Blind Youth Association is an organization establish by the Blind and Partially Sighted Youth of Nepal. With the vision of ‘BPS people of Nepal enjoying dignified life in an inclusive society’ BYAN is currently working in the area of policy advocacy, education, employment disaster risk reduction, political participation and SRHR of persons with disabilities in general and BPS in particular.  Blind Youth Association Nepal (BYAN) is a right based organization established to advocate and promote the rights of blind and partially sighted youth that are scattered across the country of Nepal.

In Partnership with IFES Nepal,  BYAN conducted election observation disability access on a 20 November 2022 election day to find out the real situation and facts of Person with Disabilities access on election in Nepal and produced a  tentatively 40 pages report name “ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN GENERAL ELECTION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND PROVINCE ASSEMBLY “  on the based of observations’ findings.  BYAN announces the call for Expression of Interest (EOI) from the experienced and qualified experts to translate report from English language to Nepali language. Interested and Eligible individual or organization are invited to submit EOI in the following address mentioning “Expression of Interest to translate election access observation report in Nepali language” in the subject line in the following Address: [email protected]

Eligibility to submit the EOI ;

• EOI can be submitted by a company or individual having the potential eligibility.
• Company must be registered in Nepal and person must be Nepali citizen in case of individual.
• Consultant should have an excellent command on Nepali language as well as good knowledge on the subject of disability and election.
• Company and Individual consultant shall provide at least 1 details of similar assignment experience, in the previous 3 years.

Required Documents need to submit by company:

• Interest Letter
• Quotation of consulting fee
• The document should have annexed bio-data of the assignment team member/s.
• Firm Registration & Renewal certificate
• Copy of VAT Registration Certificate
• Latest Tax clearance certificate

Required Documents need to submit by Individual:

• Interest Letter
• Quotation of consulting fee
• The proposal should have annexed bio-data of the assignment team member/s.
• Copy of Nepali citizenship and PAN

Selection criteria

• BYAN will select the consultant based on their experience and amount proposed for the task.
• Working experience and knowledge in disability and election observation will be an advantage.
• Date of call for the EOI: 2 April , 2023
• Deadline for the Submission of EOI: 5 pm, 7th April , 2023. (Nepali Standard Time)

BYAN reserves the right to select or not to select any of the application. BYAN keeps safeguarding as a top priority so, any data or information collected during the task shall be kept confidential and shall not be disseminated without BYAN’s prior consent.