CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE PROVISION OF MONITORING AND VERIFICATION FIRM FOR NYOTA PROJECT

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION) Country: KENYA Name of Project: NATIONAL YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES TOWARDS ADVANCEMENT (NYOTA) Credit No. IDA-7355-KE/ Grant No: E210-KE Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for the Provision of Monitoring and Verification Firm for NYOTA Project The Government of Kenya, with financing from the World Bank, invites eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the assignment indicated above under the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) Project. The NYOTA Project aims to increase employment and earnings and promote savings for targeted youth at national scale. The Project is expected to reach 820,000 vulnerable youth across all 47 counties of Kenya, including refugees in Garissa and Turkana counties. The Project beneficiaries are youth aged 18-29 years, and up to 35 years for persons with disabilities, with little or no education, who are unemployed or in vulnerable employment. The consulting services (“the Services”) include independent monitoring and verification of results reported by Employer Organizations and other Service Providers under the NYOTA On-the-Job Experience (OJE) results-based financing arrangement. The assignment will cover verification of placement into apprenticeship, retention during apprenticeship, and retention in paid employment after apprenticeship, including review of Project system records, administrative data, remote verification, field verification, spot checks, evidence logs, and payment eligibility summaries. For clarity, the results-based financing milestones to be verified are: Milestone 1: placement into apprenticeship; Milestone 2: retention in apprenticeship for five months; and Milestone 3: retention in paid employment for six months after apprenticeship. These are referred to in the TOR as M1, M2 and M3 verification cycles, respectively. The estimated beneficiary population from which verification claims may arise i