Engagement of a Facilitation Team for a Three-day Governance and Strategic Leadership Workshop at Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN)

Procurement number: CS-SUNN/2026 – 10/001

Date of Committee Review: 29th October 2026

Proposed Date of Workshop: 4th – 6th November 2026

Location: Abuja

Background

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.

Purpose

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.

Objectives

• 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.

Scope of Work

Preparation

• 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.

Workshop delivery

• 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.

Reporting and follow-up

• 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.

Deliverables

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.

Qualifications

Team Lead

• 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.

Other team members

• 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.

Application Requirements

• 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

Clarification contact/deadline: [email protected]