

Consultancy Opportunity

Consultant for chatbot content development on Safe Abortion

Ipas works globally with a vision that every woman and girl has the right and ability to determine her own sexuality and reproductive health. Ipas Nepal has been providing technical support to initiate and expand evidence informed Safe Abortion and contraception services across the country since the legalization of abortion in 2002. Beside this, Ipas Nepal has been rigorously working for on responding Gender-Based Violence, linkage of climate change, gender, and SRHR, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and Humanitarian context and SRHR. Ipas Nepal works intensively with the MoHP, Ministry of Forest and Environment, Ministry of Women Children and Senior Citizens, the Department of Health Services (DoHS) and different divisions, centers, and organizations at the Federal level while working closely with the province government and Local Government.

Ipas Nepal has been implementing Improving the Journey of People Using Medication Abortion in South Asia in Nepal. The project focuses on refining successful interventions, potentially bringing them to different geographies or to a larger scale, while simultaneously developing and testing new ideas and approaches to improve the journey of women and girls in south-asia using medication abortion. One of the key problem of individuals navigating their abortion journey have limited access to medically accurate, truth worthy and personalized information. This gap leaves them feeling anxious, fearful, and isolated during one of the most vulnerable moments in their lives. Thus, Ipas Nepal is currently designing an innovation on Digital Accompaniment model- where users gain access to personalized, medically accurate information/support in their local language at anytime during their abortion journey through a Messenger-based chatbot, with assurance of privacy and confidentiality.

Objective of the assignment

The consultant will support Ipas Nepal in developing content on safe abortion for First Trimester and At or after 13 weeks abortion including types of abortion procedures, medicine information for abortion and pain management, certified health facilities for abortion referral, Helpline services (Government and Nongovernment) and myth & facts regarding abortion. The content must be framed in three specific journey of abortion which includes but not limited to:

Before Abortion (Decision-making & options)

During Abortion: Personalized information and experience-based guidance, type of abortion taken, understanding the problems/ potential complications and considering the expectant management and place to seek the management including pain management and symptoms that need clinic referral, and referral to trusted clinics for post-abortion care & contraception.

After Abortion: example: symptom check for red-flag, mental health support, physical recovery, emotional support, and any follow-up medical checks, Information on post abortion contraception and fertility return,

Timeline

The consultant should accomplish the tasks within 30 days of LoE, and the tasks should be completed by the end of September 2026.

Deliverables

• Inception report with detailed methodologies, timeline, outcome and deliverables
• Final content report with revised content, FAQs and abortion site mapping

Experience

An individual consultant with minimum of 5 years of experience working on safe abortion services. Experience in developing digital content and ground experience with abortion service seekers/users is desirable.

Qualified women candidates and candidates particularly from disadvantaged and socially excluded/marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application Procedure:

• For the position advertised, interested individual candidates are requested to visit the link given below and submit an online application along with requested document. Detailed SOW also attached in the link.
• Application link: https://ipas.bonfirehub.com/opportunities/245541

Application Submission Deadline: 26 July 2026

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further selection process. Telephone inquiries will not be entertained. Canvassing at any stage of the recruitment process shall lead to automatic disqualification and Ipas Nepal reserves the right to the final candidate selection.

Commitment to diversity and social inclusion

Ipas Nepal is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we want to achieve this by aligning diversity and inclusion through affirmative actions in our recruitment and selection process. To initiate this positive action, we have a provision for affirmative actions for socially excluded and marginalized groups to make an inclusive workforce that includes the marginalized, disadvantaged, and socially excluded population and women, to bring people from various social backgrounds, gender, caste/ethnicity, cultures, religions, and races to bring gender balance and social inclusion in the workforce composition.