REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (REOI)CONSULTANCY FOR AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS, COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE & FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND VOCATIONAL LIFE SKILLS TRAINING

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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (REOI)

CONSULTANCY FOR AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS, COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE & FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND VOCATIONAL LIFE SKILLS TRAINING

Issue Date: 28 September 2026
Closing Date: Monday, 12 October 2026 at 5:00 PM (Juba Time)
Contract Type: Consultancy Firm
Target Locations: Juba and Yambio, South Sudan

Humanity Worldwide (HWW) invites qualified and experienced consulting firms to submit proposals to develop training materials and deliver practical capacity-building programmes for six agricultural cooperative societies—two in Juba and four in Yambio—and 90 youth artisans, comprising 45 in each location.

The assignment aims to improve agricultural productivity and post-harvest quality, strengthen cooperative governance and access to finance, and enhance artisans’ life skills, workplace conduct, and customer service.

SCOPE OF WORK

The selected consulting firm will be responsible for:

  • Conducting a training needs assessment and developing a detailed methodology, baseline tools, and implementation schedule;

  • Developing participatory training materials on Good Agricultural Practices for fruits, vegetables, nuts, and high-value field crops;

  • Delivering five days of agricultural training in Juba and five days in Yambio, covering nursery establishment, pest and soil fertility management, climate-resilient farming, post-harvest handling, and quality grading, followed by post-training monitoring;

  • Delivering five days of cooperative governance and financial management training in each location, covering leadership structures, bylaws, democratic decision-making, internal controls, bookkeeping, financial reporting, and transparency;

  • Strengthening member savings and internal lending through SACCO/VSLA models, collective bargaining, group aggregation, and linkages to formal and informal financing channels;

  • Delivering three days of vocational life skills training in each location for 90 youth artisans, covering workplace ethics, personal accountability, conflict resolution, professional presentation, and customer service; and

  • Documenting training results, participant progress, cooperative action plans, and recommendations for continued institutional strengthening.

Artisan training will cover trades in construction and infrastructure, culinary and hospitality services, fashion and beauty, facilities and support services, and community veterinary services.

DELIVERABLES

The consulting firm will provide:

  • An inception report and training needs matrix;

  • Three training manuals, one per objective, with learner handouts and facilitator guides;

  • Delivery of the three training components in Juba and Yambio; and

  • Three final reports, one per objective, including pre- and post-training assessments, participant records disaggregated by gender, age, and disability, cooperative action plans, and practical recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Interested firms should demonstrate:

  • Valid legal registration;

  • At least five years of experience in agricultural extension, cooperative development, microfinance/VSLA establishment, and TVET soft-skills programming in fragile or post-conflict settings;

  • Proven experience delivering similar community training and capacity-building assignments;

  • A Team Leader/Agronomy and Value Chain Specialist with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Agronomy, Crop Production, or Horticulture and at least seven years of relevant field training experience;

  • A Cooperative Governance and Microfinance Specialist with an advanced degree in Agribusiness, Finance, Cooperative Management, or Rural Development and at least five years of relevant experience;

  • A Vocational Pedagogy and Soft Skills Specialist with a degree in Adult Education, Social Work, Human Resource Development, or TVET pedagogy and extensive experience training informal trade artisans; and

  • At least three verifiable client references for similar assignments.

Fluency in English is required across the team. Knowledge of local languages spoken in Western Equatoria, including Pazande, will be an advantage.

EVALUATION

Proposals will be evaluated using Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS):

  • Technical Proposal – 70%

  • Financial Proposal – 30%

  • Minimum technical qualifying score: 70/100

Only firms meeting the minimum technical threshold will proceed to financial evaluation.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Consulting firms must submit two separate PDF files:

  1. Technical Proposal – Agri-Coop & Artisan Capacity Building: Include an understanding of the TOR, proposed methodology, work plan and delivery schedule, firm profile, summaries of three recent similar assignments, client references, key experts’ CVs, a sample training module or curriculum outline, and valid legal registration documents.

  2. Financial Proposal – Agri-Coop & Artisan Capacity Building: Include a comprehensive, itemized budget in USD for the assignment.

Submission Email: [email protected]
Email Subject: CONSULTANCY PROPOSAL – AGRI-COOP & ARTISAN CAPACITY BUILDING [NAME OF FIRM]
Submission Deadline: Monday, 12 October 2026 at 5:00 PM (Juba Time)

Late submissions and submissions containing financial figures in the technical proposal will be automatically disqualified.

Clarifications: Please contact [email protected]. All clarification requests must be submitted no later than three days before the submission deadline.

Please refer to the attached Terms of Reference for the complete scope, deliverables, indicative timelines, and evaluation criteria.

AGRICULTURE AND ARTISANS CAPACITY STRENTHENING (1).pdf (233.2 KB)

Procurement Department, Humanity Worldwide