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Project Location: Samburu, Laikipia, Isiolo, and Marsabit Counties, Kenya
Duration: 12–15 Weeks
Expected Start Date: July 2026
Application Deadline: 24 June 2026
The WEE RESP+ Project is an ambitious initiative by IMPACT Kenya, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, designed to support pastoralist women to aggregate surplus goat milk, process it through value addition, and link products to formal and informal markets.
We are seeking a multi-disciplinary Consulting Firm or Consortium to conduct a comprehensive, 5-phase Formative Research and Feasibility Study. This study will serve as a critical decision-making tool to assess the economic, technical, social, and market viability of a sustainable, community-led, and gender-transformative goat milk value chain enterprise.
Production & Milk Supply Systems: Assessing volumes, seasonality, breeds, and pastoral ecosystems.
Market & Commercial Viability: Consumer willingness-to-pay surveys, competitive landscape analysis, and financial modeling (ROI).
Technical & Infrastructure Feasibility: Solar/grid energy infrastructure, water quality, and off-grid processing equipment.
Social & Gender Dynamics: Evaluating intra-household decision-making, time-use, and cooperative governance models.
Indigenous Knowledge Integration: Documenting and elevating traditional milk handling and rangeland practices as primary evidence.
The consultancy will be executed systematically across five distinct phases:
| Phase | Title | Primary Purpose | Key Output |
| Phase 1 | Inception & Design | Establish research parameters & framework | Inception Report & Tools |
| Phase 2 | Field Research & Data Collection | Primary fieldwork across the 4 target counties | Cleaned Datasets & Field Reports |
| Phase 3 | Market, Technical & Systems Analysis | Commercial, technical, risk, and asset modeling | Thematic Feasibility Reports |
| Phase 4 | Synthesis & Decision-Making | Test findings against viability thresholds | Integrated Feasibility Report (Go/No-Go) |
| Phase 5 | Implementation Framework | Design a scalable intervention model (conditional) | Phased Implementation Plan & MEL |
We explicitly encourage applications from consortia or firms that distribute expertise across the following core functional roles:
Role 1: Team Leader & Principal Investigator (Master’s/PhD, 10+ years leading applied research, ASAL context expert).
Role 2: Value Chain & Market Systems Specialist (7+ years in East African agricultural/dairy market entry and demand analysis).
Role 3: Business Development & Investment Specialist (Financial modeling, ROI scenario testing, cooperative governance).
Role 4: Dairy Technology & Manufacturing Specialist (Hands-on small-scale dairy processing, goat milk characteristics, KEBS/KDB compliance).
Role 5: Gender & Social Development Specialist (Applying tools like Pro-WEAI, navigating milk-to-market vs. nutrition trade-offs).
Role 6: Quantitative Research & Data Management Specialist (Sampling strategy, mobile data collection, R/Stata scripting).
Strict Non-Negotiables (Grounds for Disqualification)
Proposals attempting to collapse all roles into fewer than 4 named individuals.
Firms lacking deep, field-based ASAL research experience (relying solely on desk reviews).
Generic or tokenistic approaches to community engagement. We demand non-extractive, reciprocal research practices where community validation and data feedback are built into the budget.
Open Advertisement: 4 June 2026
Application Deadline: 24 June 2026
Interview Week: 1 July 2026
Work Commencement: 13 July 2026
Applicants must upload the following complete package via the portal:
Letter of Interest (Max 2 pages highlighting approach to non-extractive research).
Technical Proposal (Max 15 pages detailing methodology, team mapping, and risk mitigation).
Itemized Financial Proposal (In KES, broken down by professional fees, lab testing, community liaison compensation, and validation workshops).
CVs of All Team Members (Including links to publications/technical reports).
Two Samples of Comparable Prior Work (Value chain or gender-transformative research in pastoral settings).
Signed Conflict of Interest Declaration.
For any queries or administrative assistance during the application window, please reach out to:
procurements@impactkenya.org
CC: nlesoloyia@impactkenya.org and impactkenya2002@gmail.com
