[Consultancy] Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Environment and Climate Change (ECC) Integrated Market System Analysis (MSA) Study

Work package
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Environment and Climate Change (ECC) Integrated Market System Analysis (MSA) Study
Location
Kenya: Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab
Expected start date
June 29, 2026
Expected end date
August 7, 2026

Background
World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a leading Canadian international development organization that focuses on three programmatic areas: economic opportunities, Education, and Empowerment. Our vision is a world where every young person thrives and belongs. Our mission is to catalyze change by improving education and economic opportunities for young people. We support all young people, with a focus on women and people affected by displacement. Our organizational values are rooted in a commitment to collaboration and partnership, learning and adaptability, courageous leadership, youth voice and agency, and inclusion for all.
WUSC currently works in over 25 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Latin America, with an annual budget of approximately CAD 50 million. Globally, we partner with a network of higher education institutions, civil society organizations, private sector partners, professionals, students, volunteers, faculty, and community leaders who help us achieve our mission.

Project Description
The Strengthen Skills Training Ecosystems & Pathways (STEP) project is a seven-year initiative that aims to enhance the economic well-being of displaced and host community youth, particularly young women, by increasing access to market-relevant skills training, promoting equitable transitions to employment and entrepreneurship, and expanding digital and remote work opportunities in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab regions in Kenya. STEP builds on WUSC's past successes, such as the LEAP and DREEM 1.0 projects, and aligns with Kenya's Shirika Plan and Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy.
STEP's design is informed by an intersectional understanding of exclusion and by the recognition that labor mobility is a core determinant of whether skills training actually translates into work. Young refugees and host community youth, especially adolescent girls and young women, face overlapping constraints linked to documentation and movement barriers, limited access to work authorization, transport costs, commute safety, household gatekeeping, care responsibilities, time poverty, restrictive social and gender norms, limited digital access, protection and security risks, disability-related barriers, language barriers, and weak market linkages. In Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab, these barriers affect equitable participation in training, higher-return sectors, entrepreneurship, and decent work, and also the ability to move safely, legally, affordably, and consistently between home, training sites, workplaces, markets, county towns, nationally, globally, and to digital access points for apprenticeships, interviews, onboarding, business development, and access to markets beyond immediate camp locations.
The project also recognizes that exclusion is not experienced uniformly. Women and girls, young men and boys, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ individuals, underserved groups, and youth with caregiving responsibilities may experience different forms and intensities of exclusion. Policy and implementation gaps further shape these outcomes, including inconsistent access to documentation, permits, transport, labor market entry points, and mobility, as well as to disability-inclusive or safeguarding-responsive services.
Given these intersecting barriers faced by youth, particularly young women and other underserved groups, a comprehensive intersectional Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Environment and Climate Change (ECC) integrated Market Systems Analysis (MSA) study will assess structural, social, institutional, economic, and protection-related barriers that shape access, participation, retention, transition, and identify practical, context-responsive measures to strengthen inclusive, equitable, and safe project delivery.

Nature and Scope
WUSC is seeking a consultant (firm) to conduct a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Environment and Climate Change-integrated (ECC) Market Systems Analysis (MSA) to validate priority sectors and sub-sectors for the STEP project and to inform inclusive, climate-resilient pathways to skills development, labor mobility, employment, entrepreneurship, and digital work for refugee and host-community youth.
The analysis will build on preliminary research conducted during project design and will focus on Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab, while also considering relevant national, regional, and international market linkages. Using a market systems approach, the study will examine supply- and demand-side constraints, ecosystem actors, enabling environment factors, service gaps, and market opportunities that affect young people's access to decent and sustainable livelihoods.
The MSA will integrate GESI and ECC considerations throughout the analysis. It will examine how gender inequality, disability exclusion, legal and administrative barriers, protection risks, social norms, unpaid care responsibilities, environmental degradation, and climate-related shocks affect the participation of refugee and host-community youth in and benefits from digital employment and entrepreneurship pathways.
Labor mobility will be treated as a core link between skills development and actual access to work, markets, employers, remote work, and digital income opportunities. The analysis will also assess how climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable market pathways can strengthen the viability of STEP-supported employment and entrepreneurship models in displacement-affected and Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) contexts.
The findings will inform STEP's project implementation, partner engagement, safeguarding, GESI and ECC strategies, monitoring, learning, adaptive management, and any required refinements to the project design.

