Consultancy for Private Sector Assessment at Millennium Water Alliance

ROLE OF MWA, PARTNERS AND CONSULTANT

• The MWA together will collaborate with the selected consultant to undertake the following roles:
• Provide consultant with background documents, reports, and available secondary data for review.
• Arrange and pay for travel from Nairobi to the field county headquarters. Travel must be approved by MWA in advance of any booking.
• Arrange and pay for accommodation and per diems for the consultant during site visits for data collection.
• Organize validation and dissemination workshop for the presentation of preliminary findings to the program stakeholders.
• Review and provide input on all consultant’s deliverables.
• Ensure smooth flow of consultancy engagement processes including contractual obligations.
• Share the final assessment report with all key stakeholders, including key program staff, partners, donor representative, national and county governments.

The roles of the facilitating partners (the county coordination units) shall include the following:

• Facilitate the consultant’s travel and movement within each of the five counties.
• Support the consultant in setting up key informant interviews and focused group discussions.
• Support the consultant in community sensitization and mobilization of respondents particularly for FGDs.

The roles of the consultant(s) shall include the following:

• Conduct desk‐review of relevant program documents and other secondary sources.
• Develop an inception report, detailing the agreed upon study design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, indicators, data- gathering tools, work plan schedule and budget to carry out the assignment, in consultation with MWA.
• Develop or refine data gathering tools in consultation with MWA.
• Plan and coordinate data collection.
• Conduct training for the data collection teams including pre‐testing of data collection tools.
• Work with the facilitating partners in assessment planning and logistics.
• Review and analyse collected data.
• Incorporate data from other studies locally and globally on private sector entry into marginalised ASAL areas.
• Draft the private sector assessment report.
• Present preliminary findings and draft report to program stakeholders for validation.
• Incorporate input from program stakeholders and develop and submit the final private sector assessment report. The final report should be graphically designed and aesthetically professional.

EXPERTISE REQUIRED FOR THE EVALUATION

We expect the consulting firm to present a core team with the following qualifications.

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No of staff

Basic requirements**

Team Lead

• At least a master’s degree in a relevant field, with at least 8 years relevant experience.
• He/she must have experience of leading major analytical and advisory assignments to stimulate private sector participation.
• Experience in business and financial modelling will be an added advantage
• The team lead should have strong report writing skills.

Market System Development Specialist

• At least a master’s degree in a relevant field (finance, investment, development, social entrepreneurship) with at least 5 years relevant experience
• He/she must have experience in successfully launching/supporting private sector business to expand their business to new sectors/regions/counties.
• He/she must be proficient in Market Systems Development methods.

Other requirements will include.

• A proven track record of professional execution of similar consultancies/assignments and demonstratable capacity to deliver high quality outputs within a short timeframe.
• Excellent analytical and deductions skills necessary for the review and development of business models.
• Excellent English report writing, and communication skills are required.

Previous work experience and knowledge of the context of the five counties is preferred but not necessary.

Consultants based in Kenya are preferred.

DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The private sector assessment will be conducted between April and June 2022 and is expected to take a maximum of 30 consulting days spread out over the 3 months.