Call for Consultancy: Training of Milk Vendors on Appropriate Milk Handling and Business Management
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Call for Consultancy: Training of Milk Vendors on Appropriate Milk Handling and Business Management
- October 21, 2025
Start Date
Deadline for Applications:
Contact Email: [email protected]
Subject Line: “Consultancy – Training of Milk Vendors”
🔍 About the Assignment
ADRA Somalia is seeking a qualified consultant to provide specialized training to milk vendors in Las’anod market, Sool Region, as part of the SomReP-SIDA intervention to strengthen community resilience.
Background: The Somali Resilience Program (SomReP) aims to build household and community resilience against recurrent droughts and chronic vulnerability in pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities. The SIDA III Project, implemented by ADRA in Las’anod District, focuses on supporting inclusive, locally led development processes, improving livelihoods, and promoting institutional capacity-building. As part of enhancing local small-scale traders’ capacity, ADRA is focusing on milk vendors, who are a key group in the local ecosystem.
Objective of the Assignment
The main objective is to train a group of 30 milk vendors operating in Las’anod market on appropriate milk handling practices and business management.
Specific Tasks Include Training On
- Sources of Milk Contamination: Including the udder, milker, milking environment, equipment, and vessels used for storage and transportation.
- Milk Handling: Distinguishing between poor and good quality milk, using appropriate equipment, cleaning/sanitizing vessels, and carrying out basic quality tests.
- Legal Regulations: Observing regulations regarding hygienic handling of milk, use of appropriate equipment, and the absence of added water and antibiotic residues.
- Diseases and Consequences of poor milk handling.
- Dairy Business Management: Covering basic marketing, preparing a business plan, product marketing and distribution, customer care, and record keeping.
- Formation of a Business Group/Association.
The training methodology must be participatory and suitable for participants with little or no formal education, developing practical, action-oriented solutions.
Expected Duration and Location:
- Duration: 7 days in November 2025 (4 days for training in Las’anod).
- Location: Las’anod, Sool Region, Somalia
- A qualified consultant with a background in food handling.
- Experience in training nomadic communities and people with low or no academic qualifications
Deadline for Applications: Please click here to refer to the full ToR for the specific application deadline.
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ADRA is a global humanitarian organization that delivers relief and development assistance to individuals in more than 130 countries—regardless of their ethnicity, political affiliation, gender, or religious association.
By partnering with local communities, organizations, and governments, we are able to deliver culturally relevant programs and build local capability for sustainable change.
ADRA Somali belongs to the worldwide ADRA network, comprised of more than of 130 supporting and implementing country offices. ADRA has been operating in Somalia since 1992 implementing emergency relief and development interventions in different sectors. ADRA Somali’s work is anchored on a programming approach that recognises the essence of the communities taking leadership in their own development. Interventions by ADRA Somali do not relegate the communities to be mere recipients of aid, but significant partners in formulation and execution of strategies that address their needs, therefore, attaining sustainable positive change in their lives through development and relief initiatives.
ADRA Somali has partnered with several development agencies, government ministries and departments and educational and research institutes to deliver development programmes to communities throughout the country. We view collaboration as a cost-effective and time saving means for implementing projects impact. Through our strategy, we envision empowering communities and changing their lives.