Terms of Reference (ToR) For Consultancy Service

Terms of Reference (ToR)

For Consultancy Service on

“TOT on unpaid care work analysis to men and women/knowledge transfer to WEC's meeting with action plan preparation.”

Background

Rural Development Centre (RDC) Nepal, in partnership with Oxfam Nepal and with funding support from KOICA, is implementing the Empowering Her project across all 18 wards of Rajdevi and Brindaban Municipalities of Rautahat District. The project works with marginalized and vulnerable women to strengthen their access to services, economic opportunities, leadership, and decision-making, while addressing gender inequality, harmful social norms, caste-based discrimination, and other barriers that affect their participation in family and community life.

As part of the project’s gender-transformative approach, RDC Nepal plans to organize a Training of Trainers (ToT) on Unpaid Care Work Analysis for selected participants. The training will help participants understand the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work between women and men, identify the time and responsibilities involved, and reflect on how these inequalities affect women’s economic opportunities, leadership, well-being, and participation in decision-making. The ToT will also equip participants with practical knowledge and tools to facilitate discussions with men and women and promote more equitable sharing of household and care responsibilities.

Following the ToT, the trained participants will transfer the knowledge and learning to members of the Women Empowerment Centres (WECs) through structured sessions and discussions. WEC members will jointly analyze the existing division of unpaid care work within their households and communities and identify practical areas for change. Based on this analysis, WECs will prepare realistic and locally relevant action plans to encourage shared household responsibilities, greater involvement of men and boys in care work, and more supportive family and community environments for women. The process will strengthen collective ownership and encourage WEC members to take practical steps toward reducing the unequal burden of unpaid care work.

Objectives of the assignment:

The main objectives of this assignment are:

• Capacity Building: Strengthen the capacity of men and women to analyse the social and economic dimensions of unpaid care work.
• Knowledge Transfer: Empower WECs with the tools to identify, plan for, and mitigate care work challenges within the community.
• Strategic Action Planning: Formulate actionable frameworks that promote the redistribution of domestic responsibilities and advance gender equality.

Required skills and experience/s:

• Individuals or consulting firms can apply.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Work, Development Studies, Sociology, or related fields.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in gender equality, GBV prevention, unpaid care work or social behaviour change programming.
• Proven experience in facilitating participatory training for men and women on gender equality and unpaid care work analysis.
• Experience working with community-based organizations and marginalized communities will be an advantage.
• Local consultants with experience in the Terai context will be prioritized.
• Prior work experience with different NGO/INGO is preferred
• Strong ability to understand, analyse, and contextualize local socio-economic conditions and align them with the training objectives and content.
• Fluent local level language skills in context to Rautahat district preferred.

Documents/Quotation for submission:

1. Application Letter
2. CV with citizenship
3. PAN card.
4. Certification letters on facilitating such training.
5. Technical and methodological proposal to conduct training and achieve the proposed objectives.
6. Detailed work plan (schedule of the training).
7. Duly Signed and Filled Supplier’s Code of Conduct
8. Financial Proposal-RFQ duly signed by the consultant. However, the fooding and lodging during the training days will be provided by the RDC Nepal.

Application of Safeguarding & PSEA:

RDC Nepal has a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of abuse, sexual harassment, exploitation, or discrimination against vulnerable individuals, including women and children. All consultants, staff, and partners must comply with the organization’s Safeguarding Policy, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy, and Code of Conduct.

The selected consultant/firm will be required to commit to safeguarding principles and ensure a safe and respectful environment throughout the training process.

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LINKS:

RFQ_ToT on unpaid care work analysis to man and Women and knowledge transfer.pdf 

COI Bidder and Supplier.pdf

Rural Development Centre (RDC) Nepal

Chandrapur-4 Rautahat

Contact no: +977 55 540203 Email: procurement@rdcnepal.org