The specific objectives of this GESI-ECC integrated Market Systems Analysis are to:

• Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Protection, and Climate Vulnerability
  Examine the GESI context shaping access to training, employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and labor mobility, including legal and regulatory barriers, documentation and right-to-work constraints, social norms, gender roles, unpaid care responsibilities, time use, household decision-making, control over income, access to finance, service access, mobility, and personal safety.
  
• Apply an intersectional analysis to understand how barriers, risks, and opportunities differ across groups, including by sex, age, disability, displacement status, documentation status, caregiving status, socioeconomic status, language, religion, ethnicity, region, and SOGIESC.
  
• Assess human rights, protection, safeguarding, labor rights, and digital safety risks relevant to STEP, including discrimination, GBV, sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, retaliation, exploitation, unsafe working conditions, exclusion from services, online harms, and workplace safety risks.
  
• Identify groups most at risk of exclusion or harm and recommend practical mitigation measures, including safeguarding, accessibility, reasonable accommodation, and do-no-harm measures to support safe, inclusive, and accountable implementation.
  
• Analyze how climate change and environmental degradation affect economic agency differently across groups affected by displacement, particularly young women, persons with disabilities, caregiving youth, and SOGIESC-diverse youth, including effects on time poverty, mobility, safety, livelihoods, service access, and participation in training and work.
  Identify opportunities and leverage points to strengthen young women's leadership, disability inclusion, accessibility, meaningful participation, and equitable outcomes across training, employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and market systems.
  

Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development, and Market Systems

• Assess the digital employment and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab, including market opportunities, skills demand, service providers, institutional capacities, employer and client requirements, and linkages to national, regional, and international digital markets.
  
• Validate priority sectors and sub-sectors for STEP by assessing their economic viability, environmental sustainability, climate resilience, accessibility, and relevance for refugee and host community youth, particularly young women, persons with disabilities, and other underserved groups.
  
• Develop market systems maps that identify core market functions, supporting services, enabling-environment factors, key actors, relationships, incentives, bottlenecks, and leverage points that influence refugee and host community participation in the digital economy and the wider enterprise ecosystem.
  
• Identify and assess key ecosystem actors for potential project engagement, including digital sector actors, employers, entrepreneurs, TVET and training institutions, financial service providers, enterprise support organizations, accreditation bodies, regulators, government actors, RLOs, WROs, OPDs, protection actors, and other relevant service providers.
  
• Assess environmental and climate-related risks and opportunities affecting STEP-supported entrepreneurship and market pathways, including risks to infrastructure, energy systems, digital connectivity, transport routes, workplaces, supply chains, livelihoods, youth-led enterprises, training delivery, and the sustainability of selected market opportunities.
  

Employment, Digital Work, Skills, and Labor Mobility

• Analyze labor mobility pathways and constraints affecting transitions from training to employment, entrepreneurship, remote work, and digital income opportunities, including documentation, work authorization, movement permissions, transport, safety, employer requirements, credential recognition, recruitment channels, and administrative barriers.
  
• Understand and segment job seekers and workers from refugee and host communities based on their diverse work aspirations, capacities, constraints, and support needs to inform targeted STEP pathways for wage employment, self-employment, digital work, and labor mobility.
  
• Analyze how the advance of artificial intelligence is reshaping digital work opportunities, employer expectations, skills demand, entry-level pathways and potential job displacement, including which tasks, roles and sectors are likely to be transformed, reduced or newly created; what technical, human and AI-enabled skills refugee and host community youth will need to remain competitive; which sectors and occupations STEP should prioritize based on demand, accessibility, income potential, resilience and inclusion; and which sectors or roles should not be pursued because they are declining, oversaturated, inaccessible, low-value, environmentally unsustainable, unsafe, exploitative or unlikely to generate decent work outcomes for young women, persons with disabilities and other underserved groups.
  
• Evaluate the capacity of TVET and institutional partners to deliver inclusive, accessible, market-relevant, green, and climate-resilient skills training, including alignment with Kenya's green economy priorities and the skills required for low-carbon, climate-adaptive, and digitally enabled livelihoods.
  
• Provide actionable recommendations to inform STEP's implementation approach, including partner engagement, safeguarding, GESI and ECC strategies, advocacy, monitoring, learning, accountability, adaptive management, and policy or systems engagement with relevant actors, including the Department of Refugee Services, where appropriate.
  

