Nepal mission capitalization on environment and health projects from 2017 to 2025

1.Background

Founded in 1980, Médecins du Monde France (MdM-F) is a campaigning medical organisation that strives for international solidarity. Through actions and the law, through our field work and advocacy, we fight tirelessly to defend a fair and universal healthcare system in France and some thirty other countries around the world. We are committed to caring for the most vulnerable populations, bearing witness to abuses in access to healthcare, denouncing infringements of dignity and human rights, and obtaining sustainable improvements in health policies for all.

Environment and Health (EH) is one of the 6 thematics (political battles) prioritized by the organization and has been implemented through projects in Nepal since 2017.

The projects were engaged in improving the health and wellbeing of marginalized communities, particularly informal waste workers and farmers, through multiple initiatives with a strong partnership approach.

All the EH projects in Nepal are ending and it’s important to keep track of what was done during the 8 past years of project implementation in EH and a Nepal mission capitalization on EH projects from 2017 to 2025 was decided.

BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT

MdM-F implemented its Environment and Health approach in Nepal since 2017. First, with the project “Healthy Waste Workers in Kathmandu Valley” implemented in August 2017 to December 2019 that aimed to improve the health status of informal waste workers in Kathmandu Valley and Sisdole landfill site, mitigating their occupational risks and environmental exposure, improving access to information and increasing access to health services. Then from October 2020 to July 2024, the project “Healthy Waste Workers for Sustainable Waste Management” was implementend in Kathmandou. In September 2020, MdM-F opened a project in Nepalgunj to support informal Waste Workers. This project was extended to a second phase, named “Supporting Environmental Health and Occupational Health in Banke”, that included activities on farmers health and their working conditions. The last project to be developped under EH thematic in Nepal was a project on pesticide misuse and its health consequences in Kavrepalanchowk, Ramechhap, and Sindhupalchowk districts. In this project, MdM-F focused on health risk mitigation for farmers, awareness of pesticide-related health issues, and integrated occupational health and safety (OHS) issues through strengthening and supporting government health facilities.

On the one hand, all these projects were very important for the EH thematic, as it allowed to diversify and scale up EH projects within MdM-F, and disseminate them to another country, as initially, EH projects were mainly implemented in the Philippines. On the other hand, the EH projects in Nepal contributed to change and improve the global EH approach within MdM-F.

2.Definition of the consultancy mission

Objective

In the context of this project, MdM-F is looking for a consultant or a consultancy team to carry out the Nepal mission capitalization on Environment and Health projects from 2017 to 2025, with the following general objective: to identify, document and formalize key lessons learned and success stories from the EH projects in MdM Nepal mission from 2017 to 2025.

And the specific objectives would be :

- To create an institutional memory of the Nepal mission: to describe the key steps of the different projects under the EH thematic in Nepal and the main rational under the choices made related to the assessment of the context and needs.

- To describe how the EH projects were implemented: operational modalities in EH projects including empowerment process.

- To document the implementation of EH in the projects and what were the lessons learned from them for the EH thematic.

3.Profile sought

We are looking for a consultant or a team of consultants to:

- Provide methodological support to identify and formalize the capitalization.

- Conduct the document review and data collection for capitalization: review and use the key documents of the mission to feed the capitalization, interviews and meetings with key stakeholders (MdM staff current and past at Nepal mission and headquarters when related to Nepal mission or EH, partners, CSOs the projects worked with, beneficiaries).

- Formalize the capitalization into a report with a summary, high quality pictures, graphic facilitation or any other media that can facilitate the dissemination and appropriation.

The skills required for the mission are:

• University degree in public health, social sciences, or a related field.
• Proven experience of country program capitalization work (at least 3 capitalization work).
• Proven experience in qualitative data collection, analysis, and reporting in the field of public health or community development (at least 5 five years of experience).
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to translate research findings into actionable recommendations.
• Experience working in the humanitarian sector and especially with marginalized communities in right based approaches.
• Values aligned with MdM’s core values.
• Fluency in English and in Nepalese.

4.Indicative timetable

Deadline for an expression of interest: Thursday 29th of January 2026 6pm CET

Preselection of 3 applicants, information and communication of the ToRs to this 3 applicants : Tuesday 3rd of February 2026

Deadline for submission of full proposal (technical and financial) by the 3 applicants: Wednesday 18th of February 2026

Selection of the consultant : Monday 23th of February 2026

Preferred mission launch date : Monday 2nd of March 2026

Preferred final report and documents delivery date: Tuesday 30th of June 2026

This timetable is for information only and subject to modification.

5.Detailed application methods

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED

Service providers wishing to express their interest are invited to submit the following elements:

1. Up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) of a maximum of 3 pages for each member of the proposed team and stating as applicable the consultancy firm to which each team member belongs.
2. A letter of interest of a maximum of three (3) pages, indicating: experience of comparable missions, at least two (2) credentials concerning the performance of comparable contracts, dates of availability for the consultancy process, etc.
3. Samples of previous comparable work, relevant to the objective of the mission.

The expression of interest will be considered complete if it includes the mentioned elements. It must be sent via email to: <doi.applications@medecinsdumonde.net> with the subject line “Nepal mission capitalization on Environment and Health projects”. Expressions of interest submitted in any other manner will not be taken into consideration.

The deadline for submitting an expression of interest is Thursday 29th of January 2026 6pm CET

A maximum of six (6) candidates will be shortlisted and invited to submit a complete technical and budget proposal in response to the terms of reference to be provided to them.

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS

All information obtained in the context of this expression of interest is the subject of IT processing aimed at creating and archiving a professional file for each application received and for the purpose of any potential audit of our internal procedures. The data collected is sent to: Direction Santé Plaidoyer de MdM-F. In accordance with the French and EU legislation in force, you have the right to access and amend any information relating to you and you can exercise this right by emailing < dsp@medecinsdumonde.net > or writing to Médecins du Monde France, Direction Santé Plaidoyer, 84 avenue du Président Wilson 93210 Saint-Denis. You may also object to the processing of your data on legitimate grounds.

In order to be authorised to apply, bidders must be able to establish, at the discretion of MdM, that they meet the legal, technical and financial conditions applicable and that they have the necessary capacity and sufficient resources to carry out the mission.

How to apply

The expression of interest must be sent via email to: <doi.applications@medecinsdumonde.net> with the subject line “Nepal mission capitalization on Environment and Health projects”.