Procurement number: CS-SUNN/2026 - 10/001
Date of Committee Review: 29th October 2026
Proposed Date of Workshop: 4th - 6th November 2026
Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a multi-stakeholder civil society alliance advancing food and nutrition security through policy advocacy, accountability, systems strengthening, capacity development, and citizen engagement. CS-SUNN intends to convene a practical three-day workshop for its Board of Trustees (7), Steering Committee (8), and National Secretariat Management (7).
The workshop will establish a shared institutional view, clarify mandates and decision rights, strengthen strategic and fiduciary oversight, improve the governance-management interface, and produce time-bound governance actions. It is a facilitated learning and application process, not a substitute for a full independent organisational, financial or programme evaluation.
CS-SUNN seeks an independent corporate organization, firm/agency, or facilitation team to prepare, design, and deliver the workshop; consolidate its governance tools and decisions; and facilitate a subsequent implementation review. The approach should combine concise expert input with substantial application to CS-SUNN's circumstances.
- Provide a shared understanding of CS-SUNN's vision, mandate and strategic priorities.
- Clarify mandates, fiduciary duties, authority limits and accountabilities of the three leadership groups.
- Distinguish governance, strategic oversight and management responsibilities, including reserved, delegated, consulted and reported matters.
- Strengthening oversight of strategy, performance, finance, risk, safeguarding, ethics and sustainability.
- Identify governance strengths, gaps, risks and opportunities.
- Agree practical recommendations and a prioritised 90-day and 12-month Governance Improvement Plan with owners, milestones and review arrangements.
- Leadership briefing to confirm scope, participants, confidentiality, decision authority and outputs.
- Inception note, workplan, document request list and final agenda.
- Confidential pre-workshop questionnaire and anonymised synthesis.
- Focused review of governance, strategy, performance, financial, risk and compliance documents.
- Tailored cases, tools, participant materials and evaluation instruments.
- Facilitate all three days using approximately 30 percent expert input and 70 percent applied learning.
- Use plenary dialogue, group work, case simulation, mandate and decision mapping, peer exchange, reflection and action planning.
- Manage time, participation, sensitive discussion and psychological safety.
- Close each day with a structured reflection and decision log; assign unresolved matters for further work rather than force premature agreement.
- Consolidate decisions, commitments, unresolved matters and evaluation findings.
- Finalise the decision-rights matrix, governance calendar, dashboard requirements and Governance Improvement Plan.
- Facilitate an implementation review approximately 90 days after the workshop.
- Deliverable
- Minimum content
- 1. Inception package
- Inception note, workplan, final agenda, document request and confirmed facilitation approach.
- 2. Diagnostic package
- Questionnaire, anonymised governance snapshot and baseline synthesis.
- 3. Workshop package
- Participant workbook and/or slides, cases, practical tools and evaluation instruments.
- 4. Applied governance outputs
- Mandate and decision-rights matrix, governance calendar, dashboard requirements and 90-day/12-month improvement plan.
- 5. Final workshop report
- Decisions, commitments, unresolved issues, evaluation results and recommended follow-up actions.
- 6. Follow-up review note
- Implementation status, evidence, barriers and agreed corrective actions following the 90-day review.
Proposed Facilitation Team
We propose a three-person core team to provide senior governance leadership, strong group-process support, and focused technical expertise. Bidders may combine the co-facilitation and documentation functions if capacity is demonstrated. Any alternative configuration must show full coverage without weakening participation, documentation or technical quality.
- Role
- Core responsibilities
- Minimum profile
- Lead Governance Facilitator / Team Lead
- Overall design; document synthesis; core facilitation; sensitive dialogue; decision synthesis; quality assurance; final accountability.
- Senior nonprofit governance and board-development specialist with strong adult-learning and strategic leadership facilitation experience.
- Co-Facilitator and Learning/Documentation Specialist
- Group exercises; participation support; decision and action capture; learning assessment; evaluation; drafting of tools and report.
- Demonstrated participatory facilitation, learning evaluation, documentation and action-tracking experience.
- Technical Legal Resource Person - Governance, Legal Compliance and Institutional Risk
- Provide expert legal guidance on nonprofit governance, statutory and regulatory compliance, fiduciary duties of Board members, conflict-of-interest management, ethics, accountability, and institutional risk. Review relevant provisions of the CS-SUNN's Constitution and Governing Manual and recommend amendments to strengthen governance, clarify roles and decision-making authority, and ensure consistency with applicable laws and regulations.
- A qualified legal practitioner with an LL.B. and a current licence to practise law in Nigeria, with at least 7 years of relevant post-call experience, including demonstrated experience in nonprofit governance, corporate or institutional compliance, constitutional and policy review, and legal advisory services.
- Master's degree in governance, public administration, management, organisational development, law, development studies, business administration, social sciences or a related field.
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, with substantial work in governance, institutional strengthening, strategic leadership, organisational development or board effectiveness.
- Demonstrated nonprofit governance, board development, organisational strategy and governance-management interface expertise.
- Experience facilitating senior boards, committees and management teams in civil society, nonprofit or multi-stakeholder settings.
- Knowledge of fiduciary oversight, finance, risk, ethics, safeguarding, sustainability and performance governance.
- Advanced adult-learning, participatory facilitation, conflict-management, consensus-building, analytical writing and discretion.
- Relevant certification and Nigerian civil society/development-sector experience are advantages.
- Co-Facilitator: relevant postgraduate/professional qualification and evidence of senior workshop support, evaluation, action capture and concise reporting.
- Technical Resource Person: relevant advanced academic/professional qualification and practical advisory experience in the technical area.
- All members must demonstrate confidentiality, independence, inclusive practice and ability to work with senior governance actors.
- Technical proposal demonstrating understanding and a practical methodology.
- Team composition, role allocation, availability and level of effort, with the Team Lead clearly identified.
- CVs highlighting directly relevant assignments.
- Evidence of at least three comparable assignments and client/reference details were available.
- One or two suitably redacted samples of relevant governance/facilitation outputs.
- Financial proposal separating professional fees, reimbursable costs and applicable taxes.
- Disclosure of actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
Suggested Evaluation Criteria
- Criterion
- Weight
- Understanding and methodology
- 25%
- Team Lead qualifications and relevant experience
- 30%
- Complementary team composition and deployment
- 20%
- Comparable past performance and work samples
- 15%
- Financial proposal and value for money
- 10%
Clarification contact/deadline: sokoronkwo@cs-sunn.org