Consultancy Opportunity: Feasibility Study – SIRI (Myanmar)
(BMZ / bengo – Private Träger framework)
Start date: 26 February 2026
Level of effort: 20 working days (person-days)
Modality: Desk-based by default; Yangon travel only if feasible and pre-approved under current access/security conditions
Language: English (all deliverables)
Application deadline: 25 February 2026
Submit to: procurement@arche-nova.org
Email subject: “SIRI Feasibility Study – Application”
About the project
SIRI (Safety, Inclusion, and Resilience Initiative) is a planned, development-oriented project (01 July 2026 – 30 June 2030) in Myanmar, covering Kachin State and Southern Shan State. The approach combines two EquiHubs as regional platforms with outreach and partner-led governance, documentation, and monitoring routines. The central objective is to increase meaningful participation of marginalised women and adolescent girls in community-level decision-making and—where safe and feasible—support safe inclusion of other marginalised groups, including LGBTIQ+ persons.
A feasibility study is required before implementation to validate critical assumptions, confirm safe and workable modalities under access constraints, and finalise operational set-up in line with BMZ/bengo Private Träger requirements and a clear boundary from service provision.
Purpose of the assignment
To assess whether the SIRI implementation approach is feasible, safe, and verifiable under current access and risk conditions and to provide decision-ready recommendations to finalise operational planning prior to implementation.
The study must result in clear Go / Adjust / Do-not-proceed recommendations by component and geography, including conditions and triggers that must be met before implementation proceeds.
Scope (summary)
The consultant(s) will cover both target regions and all core components, including:
- Safe modalities to support women’s participation in community decisions, including practical measures to reduce barriers and visibility risks
- Access and operational feasibility (mobility, permissions, security constraints, partner presence)
- EquiHub and outreach modalities under access constraints (including low-visibility options)
- Safeguarding, PSEAH, child safeguarding, confidentiality and minimum-data workflows
- Monitoring/verification options suitable for audit-traceability without collecting sensitive personal case data
- Updated risk analysis (triggers, mitigation, residual risk statements)
- Sequencing/critical path, decision thresholds, contingency options
- Roles and responsibilities across PMO/lead organisation and partners (RACI)
- Desk-based plausibility checks for selected unit-cost assumptions (as feasible)
Out of scope: direct service delivery; collection of sensitive personal case data; any data collection that increases risk or visibility for participants.
Key deliverables (English; editable + PDF)
- Inception Note (max. 5 pages) – due Working Day 3–4
- Draft Feasibility Report – due Working Day 15–16
- Final Feasibility Report + Annex Package – due Working Day 20, including:
- Go / Adjust / Do-not-proceed decision matrix
- Updated risk table (triggers and actions)
- Unit-cost plausibility summary (selected items)
- Outline of recommended monitoring/documentation templates (audit-traceable)
- Final presentation / debrief slides – on submission of final report
Consultant profile
Individual consultants are eligible; team applications are preferred. The Lead Consultant should be a senior safeguarding and operational set-up specialist with strong facilitation skills and the ability to translate findings into practical, audit-traceable recommendations.
Required experience and competencies
- Feasibility/start-up/design-validation assignments in complex and/or access-constrained settings
- Demonstrated experience with BMZ/bengo-funded projects or feasibility work under the Private Träger (PT) framework (development orientation; audit-traceability; clear boundary to service provision)
- Strong safeguarding/PSEAH expertise, including design of confidential, minimum-data documentation workflows
- Experience with sensitive consultation design and interviewing using trauma-informed, survivor-centred approaches
- Ability to support or lead processes related to complaints handling / incident response and related investigations (including remote/low-access contexts)
- Strong facilitation skills (including validation sessions) and practical operational planning (sequencing, RACI, risk triggers)
- Experience in Southeast Asia; Myanmar experience strongly preferred
- Excellent English writing and presentation skills
Assets (particularly relevant in this assignment)
- Training design/delivery experience (safeguarding, PSEAH, safe consultation)
- Mediation / intercultural conflict management competence
- MHPSS technical understanding relevant to safe engagement in sensitive contexts
- Additional working languages beyond English (e.g., German/French/Spanish)
Team applications (preferred) should collectively cover safeguarding & confidential workflows, operational feasibility, MEAL/verification under access constraints, and cost plausibility/procurement risk awareness.
Application package (English; single PDF preferred)
- Technical proposal (max. 8–10 pages): understanding, methodology, workplan, roles/team composition (if applicable), ethics/safeguarding and data protection approach, approach to meaningful women’s participation and safe inclusion where feasible
- CV(s)
- One anonymised writing sample (assessment/feasibility style)
- Availability confirmation from 15 February 2026
How to apply
Please send the following application package to procurement@arche-nova.org by 25 February 2026:
Application package (English; single PDF preferred)
- Technical proposal (max. 8–10 pages): understanding, methodology, workplan, roles/team composition (if applicable), ethics/safeguarding and data protection approach, approach to meaningful women’s participation and safe inclusion where feasible
- CV(s)
- One anonymised writing sample (assessment/feasibility style)
- Availability confirmation from 26 February 2026