Somaliland National Youth Organizations (SONYO Umbrella) is a national, non-governmental, nonprofit, nonpartisan youth umbrella organization established on 5 June 2003. It brings together 56 member youth organizations across Somaliland and works to coordinate and represent youth priorities in engagement with government institutions, development partners, civil society, and the private sector.

SONYO is inviting proposals from qualified individual consultants and consulting firms to conduct an Institutional Capacity Assessment and develop a costed three-year Capacity Development Plan. The assignment aims to identify institutional strengths, operational challenges, capacity gaps, and priority reforms to strengthen SONYO’s governance, organizational systems, programme delivery, accountability, and long-term sustainability.

Applicants should review the full Request for Proposals (RFP) document carefully to understand the complete scope of work, technical requirements, evaluation criteria, expected deliverables, and submission procedures.

Key Responsibilities / Programme Activities

The selected consultant or consulting firm will be expected to undertake the following activities:

• Governance and organizational assessment: Review governance structures, leadership, strategic management, organizational structure, human resource systems, staff competencies, and performance management.
• Institutional and operational systems: Evaluate administrative procedures, financial management, procurement, information management, data protection, internal controls, and organizational accountability.
• Programme management and technical capacity: Assess programme design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) across SONYO’s thematic areas, including advocacy and civic engagement, livelihoods, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), youth participation, and climate resilience.
• Stakeholder engagement and membership support: Examine partnerships, stakeholder relations, resource mobilization, communications, organizational visibility, and coordination and accountability mechanisms for member organizations.
• Safeguarding and risk management: Assess safeguarding, inclusion, compliance, and institutional, operational, and reputational risks, and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
• Capacity development planning: Prepare a practical, costed three-year Capacity Development Plan with prioritized and sequenced interventions, timelines, responsible parties, measurable indicators, estimated resource requirements, and implementation arrangements.

The overall objective is to provide SONYO with actionable recommendations and a structured roadmap for strengthening its institutional effectiveness and ability to deliver on its strategic mandate.

Eligibility Requirements

Applications are open to:

• Qualified individual consultants.
• Qualified consulting firms.

Applicants should review the complete RFP document for detailed technical and professional qualifications, experience requirements, proposal evaluation criteria, and any additional eligibility conditions.

The selected consultant or firm must comply with SONYO’s requirements relating to confidentiality, safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), data protection, conflicts of interest, and professional conduct.

All information accessed during the assignment must remain confidential and be used solely for the purposes of the consultancy. Reports, tools, datasets, and other materials produced under the contract will become the property of SONYO Umbrella, subject to the final contract.

Benefits and Support

This is a consultancy opportunity to undertake an institutional assessment and prepare a costed capacity development plan for a national youth umbrella organization.

• The assignment offers an opportunity to contribute to organizational strengthening and youth-sector development in Somaliland.
• The consultant or firm will produce assessment findings and a practical three-year capacity development roadmap.
• Payment will be linked to accepted deliverables, with the terms specified in the consultancy contract.

The total consultancy budget, contract value, and payment schedule are not provided in the supplied advertisement. Interested applicants should consult the complete RFP document for further details.

Application Process

Interested individual consultants and consulting firms must submit two separate PDF documents:

1. Technical proposal.
2. Financial proposal.

Email both documents to:

procurement@sonyo.org

Use the following email subject line:

SONYO ICA 2026 Proposal – [Applicant’s Name]

Submission deadline: 12 November 2026, at 5:00 PM East Africa Time (UTC+3), according to the submission instructions in the advertisement.

Clarification requests must be submitted to procurement@sonyo.org no later than 4 November 2026, at 5:00 PM EAT (UTC+3). Responses that materially affect the competition will be shared with prospective applicants through the same advertisement channel without identifying the applicant who raised the question.

Late, incomplete, or improperly submitted proposals may be rejected.

Full RFP document: SONYO_Final_RFP_2026 1.docx, available as an attachment to the original SomaliJobs advertisement.

Official submission contact: procurement@sonyo.org

Important: The SomaliJobs listing displays 12 November 2026 as the expiry date, while its submission instructions specify 11 November 2026 as the deadline. Applicants should confirm the correct closing date with SONYO before submission and, as a precaution, submit by 11 November 2026 at 5:00 PM EAT.