Use of Findings
The findings will inform the design of inclusive, climate-responsive, and market-relevant training, employment, entrepreneurship, labor mobility, and digital work interventions for refugee and host community youth, with particular attention to young women and other groups facing intersecting barriers.
By integrating GESI and ECC considerations, the MSA will:

• Provide an overview of the labor market, including key occupations, employers, market actors, formal and informal work opportunities, and providers of professional, technical, and vocational education in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab, Kenya, and globally. 
  
• Inform the demand and supply analysis of priority occupations and skills in the digital sector, including their suitability, accessibility, and viability for young women, young men, gender-diverse individuals, persons with disabilities, and other underserved groups in employment and entrepreneurship pathways.
  
• Identify market opportunities and constraints affecting access to wage employment, entrepreneurship, digital income generation, and labor mobility among refugee and host-community youth.
  
• Develop market systems maps of key actors, support services, enabling environment factors, barriers, relationships, and employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. These maps will be developed using Mural or another appropriate digital platform, enabling updates throughout project implementation.
  

The GESI findings will:

• Inform the identification and mitigation of GESI-, safeguarding-, protection-, and inclusion-related risks associated with STEP implementation.
  
• Analyze how power, privilege, social norms, discrimination, and unequal access to and control over resources, assets, services, opportunities, and decision-making affect young women, young men, persons with disabilities, SOGIESC-diverse youth, and other underserved groups differently within the market system.
  
• Provide practical recommendations to tailor project interventions in ways that reduce inequality gaps, address exclusion, strengthen accessibility, mitigate harm, and support more equitable participation and outcomes.
  
• Guide the development of the STEP GESI Strategy for inclusion in the Project Implementation Plan and inform targeted capacity strengthening for STEP staff, partners, and key ecosystem actors.
  
• Strengthen alignment between the GESI Analysis and related STEP assessments, including the Baseline Study.
  

The ECC findings will:

• Identify climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable opportunities accessible to marginalized youth in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab.
  
• Analyze how climate change and environmental degradation may deepen existing inequalities, including through increased time poverty, reduced mobility, livelihood disruption, infrastructure damage, care burdens, safety risks, and reduced access to training, markets, and work.
  
• Recommend climate-adaptive enablers that address both environmental and social barriers, such as water-efficient technologies, climate-resilient training infrastructure, accessible transport solutions, childcare near training centers, safe digital workspaces, and environmentally sustainable enterprise models.
  
• Assess the vulnerability of STEP's wage employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and labor mobility pathways to environmental shocks, infrastructure disruptions, policy shifts, and market changes.
  Provide recommendations to strengthen the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of STEP-supported economic pathways.
  

Scope
The GESI-ECC – integrated MSA will:

• Cover Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab project sites
  Assess both refugee and host-community contexts and their interactions with ecosystem actors (financial service providers, business development providers, digital infrastructure providers, etc.,) and their roles supporting entrepreneurs coupled with the dynamics of the enabling environment. 
  
• Focus on pathways from training to work, with labor mobility (including outside of camp/settlement sites at national, regional, and international levels) treated as a central analytical lens across employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and decent work conditions.
  
• Examine formal and informal TVET, digital learning, employment ecosystems, and enterprise development.
  
• Consider barriers and opportunities across multiple identity markers, including gender, age, disability, displacement status, language, religion, region, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and gender identity expression (SOGIESC).
  
• Analyze household and community norms, power relations, and gatekeeping hat practices affecting labor mobility, geographic mobility, sector choice, care burdens, safety, control over income, and decision-making.
  
• Review policies, systems, and practices of relevant institutions (TVET actors, RLOs, WROs, ESOs, accreditation bodies and regulators, employers, NGOs, and government agencies).
  
• Identify practical implications for outreach, participation, mobility-responsive implementation, curriculum adaptation, digital inclusion, safeguarding, referral pathways, and institutional strengthening.
  
• Examine pathways from skills development to employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and decent work, with particular attention to labor mobility across and beyond the project sites. This includes the legal, administrative, physical, social, and economic factors that affect movement between home, training sites, workplaces, markets, digital hubs, and other spaces of economic participation.
  

Team Roles and Responsibilities 
The assignment will be delivered through a coordinated team approach, with each technical and implementing partner contributing specialized expertise to the design, implementation, analysis, validation, and quality assurance of the GESI-ECC integrated MSA.

Key Responsibilities: 

Consultants: 

- Overall study design and delivery
- Develop a detailed work plan that clarifies the study's overall approach, methodology, tools, timeline, roles, and deliverables. 
- Lead implementation of the GESI-ECC integrated MSA, including data collection, analysis, synthesis, reporting, and validation, in close coordination with WUSC and project partners.

