Terms of Reference
Expression of Interest to Hire consultant for Consultancy for Finalization of Project Knowledge Documents and Development of an Overall Learning Document
Position title: Consultant/Resource person
- Background:
The Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC), established in 1991, is a prominent non-governmental organization in Nepal dedicated to addressing and preventing violence against women and girls. WOREC works to tackle the root causes of violence, enhance the economic, social, and cultural well-being of women and marginalized groups, and promote women’s human rights. The organization envisions a society where feminist goals are achieved, with a focus on decent work, bodily integrity, and identity.
Under the EWR project, WOREC has implemented a range of interventions to achieve the project’s objectives and generate evidence, practices, and learning relevant to its thematic areas. The project has produced and/or initiated several knowledge documents to capture key findings, experiences, approaches, results, and emerging lessons from implementation.
To ensure that these knowledge products are technically sound, evidence-based, coherent, and ready for dissemination, WOREC seeks to hire a qualified consultant to review and finalize the existing knowledge documents and develop an overarching project learning document. The assignment will synthesize the project’s achievements, implementation experiences, effective practices, challenges, adaptations, and lessons learned, highlighting their relevance for future programming, policy engagement, and institutional learning.
The consultancy will ensure that the individual knowledge products and the overall learning document are aligned, complement one another, and collectively communicate the project’s contributions and learning.
2. Objective:
To finalize the project’s existing knowledge documents and develop a comprehensive, evidence-based learning document that captures the project’s key results, experiences, innovations, challenges, and lessons for future programming and wider dissemination.
- Consultant’s scope of work:
The consultant will:
- Review and finalize the existing project knowledge documents to ensure technical accuracy, clarity, consistency, and quality.
- Review relevant project reports, monitoring data, and other documentation to ensure evidence-based content.
- Develop an overall project learning document highlighting key achievements, effective practices, challenges, adaptations, and lessons learned.
- Incorporate gender equality, social inclusion, and intersectional perspectives throughout the knowledge products.
- Incorporate feedback from WOREC and submit the final documents in editable and publication-ready formats.
- Deliverables:
- Finalized knowledge documents: Revised and finalized versions of all existing project knowledge products.
- Draft overall learning document: A consolidated document capturing project achievements, approaches, challenges, good practices, and lessons learned.
- Final overall learning document: A revised document incorporating feedback from WOREC and relevant stakeholders.
- Final knowledge package: All approved documents submitted in editable Word and publication-ready PDF formats.
- Duration of work:
The contract shall commence November 5 – November 25 unless it is terminated earlier in accordance with the terms of this contract.
- Payment schedule:
Payment to the consultant will be done after the completion of the proofreading of knowledge documents and providing reports.
Note: 15% tax will be deducted after completion of each service and submission of appropriate invoices.
- Entire Contract
This contract is the final, exclusive and complete expression of the consultant agreement related to this service, and it supersedes all task, oral or written, and all other representations, statements, negotiations and undertakings relating to the service unless expressly incorporated herein. No modification of any term, provision or condition in this contract shall be effective unless it shall be in writing and signed by the consultant. However, as per the need both parties should be agreed to provide the services for further days.
- Relationship of the Parties
In performing the services, the consultant shall act as an independent and shall not be deemed to be an employee or agent of WOREC. The consultant shall be solely responsible for and shall be liable for, indemnify, defend and hold WOREC harmless against all wages, fees, contributions, charges and taxes required by legislation. All appropriate deductions are made in respect of income tax and other contributions.
WOREC shall not be liable for providing any benefits of any kind except as provision of payment mentioned above in sub heading 6 to the consultant.
This contract shall not be deemed to create any kind of partnership, joint venture, agency or franchise agreement with the Consultant.
- Assignments and Sub-Contracting
The consultant shall not assign this contract its right or obligations under this MOU, in whole or in part. Nor enter into any sub-contracting to perform any portion of this MOU, without the written consent of the organization.
The consultant shall not sublet the whole or part of their obligations without the prior written consent of WOREC, which consent, if given, will not relieve the consultant from any liability or obligation under this contract. The consultant shall be responsible for the acts and omissions of any sub-contractor as if they were the acts or omissions of the consultant.
- Termination
Without prejudice to the rights of the other consultant under this contract, consultant shall have the right to terminate this contract for any reason at any time in writing to the other Consultant.
If consultant exercises its rights to terminate this contract, the consultant shall immediately cease all services and shall return to WOREC any resources loaned by WOREC. All material prepared in advance shall be given to WOREC and may be invoiced for under the terms of this agreement.
In case the consultant does not follow the code of conduct of PSEA, the contract shall be terminated.
- Confidentiality
The consultant agrees not to discuss its performance of services or any confidential information to which the consultant may have access, as a result of this MOU with any third party without obtaining written consent from the organization.
- Risks and Challenges
It is important that the hired consultant has taken all reasonable measures to mitigate any potential risk to the delivery of the required outputs for this consultancy.
- Data Protection
The Consultant shall not disclose or allow access to any other personal data provided by WOREC or acquired by consultant during the course of performing the service other than to a person employed by the consultant or an approved sub-contractor with the prior consent of WOREC.
Any disclosure of or access to personal data allowed under above clause shall be made in confidence and shall extend only so far as that which is specifically necessary for the purpose of this contract.
If the Consultant fails to comply with any provision of this condition, then WOREC may summarily determine the contract by notice in writing provided always that such determination shall not prejudice or affect any right of action or remedy which shall have accrued or shall accrue thereafter to WOREC.
- Law
This contract and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Nepalese law and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Nepal.
- Application requirement:
- CV
- Copy of PAN
- Cover letter
- Sample of previous similar work.
- Application submission
Please email the submissions at admin@worecnepal.org by 4th Nov, 2026