Hiring of Technical and
Vocational Training Service Providers
(TSPs) / Accredited Institutes for Women Market-Driven Skills Development

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Legal registration and authorization to provide the proposed training services.
• Valid registration or accreditation with the relevant TVET authority, such as NAVTTC, KP-TEVTA or another recognized authority, where applicable to the trade and certification.
• At least three years of relevant experience in vocational training, preferably in community-based women's skills development, livelihoods or donor-funded projects.
• Experience working in Lower Chitral, Shangla or comparable rural and culturally conservative communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• Availability of qualified female trainers with relevant qualifications, trade expertise and practical teaching experience.
• Capacity to establish and manage village- or cluster-level training spaces and provide the necessary tools, consumables and logistics.
• Experience working with low-literacy participants, vulnerable households and/or persons with disabilities as an advantage.
• Ability to provide institutional references, evidence of completed assignments and CVs of proposed trainers and key staff.
• For food and dairy processing, demonstrated competence in hygiene, food safety and appropriate processing techniques.
• For digital and technical courses, access to the required equipment, software, connectivity and qualified trainers.

Proposal Submission Requirements:

Interested TSPs or institutes shall submit a technical and financial proposal containing:

1. Institutional name, legal status, address and contact information.
2. Registration/accreditation documents, NTN and relevant legal documentation.
3. Institutional profile and relevant training experience.
4. Evidence of comparable assignments, including location, trade, trainee numbers and results.
5. Proposed Union Councils, trades, batch sizes, training locations and indicative duration.
6. TNA methodology and approach to validating local market demand.
7. Proposed curricula, training calendar, practical/theory split and assessment methods.
8. A women-accessible and disability-inclusive training-centre plan.
9. Details of female trainers, qualifications, CVs and availability.
10. Equipment, tools, machinery, consumables and training-material requirements.
11. Safeguarding and inclusion arrangements.
12. Quality assurance, attendance, competency assessment and certification arrangements.
13. Proposed market-linkage and home-based enterprise support.
14. Implementation workplan, risk assessment and mitigation measures.
15. References and evidence of successful completion of previous assignments.
16. Trade-wise, location-wise itemized financial proposal, including trainer fees, venue, equipment, consumables, transport, certification, taxes and other costs.
17. Declaration of accuracy and acceptance of NIDA's applicable policies.