WUSC GESI Advisor:
- Ensure that the GESI-ECC-integrated MSA study identifies and analyzes structural barriers affecting young women, persons with disabilities, SOGIESC-diverse youth, and other underserved groups. 
- Review and strengthen all data collection tools, including FGD and KII guides, from a GESI, safeguarding, accessibility, and do-no-harm perspective. 
- Guide the analysis of social norms, unpaid care responsibilities, time poverty, safety, decision-making, access to resources, and participation in digital work. 
Quality assures the GESI analysis and related recommendations in the final report.

WUSC ECC Advisor: 
- Ensure the MSA identifies climate-resilient economic pathways, green growth opportunities, and environmentally sustainable market niches. 
- Support the identification of high-potential green sectors for deeper analysis. 
Assess climate-related risks to project infrastructure, including digital hubs, TVET centers, transport routes, energy systems, and connectivity. 
- Ensure ECC recommendations align with Kenya's green economy priorities and relevant climate resilience frameworks.

WUSC MSD Advisor:
- Oversee the application of the MSD methodology to ensure the analysis identifies the root causes of market-system constraints.
- Provide technical backstopping throughout the assignment.
- Ensure that entrepreneurship, wage employment, digital work, and labor mobility pathways are analyzed within a connected ecosystem. 
- Review the final report to ensure recommendations support market facilitation, systems change, sustainability, and scale, rather than only direct delivery.

Na'amal (Digital Pathways): 
- Provide technical insight into international digital labor markets, remote work requirements, and global outsourcing trends.
- Facilitate KIIs with international and global digital employers where relevant. 
- Analyze the alignment between refugee youth skills, digital work requirements, and global demand. 
- Provide guidance on hardware, software, connectivity, digital infrastructure, and work-readiness standards required for viable digital employment pathways.

MacMaster University (research lead):
- Support the international demand analysis and ensure entrepreneurship is adequately integrated into data synthesis.
- Coordinate research on the Canadian labor market, employer requirements, and employer willingness to engage refugee talent.
- Leverage the CRCOE to analyze youth entrepreneurship models and relevant evidence. 
- Support the synthesis and drafting of the final analytical report, particularly sections on entrepreneurship, research evidence, and international market linkages.

Dadaab Collective (Local Implementation and Mobilization Lead: Dadaab):
- Serve as the local technical and mobilization partner for data collection in the Dadaab refugee settlements. 
- Mobilize refugee and host community youth, including underserved groups, for FGDs and KIIs.
- Provide real-time contextual insight into the informal economy, local market dynamics, administrative barriers, documentation issues, permits, and service access in Dadaab. 
- Support validation of field findings to ensure they accurately reflect the Dadaab socio-economic and protection context.

Solidarity Initiative for Refugees (SIR) (Local Implementation and Mobilization Lead: Kakuma/Kalobeyei):
- Lead local mobilization, coordination, and context validation for Kakuma and Kalobeyei. 
- Coordinate field logistics for the consultant team in Turkana West.
- Facilitate access for refugee and host-community actors, including community leaders, youth groups, service providers, employers, and local institutions. 
- Support analysis of host-refugee economic dynamics, social cohesion, mobility, access to services, and local market constraints. 
- Validate field findings to ensure they accurately reflect the socio-economic and protection context in Kakuma and Kalobeyei.

Specific Assignment Tasks 

Develop a detailed work plan to clarify and refine the study's overall approach, methodology, and timing.
Review and refine GESI-ECC-integrated draft data qualitative and quantitative collection tools (Annex 1), including key research questions, analysis approach, and report templates (Annexes 2-4)
Collect quantitative and qualitative data, including reviews of secondary information, and primary data through focus group discussions (FGDs), and key informant interviews (KIIs).
Prepare reports as documented in the deliverables below.
Participate in a review, interpretation,  and sense-making workshop with WUSC staff and key actors.
Revise the reports and recommendations based on the workshop results for the final submission.

