Call for proposal for qualified consulting firms/Individual on Drafting Directive for Cooperative Acts and Regulations 

Heifer Overview:  Heiferis a non-profit and humanitarian organization dedicated to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. 

Heifer’s history in Nepal can be traced back to 1957, when Heifer International sent shipments of cattle, pigs, sheep and parent stock of poultry at the government’s request in order to introduce high-yielding livestock into the native animal population. Baruwa Goat Raising Project in 1993 in Gita Nagar, Chitwan was the first Heifer project in Nepal that benefited a group of 25 women. Since then HPIN has worked in more than 43 districts in collaboration with more than 100 local NGOs along with government agencies, civil society, private sector, and academia improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of families. 

By the year 2023 Heifer envisions to bring 500000 families from a state of poverty and vulnerability to sustainability and resilience by improving their income, livelihood and food and nutrition security through their engagement in competitive, sustainable, and inclusive goat and dairy value chain enterprises. 

Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative in Province 5 is one of the key stakeholders of various Heifer projects in the region. The ministry has prepared its Cooperative Acts and Regulations which have provision for innovative forms of federations such as the Specialized Cooperative Federation that can independently run an enterprise. However, the ministry is yet to prepare Bylaws and Operating Guidelines which will pave way for formation of such enterprise centric federal bodies. 

Heifer is seeking a qualified consultant for studying Cooperative Acts and Regulations and providing recommendations for drafting appropriate Bylaws and Operating Guidelines for formation of Specialized Cooperative Federation in Province-5. 

Scope of work

• Review the existing Federal and Provincial Acts and Regulations on formation of cooperatives and their federations. 
• Collaborate with provincial government officials to understand their perspective and need for development of the Bylaws and Operating Guidelines. 
• Draft Bylaws and Operating guidelines to be recommended for the ministry’s pursual.

• Specialization in Cooperative law is preferred. 

• Bachelor’s in law or other social sciences with at least 5 years’ experience working on design and implementation of policy is required.
• Master’s degree in law or other social sciences with working experience with the government of Nepal preferred.