Call for External Collaborator – Provincial consultant to support MSME loan readiness, local bank linkages and enterprise follow-up under the EWPN programme – Sudurpaschim Province. Please access further details through the ILO e-Sourcing Platform.

The International Labour Office is seeking an External Collaborator to serve as a Provincial Consultant in Nepal's Sudurpaschim Province under the EWPN programme. The primary objective of this role is to support MSME loan readiness and facilitate linkages between local enterprises and banking financial institutions. The consultant will be responsible for following up with the September–October 2026 access-to-finance training cohort to assess financing needs, review business plans and loan documentation, and provide practical support to ensure application files are lender-ready. Additional duties include screening eligible enterprises, facilitating referrals to local BFI and DCGF offices, managing logistics for a provincial follow-up engagement, and maintaining a detailed enterprise tracker for the Team Lead and Financial and BFI Engagement Expert. This solicitation, identified as rfx_13988_ROAP, requires the consultant to coordinate with ILO and national access-to-finance consultants, though the scope specifically excludes the January 2027 national results dissemination workshop in Kathmandu. Interested parties must submit their proposals through the ILO e-Sourcing platform, providing both a Qualification Response and a Commercial Response. The process is structured as a call for an external collaborator, which is technically assimilated to a Request for Quotation. All submissions must be completed electronically via the designated portal before the specified deadline.