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Individual Consultant – Case Writer

Recruitment of Individual Consultant - Case Writer: 6 Weeks Assignment; 30 Consultancy Days.

Background: The Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global corporate leadership platform, with over 80 member companies that are incorporating inclusive business approaches in their operations to help advance the MDGs.

In October 2013, BCtA brought together a small group of key local stakeholders to initiate the discussion on the role of inclusive business and barriers to successful inclusive businesses connected to the health sector in Kenya.

In order to ensure a more targeted discussion, the issue of access to ORS and Zinc for the treatment of pediatric diarrhea was addressed, providing an example of supply chains of health products.

The Business Call to Action believes that inclusive businesses (social businesses) can play an important role in reaching low income populations with health knowledge, services and products.

In order for these businesses to be successful and achieve scale of social impact, an enabling ecosystem must exist which requires the support of local government agencies, multilaterals, NGOs, and the private sector.

During the discussion, it was clear that this group of stakeholders had successfully navigated how to create and sustain this type of enabling ecosystem.

Several themes and key success factors were discussed, and it was agreed that it could be very helpful for other projects if the successes of this initiative could be clearly documented in the form of a case study.

The case study should be focused on how the public private partnership was conceived, designed, and implemented with descriptions of the incentives necessary for each party.

Objective: Produce (identify, analyse, and write up) a case study and an accompanying power point presentation based on the meeting notes and further interviews (7 to 10) with key stakeholders.

Application Procedure

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications which should include the following:
  1. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) Template provided
  2. Detailed Curriculum Vitae
  3. Proposal for implementing the assignment - Template provided

Please quote “CASE WRITER - IEG” on the subject line.

Applications should be emailed to consultants.ken@undp.org to reach us not later than Thursday, 8th May 2014 at 12.00 Noon Kenya Time.

Please see the Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the Individual Contract Proposal form and the Terms and Conditions of Individual Contracts by visiting the UNDP Kenya Website: -




Recruitment of Individual Consultant to Support Finalization of Youth Polytechnic Strategy

Background: The Ministry of Education, Science & Technology has undertaken key reforms which culminated in the enactment of various laws and policies, including Sessional Paper No. 14 of 2012 on Education, Training and Research, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Act 2013 and Basic Education Act 2013.

The Directorate of Youth Training (DYT), under the Ministry of Education, Science & Technology is in the process of reviewing its Strategic Plan for Youth Polytechnics, which is aimed at aligning the programmes and activities of the Directorate with the new Government policies guiding Education and Training.

With the support of UNDP, DYT held a retreat to develop the first draft of the Youth Polytechnic strategy document for implementation of these policies in vocational training for effective skills development in Youth Polytechnics.

To enable the finalization of this draft strategy, DYT seeks consultancy services from qualified Kenyan applicants. The consultant will report to the Director, Directorate of Youth Training and the Programme Analyst, Inclusive Economic Growth Unit UNDP.

Overall objectives of the Consultancy: The overall objectives of the consultancy will be to support the Directorate of Youth Training in reviewing the draft Youth Polytechnic strategy, facilitate stakeholder engagement and finalization of the Strategy and Implementation Action Plan.

Application Procedure

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications which should include the following:
  1. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) Template provided
  2. Detailed Curriculum Vitae
  3. Proposal for implementing the assignment - Template provided

Please quote “Educational Policies Consultant - IEG” on the subject line.

Applications should be emailed to consultants.ken@undp.org to reach us not later than Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 12.00 Noon Kenya Time.

Please see the Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the Individual Contract Proposal form and the Terms and Conditions of Individual Contracts by visiting the UNDP Kenya Website: -