Deliverables and Expected Outputs
The consultant will be responsible for producing the following deliverables in close consultation with the STEP project team, integrating GESI, ECC, safeguarding, protection, accessibility, and market systems considerations throughout: 

Inception Report: 
Serves as the roadmap for the assignment and ensures shared understanding between the consultant and the STEP project team before data collection begins.
The inception report should include: a refined methodology; a detailed work plan and timeline; sampling strategy for Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab; proposed respondent categories; a list of key actors for KIIs and FGDs; ethical, safeguarding, accessibility, and do-no-harm protocols; and an outline of how GESI and ECC will be integrated across the analysis. 
Draft data collection tools should be annexed, including questionnaires, FGD guides, KII guides, observation checklists, and any tools for market systems mapping. These tools should be GESI-responsive, ECC-informed, disability-inclusive, age-appropriate, and sensitive to the dynamics of refugee and host communities.

2. Consultation Notes and Secondary Data Summary:
Provides a clear record of evidence gathered through interviews, consultations, and desk review.
This should include detailed consultation notes from KIIs, FGDs, and other stakeholder engagements, as well as a summary of relevant secondary data. 
The summary should identify emerging patterns, gaps, contradictions, and issues requiring further validation. 
Data should be organized to support analysis by geography, sex, age, disability, displacement status, and other relevant identity markers, where feasible and ethical.

3. Draft GESI-ECC Integrated Market Systems Analysis Report
Serves as the primary analytical report synthesizing local, national, and international evidence on digital employment, entrepreneurship, labor mobility, GESI, ECC, and market systems dynamics.
The draft report should synthesize findings from Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab; Kenya-level actors; and relevant Canadian/global market actors. It should include analysis of labor market trends, digital sector opportunities, entrepreneurship pathways, wage employment prospects, labor mobility constraints, employer demand, skills gaps, and market system functions. It should map core market actors, supporting services, rules, relationships, incentives, constraints, and opportunities. 
The report should integrate GESI barriers and opportunities affecting young women, young men, persons with disabilities, SOGIESC-diverse youth, and other underserved groups. It should also assess climate risks to infrastructure, livelihoods, training delivery, and market pathways; identify green and climate-resilient skills; and assess the feasibility of digital and remote work pathways from refugee settlements, including connectivity, hardware, workplace standards, and employer requirements.

4. Draft Standalone GESI Analysis Report
Provides a deeper analysis of gender equality, social inclusion, safeguarding, protection, and power-related dynamics that may not be fully captured in the broader MSA.
This deliverable should analyze structural and intersectional barriers affecting participation in training, employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and labor mobility. It should examine social norms, gender roles, unpaid care work, time poverty, household decision-making, control over income, safety, GBV risks, SEA/SH risks, workplace harassment, digital safety, mobility constraints, and access to resources and services. It should also assess how multiple and intersecting identities, such as gender, disability, displacement status, age, caregiving status, documentation status, and SOGIESC, shape exclusion and opportunity. 
The report should provide practical recommendations for GESI-transformative, inclusive, accessible, and safeguarding-informed interventions within STEP's dual-pathway model.

5. Draft Standalone ECC Analysis Report
Provides a deeper technical analysis of environmental sustainability, climate resilience, green skills, and climate-related risks and opportunities relevant to STEP.
This deliverable should assess how climate risks, including extreme heat, drought, flash floods, water scarcity, and infrastructure disruption, affect market systems, digital work, livelihoods, training delivery, youth-led enterprises, and labor mobility. 
It should map risks to physical and digital infrastructure, including TVET centers, digital hubs, energy systems, connectivity, transport routes, and workplaces. It should assess green and climate-resilient market opportunities, including sectors such as solar, circular economy, climate-smart agribusiness, and other relevant digital or service-based opportunities. 
It should include a gap analysis of TVET curricula and institutional capacity against green skills requirements, and provide recommendations to reduce the environmental footprint of youth-led enterprises, digital workspaces, and outsourcing models. Where relevant, the analysis should align with Kenya's climate and green economy policy priorities.

6. Validation Workshop and Presentation
Provides an opportunity to validate findings, test recommendations, build partner ownership, and ensure the analysis reflects local realities and implementation priorities.
The consultants should prepare and deliver a concise PowerPoint presentation summarizing key findings, market system maps, GESI and ECC implications, proposed intervention areas, risks, and recommendations. 
The validation workshop should be participatory and involve WUSC staff, implementing partners, RLOs, WROs, OPDs, relevant government actors, private-sector actors, training institutions, and other key stakeholders. 
The consultants should document feedback and indicate how it will be incorporated into the final report

7. Public-Facing Labor Market Analysis Brief
The brief should synthesize the most relevant findings, trends, opportunities, constraints, and recommendations from the full analysis into clear, non-technical language for wider public consumption, including partners, donors, government actors, private-sector stakeholders, and other external audiences.
It should highlight priority employment, entrepreneurship, digital work, and labor mobility opportunities; key barriers affecting refugee and host-community youth; and practical recommendations to strengthen inclusive and climate-resilient pathways to decent work. The product should be visually engaging, concise, and suitable for external dissemination.

