Consultancy Terms of Reference

CONSULTANCY TERMS OF REFERENCE

1. Background

CAMFED Zambia’s programme centres on supporting vulnerable girls through education, helping them push up their learning outcomes in school, and enabling them to make a successful transition from school into adult life, further and higher education, and enterprise. Lately, agricultural entrepreneurship has been a particular focus as the prime opportunity available to young people in the rural communities where most CAMFED-supported girls are based. A gap in our current post-school programme is a formal structure through which to support educated young women into formal employment, where opportunities are less widespread and more difficult to access. Within CAMA, CAMFED’s alumnae network of school and university graduates, there exists a large cohort of educated young women who are actively seeking employment. Approximately 1150 CAMA members have a tertiary qualification or are shortly about to graduate.

Young women form one of those vulnerable groups, for whom the challenge of securing paid employment is particularly acute: the latest Labour Force Survey undertaken in Zambia (2014) showed approximately 60% of young women, both in rural and urban areas, to be in un-paid employment. The barriers to employment in the formal economy are numerous, including but not limited to interview skills, lack of awareness of opportunities, gender bias among employers, and lack of funds for travel costs, even just to attend an interview.

2. Purpose of the study

To analyse the barriers to educated young women from marginalised backgrounds securing employment in the formal economy.

3. Scope of work

• Focus groups with CAMA members actively seeking employment, to better understand the context and barriers.
• Collation and development of tools to address barriers identified, for example interview skills.
• Identification of potential partners for employment and internship opportunities. This would include considerations around safeguarding and equality and the development of criteria for companies to work with – resulting in a mapping out of opportunities.

4. Time and work plan

The estimated time for conducting this assignment is 10 days:

5. Remuneration, logistics and duration of the contract

• The consultants will be paid an agreed daily rate based on qualification and experience. Workdays will be distributed between the date of contract signature and end date of the consultancy.
• Payment fees will be based on the delivery of outputs, as follows:
• 30% upon approval of the design/Inception Report.
• 40% upon submission and presentation of the draft report;
• 30% upon submission of the final report.
• In addition to professional fees that the Consultant should include in the bid, the consultant must include all expenses including workshop costs, travel, accommodation, per diem, stationery and communication.
• The Consultant will work from their premises, using their own equipment.

6. Application Procedures

Applications consisting of:

• A cover letter summarising suitability and qualifications for this assignment;
• List of relevant similar assignments or actual outputs from these assignments;
• CVs of the team members;
• Technical and financial proposal with indicative work plan showing consultant’s planned approach to the assignment;
• Company profile and compliance to the Laws of the Republic of Zambia, if registered as a company.

Any other support documents.

Documents indicating “CONSULTANCY – YOUNG WOMEN EMPLOYMENT” should be sent before close of business on 29 June 2020 to [email protected]. Only applications via email will be considered.