Ashden Awards stakeholder consultation

February–March 2025 Consultancy brief and invitation to quote

Remuneration and Expenses

Terms and Conditions:

Remuneration: GBP 1,000 per country

The contractor shall be responsible for payment of relevant local taxes, social security and any mandatory insurances or pension contributions.  

Location: To be based in either Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone or Tanzania.

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the country they will be carrying out the work and will be asked to provide evidence. 

Expenses, such as in-country travel, honoraria for interviewees, as necessary. To be agreed in advance.

Ashden will not pay for air travel for this work.

About Ashden and the Ashden Awards

Climate innovators are poised to create a fairer, greener, zero carbon future. But they won’t succeed without smart policies, supportive finance and market reform.

Ashden’s mission is to showcase outstanding climate solutions, and to accelerate systemic change that unleashes their transformative potential.

For 25 years, the annual Ashden Awards have been at the heart of what we do. In the years ahead they will power work bringing affordable clean energy to villages and refugee camps, and nurture projects helping Indigenous communities defend and restore threatened forests.

Winners in sub-Saharan Africa, the UK and around the world receive grants, publicity and links to investors and other partners. They are also encouraged to take part in Ashden’s growing range of cohorts and programmes, which bring further support and opportunities.

About the project

Ashden would like to contract consultants to investigate and report on the views of the Ashden Awards in Sub-Saharan African. This means organisations working in one of the following areas:

• Universal energy access.

• Humanitarian energy access.

• Livelihood-based nature protection.

We want to hear from up to 15 stakeholders in each of the following countries:

• Kenya.

• Nigeria.

• Sierra Leone.

• Tanzania.

Scope

Objectives

Provide insights into:

• How we can best reach strong award applicants in the sector.

• What would make the awards accessible to strong applicants.

• What would make the application and judging process credible and transparent.

• The most valuable kinds of support Ashden could provide to winners through the awards and our programmes.

Timeline

Quotes for the work to be received by Sunday 16 February 2025.

• Contracts to be issued by Wednesday 19 February.

• Kick-off meeting with Ashden to be held on Thursday 20 February.

• Interviews, analysis and report to be completed by Wednesday 19 March 2025.

Locations

Please quote for work in one or more of the countries above.

Work and deliverables

• Review documents to be provided by Ashden: more information about the awards, our questions for the stakeholders, previous applicants and winners.

• Identify stakeholders / sources from Ashden’s existing contacts or your own, through desk research or iteratively from recommendations made by other stakeholders.

• Set up and conduct interviews face to face or remotely, as appropriate:

• 1–3 interviews with national trade and umbrella bodies, NGOs.

• 10–12 interviews with prospective applicants, applicants and winners.

• Draft and finalise report, including:

• Summary of people / organisations interviewed, anonymised where appropriate.

• Summary of themes and findings from the interviews, illustrated with quotes.

Skills and experience required

• Knowledge and experience in the sector(s) you are quoting for.

• In country contacts for the countries you are quoting for.

• Interviewing and communication skills.

• Interview analysis and report writing skills.

Invitation to quote

If you are interested in carrying out this work, please follow this link where we you will answer a couple of question, upload your CV and submit your quote.

If you have questions about the process and/or require reasonable adjustments, please email peopleteam@ashden.org