ToR - Practitioner Knowledge Mapping Across Priority Livelihood Value Chains

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Terms of Reference: Practitioner Knowledge Mapping Across Priority Livelihood Value Chains for Meghalaya and Southern Odisha

Title Practitioner Knowledge Mapping Across Priority Livelihood Value Chains Geography Meghalaya and 6 Southern Districts of Odisha(Kalahandi, Rayagada, Gajapati, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri) Duration 6 (Six)months Apply

https: //forms.gle/zdjS7RvFdDqx99s4A

Last dateto apply 21st November, 2026, 5 PM

About SELCO Foundation

SELCO Foundation’s mission is to create a platform of solutions that uses sustainable energy as a catalyst to bridge environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation. With holistic development as the primary focus, the organization strives to create equitable societies, where services are accessed by all communities. The interventions of SELCO lead to a sustainable delivery model of essential services like livelihoods, education, and health till the last mile. (Read more about SELCO here: http://www.selcofoundation.org/)

About this assignment

Under its Climate Responsive Livelihood (CRL) Programme, SELCO Foundation wants to learn from people who are already running successful livelihoods in Meghalaya + Southern Odisha. This assignment will document 200 champion farmers and practitioners across Eleven value chains: Rice, Turmeric, Honey, Piggery, Mushroom, Jackfruit, Pineapple, Bamboo, Food Processing, Fishery and Poultry, with 10-20 champions in each. For every champion, the selected agency will visit their farm or livelihood, interview them, record audio and video, take photographs, and write a case study that includes Package of Practices, Innovation and the economics of the livelihood: what it costs, what it earns and how the business runs.

Scope of work

• Identify the 100-200 champions (10-20 per value chain) jointly with the programme team. Champions can include successful entrepreneurs, progressive farmers, processors, FPOs, cooperatives, SHGs, traders and aggregators, technical experts, and technology innovators.
• Visit each champion’s farm, livelihood or processing unit and conduct an in-depth interview, with the participant’s informed consent.
• Record audio and video and take photographs at each visit.
• Write a case study for each champion covering their livelihood journey, production and processing methods, input sourcing, costs, revenue, market linkages, challenges and innovations. Each case study must include the economics and enabling conditions of the livelihood. (The goal is to ensure

the champion end users knowledge can be accessed by others aspiring to innovate and improve livelihoods in similar contexts/ sectors)

• Organize all recordings, photographs and case studies into one folder, with a simple index of the 100 champions and a short note on each champion’s relevance and key insights.
• Capture learnings and insights from the process and provide methodology to continue to scale the Champion voices capture to make the knowledge accessible for building further climate resilient livelihoods.

Roles

The selected agency will:

• Identify and select the 100-200 Champions jointly with the programme team
• Plan and conduct all fieldwork: interviews, site visits, audio-visual recording and photographs, with informed consent from every participant
• Develop the case study for each champion
• Maintain the organized folder and index with complete, quality-checked records
• Incorporate the programme team’s review feedback
• Field a team with the required research, documentation and local language skills

The programme team will:

• Support champion identification and facilitate introductions to communities and institutions
• Share programme documents and context needed for the assignment
• Review deliverables and provide consolidated feedback within agreed timelines
• Designate a point of contact for coordination and approvals

How to apply

• Interested consultants and organizations based in India, with relevant experience (please include samples or references of similar past work), should submit a proposal covering the approach, process, budget with break-ups and explanation, timelines and milestones through the Google Form: https://forms.gle/zdjS7RvFdDqx99s4A

For queries, write to procurement@selcofoundation.org with a subject line: “Practitioner Knowledge Mapping Across Priority Livelihood Value Chains for Meghalaya and Southern Odisha” To download the full ToR, click here: Practitioner Knowledge Mapping Across Priority Livelihood Value Chains for Meghalaya and Southern Odisha

Organisation: SELCO Foundation

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