Trainer-Wilderness First Aid Training 2021

Mercy Corps Nepal

Building Hope Along the Karnali River Basin (Bhakari) Project 

Scope of Work for 

Wilderness First Aid Training 2021 to BHAKARI Staff 

"This Scope of Work (SoW) is for prepared for the service of trainer(instructor) to conduct  Wilderness First Aid Training to BHAKARI Staff"

1. Background 

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action - helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. Mercy Corps has been operating in Nepal since 2005, implementing programs in food security, agriculture, market development, financial services, youth engagement, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Mercy Corps Nepal has stated Bhakari program in October 2020 to enhance food and nutrition security, reduce future humanitarian caseload and improve the resilience of communities to recurrent shocks in the Karnali Province in Nepal. This is a Multi-Year Emergency Food Security Activity funded by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs, with a goal to enhance food and nutrition security, reduce future humanitarian caseload, and improve the resilience of communities to recurrent shocks in 6 districts (Mugu, Jumla, Kalikot, Surkhet, Achham, and Dailekh, with cluster hubs in Surkhet and Jumla) in the Karnali River Basin area.  The new program, called BHAKARI, is somewhat built upon many of the successes of the Nepal team’s previous Food for Peace program which ended in January 2020, the PAHAL program, but with some new districts and a much heavier emphasis on emergency response. It includes program components of agriculture and market systems, disaster risk reduction, water for productive use, natural resources management, and a large emphasis on a gender and social inclusion approach, all with a highly integrated multi-sectoral approach. 

2. Training Objectives

The Wilderness First Aid course will help prepare for the unexpected. This training is designed to meet the needs of Bhakari staff working in remote locations. It will introduce caring for staff who become ill or injured far from definitive care. Classroom lectures and demonstrations and practicals are combined with realistic scenarios where mock patients will change to integrate staff learning. At the end of the course, participants will have the knowledge, skills, and ability to make a sound decision in emergency situations.

3. Training Content and Methodology

This WFA training includes the following key content to cover in the training contain,

• Patient Assessment & Documentation
• Shock
• Spinal Injury
• Wound care management & Infection
• Head injury
• Musculoskeletal injury
• Heat illness
• Cold related emergencies
• High Altitude Illness
• Airway obstruction management & CPR
• Seizures, Diarrhea, Dehydration, Allergy
• Bites,

This training will be conducted fully outdoors including, practical and theory equally. The methodology and approach of training will be fully participatory based on the practical each contain of the training.

4. Training Participants

All staff of BHAKARI who are working in mountain region including selected staff from Mercy Corps will participate in WFA  training, All total 25 staff will participate in this training from Jumla and Surkhet cluster.

5. Training date and length 

The three days long (at least 20 Hour-Basic) training will be conducted at Nepalgunj from tentatively from  4th to 6th Oct 2021.The cost of the training venue will be borne by Mercy Corps Nepal.

6. Qualification of consultant firm/Individuals

• Sound knowledge of wilderness risk, and complicity of remote parts of Nepal. 
• Minimum 3 years of experience in WAF training 
• Should be certified trainer of First Aid. 
• Instructor should have experience of conducting at least 3 similar types of training

7. Selection criteria 

• Experience of individuals/firms conducting similar type of training in the past 
• Cost
• Ability to perform training on Mercy Corps scheduled dates as mentioned above
• Expertise of instructors

8. Required documents for Submitting the Quotation: 

Qualified firms/ Individuals can send their quotation to np-procurement@mercycorps.org  with the Title “Trainer-Wilderness First Aid Training 2021” along with the following documents by 28 September 2021, 5 pm:

• Quotation(detailed budget breakdown of cost for (1) trainer’s fee, 2) training materials 3) Trainer travel cost etc )
• Work Plan (indicating the methodology of conducting the training, human resources mobilization.)
• Company Profile
• CV/s of instructor/s
• Relevant Past Experience list 
• Firm Registration & Renewal certificate (for Firm)
• Copy of VAT Registration Certificate (for Firm)
• Latest Tax clearance certificate (for Firm)
• Copy of Pan card (for Individual consultant) 

9. Deliverables:

Training completion report from consultant firm including pre and post test score. 

10. Payments mode: 

The consultant (instructors) fee for the training will be released after the completion of the training on the basics of the contract.