Request for Expession of Interest for the Development of Livelihood and Economic Empowerment Strategy and Gender Action Plan at The Green Belt Movement

The service provider will be expected to undertake the following specific tasks:

• Conduct a participatory gender-sensitive rural poverty and livelihood analysis in the proposed project area(s) to help identify and better understand the needs, priorities, and expectations of poor rural people (including their livelihood strategies and outcomes, vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms, local poverty processes and rural institutions);
• Identify, describe and analyze rural women’s livelihoods and how they impact on women’s economic empowerment;
• Analyze and recommend viable commercial activities that generate economic and social benefits in ways that help meet conservation objectives while also acting as incentives;
• Evaluate and recommend adapations to the project design to accommodates the needs and priorities of the target group and facilitates its participation in project interventions and that the special concerns of vulnerable groups are taken into account;
• Analyze and recommend strategies that enhance gender mainstreaming and promote equal participation of women and men, boys and girls in protecting the environment and natural resources;
• Assess and recommend startegies that enhance decision making and equal access to and benefits from natural resources and economic development;
• Anaylize and recommend startegies that ensure participation of women and men and their benefits from profitable economic activities in agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development, access to productive resources – including land, services and inputs, finance, training – and information to markets and institutions;
• Identify and recommend gender-sensitive qualitative and quantitative project indicators; and 
• Unpack the recommended gender strategy into action plan: objectives, targets, activities, and indicators to track the progress of gender strategy implementation within the project.

Determination of the similarity of the experiences will be based on:
The nature of the Services:We are seeking a competent consultancy firm with technical expertise in gender empowerment, economics in livelihood improvement and sustainable land management to design the community-based gender action plan and livelihood strategy.

• The technical area and expertise:
• The consulting firm must have carried out similar assignments in the livelihood sector analysis, mapping needs assessment and developing action plans;
• The consulting firm must have carried out similar assignments supporting gender strategy development;
• The consulting firm must demonstrate strong experience with livelihood and gender analysis tools and methodologies; 
• The consulting firm must demonstrate strong experience in developing livelihood strategy through sustainable landscape management and watershed restoration; and 
• The consulting firm must have experience in carrying out similar assignments in Kenya