8. Final GESI-ECC Integrated Market Systems Analysis Report
Serves as the final consolidated evidence base to inform STEP implementation, partner engagement, strategy development, monitoring, learning, and adaptive management.
The final report should incorporate feedback from WUSC, partners, and validation workshop participants. It should provide clear, prioritized, and actionable recommendations for STEP's training, employment, entrepreneurship, labor mobility, digital work, safeguarding, GESI, ECC, and partnership approaches.
Recommendations should clarify how WUSC and its partners can facilitate systemic change rather than relying solely on direct service delivery. 
The report should include suggested intervention options, partner engagement priorities, risk mitigation measures, implementation considerations, and proposed indicators or learning questions for tracking GESI and ECC progress within the market system

The GESI and ECC standalone reports may be developed as technical annexes or companion reports to the integrated MSA. They should provide a deeper thematic analysis without duplicating the main report. The integrated MSA should remain the primary consolidated analytical product, while the GESI and ECC reports should provide more detailed evidence, risks, and recommendations to inform the STEP GESI Strategy, ECC Strategy, PIP, safeguarding approach, and implementation planning

TIMELINES
The completion period should be between June 16 and July 27, 2026. 
Phase 1: Scoping and preparation
Consultation with project team; Review of existing data; Submission of detailed work plan.
Duration: 2 days
Timeline: June 30, 2026

Phase 2: Preliminaries
Desk research; Review of collection tools (KIIs/FGDs).
Duration: 4 days
Timeline: July 6, 2026

Phase 3: Data Collection
Field research in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab; international interviews with Canadian partners
Duration: 14 days
Timeline: June 24, 2026

Phase 4: Data Analysis and Writing
Data cleaning, presentation of key findings, and development of draft reports.
Duration: 5 days
Timeline: July 31, 2026

Phase 5: Validation
Internal and external stakeholder validation workshops; Final report incorporating feedback
Duration: 3 days
Timeline: August 5, 2026

Phase 6: Public-Facing Labor Market Analysis Brief
Brief synthesis of the most relevant findings, trends, opportunities, constraints, and recommendations for wider public consumption
Duration: 2 days
Timeline: August 7, 2027

TOTAL: 30 days 

Consultants Qualifications
Academic background
Lead consultant: Master's degree or PhD in Economics, Development Studies, International Relations, or Sustainable Development.
GESI specialist: Advanced degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Work, or Human Rights.
Environmental/Climate specialist: Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change Adaptation, or Natural Resource Management.
Technical expertise & experience
Market Systems Development (MSD) expertise: At least 7–10 years of experience conducting Market Systems Analysis (MSA) using the MSD approach.
Refugee & displacement context: Proven experience working in fragile or displacement-affected environments, specifically in Turkana or Garissa counties.
GESI integration: Demonstrated expertise in applying GESI frameworks to economic programming, including experience with PWDs and LGBTQ+ cohorts.
Green economy knowledge: Experience in identifying green jobs and analyzing green growth sectors (e.g., renewable energy, circular economy) within development projects.
Labor mobility knowledge: Familiarity with international labor pathways, digital remote work, and the Kenyan Refugees Act (2021) / Shirika Plan.
Functional skills
Mixed-methods research: High proficiency in both quantitative (survey design, data modeling) and qualitative (KIIs, FGDs, ethnographic observation) research methodologies.
Stakeholder engagement: Ability to navigate and interview high-level stakeholders, including government duty-bearers (DRS, KRA), UN agencies, and private sector CEOs.
Strategic synthesis: The ability to translate complex data into practical adaptive management recommendations for project staff.

Language and cultural competence
Full professional proficiency in English.
The team must include members or local research assistants fluent in Swahili, Somali, and/or Turkana to ensure culturally sensitive and accurate data collection in the field.

Applications
Qualified and interested parties are asked to submit the following: 
- A technical proposal clearly describing the methodology to be used in conducting the GESI/ECC-integrated MSA, and a detailed outline of the relevant qualifications and experience of members of the research team. 
- A detailed financial proposal, inclusive of: a work plan stating outputs/deliverables, level of effort of members of the team, expected timeframe, unit and total cost; summary of proposed cost; and proposed payment schedule.