TOR of Consultant for Livestock Holders Group Training
INVITATION TO BID FOR INDIVIDUAL LOCAL CONSULTANCY
Save the Children International (SCI) Somaliland program hereby invites interested individual local consultants to bid for the consultancy assignment detailed below
| 1 | Title of Consultancy | TOR of Consultant for Livestock Holders Group Training Save the Children International – Somaliland Program | ||||||||||||
| 2 | SCI Contracting Office | Save the Children in Somaliland | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Period of Consultancy | Three (3) months. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Consultant type required | One Experienced and qualified Individual Consultants (Consultancy Company is not applicable). | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Responsibility for Consultant Costs | The consultant’s monthly fee will be paid as a lump‑sum, which must cover all personal costs, including insurance, meals, accommodation, and local transport within Hargeisa. SCI will not reimburse any additional personal expenses beyond the agreed lump‑sum fee | ||||||||||||
| A7 | Travel and Logistical Support | SCI will cover transport and per diem for official field travel outside Hargeisa required for this consultancy. However, while working within Hargeisa, the consultant is responsible for their own local transport and daily costs. | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Security requirements | The consultants will comply with the standard of Save the Children Security procedures. | ||||||||||||
Payment Terms and Conditions
| The consultant will be paid on a monthly basis, with each instalment released only after the submission of a satisfactory monthly progress report detailing activities completed, outputs achieved, and planned work for the following month, and upon formal approval of that report by Save the Children. The total consultancy fee will be agreed in the contract and disbursed in equal monthly payments in line with Save the Children’s financial procedures | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Consultant’s Experience Requirement: | The consultant must have a minimum of seven years’ professional experience in livestock development, pastoral or agro‑pastoral livelihoods, and capacity strengthening of livestock keepers, with proven hands‑on work in areas such as animal health, rangeland and fodder management, milk hygiene, and climate‑resilient herd practices. They should have demonstrated experience working directly with livestock holder groups or producer organisations, strong familiarity with Somaliland’s dryland production systems and MoLRD technical frameworks, and solid skills in facilitation, mentoring, and practical livestock training delivery, supported by strong analytical and reporting abilities and fluency in Somali with working English proficiency | ||||||||||||
| 10 | KEY PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENT | |||||||||||||
Minimum Qualifications and professional experience | ||||||||||||||
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| 11 | EVALUATION CRITERIA The proposals submitted by consultants will be evaluated based on the following criteria: | |||||||||||||
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The following award criteria will be used during the evaluation of the technical proposals.
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12. | Application Procedure | |||||||||||||
Candidates interested in the consultancy are expected to provide the following documentation:
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The Building Climate Resilience for Food Security Project is a 36-month resilience-building initiative funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) through World Food Programme (WFP) and jointly implemented by Save the Children International (SCI) and SCAN, a local partner.
The project responds to increasing climate-related shocks, particularly drought, erratic rainfall, rangeland degradation, and livestock disease outbreaks, which continue to undermine food security, incomes, and pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods across Somaliland. Smallholder livestock holders and livestock value chain actors are among the most affected, facing declining herd productivity, weak market access, and limited collective organisation.
The project’s Theory of Change follows a graduation approach, recognising that sustainable resilience requires sequenced and mutually reinforcing interventions over time. Over approximately 36 months, the project integrates five graduation pillars:
Consumption support / social protection
Financial inclusion
Social cohesion
Sustainable livelihoods
Mentorship
This consultancy contributes directly to Pillar Three: Support for Smallholder Farmers, Smallholder Livestock holders, and Food Value Chain Actors, with a specific focus on strengthening the technical livestock production skills of livestock‑keeping households to improve productivity, climate resilience, and household wellbeing.
Under this pillar, the project supports livestock input provision, rangeland restoration, access to climate risk information, improved animal husbandry, fodder production, milk hygiene, and basic veterinary practices. To enhance sustainability and adoption of improved practices, Save the Children seeks a Livestock Holders Group Training Consultant to deliver structured, practical, small‑group training sessions for livestock keepers across target districts. The consultant will focus on technical production topics and will coordinate with SCAN to ensure alignment with SCAN’s ongoing support to cooperative governance and organizational development.
Contact information
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Candidates interested in the consultancy are expected to provide the following documentation:
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Submissions
Interested consultants are requested to submit their BID applications by following the outlined procedures and send their complete proposals to somaliland.procurement@savethechildren.org from 22nd February to and not later than 4th March 2026 at 11:59 PM.