Consultancy Needed Supply Chain and Market Analysis Survey

Background

Save the Children Indonesia (SCIDN) is a nationally registered non-governmental organization and a Member of Save the Children International working to ensure every childs right to survival protection development and participation through a rights-based Indonesia Save the Childrens operations align with the Member Strategy with programmatic focus across education health and nutrition child protection humanitarian response youth and livelihoods and climate resilience. Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles are integrated across the full program cycle. SCIDN is also recognized for its strong capacity in Research Evaluation Accountability Learning and Monitoring (REALM) ensuring that interventions are evidence-driven accountable to affected populations and contribute to learning and policy influence.

Under the COAST Facility Save the Children Indonesia partners with Rare Indonesia to implement the project Oceans of Equity: Community-Led Coastal Conservation for Sustainable Fisheries and Food Systems. The project responds to the intersecting challenges of ecological degradation climate vulnerability livelihood insecurity and social exclusion faced by coastal communities in Indonesia. These challenges directly affect household wellbeing food security and childrens rights particularly in fishing-dependent and marginalized communities with differentiated impacts on women men youth and other socially excluded groups due to existing gender norms and power relations within households markets and governance systems.

Coastal and fisheries-dependent communities in Indonesia face increasing pressures from overfishing habitat degradation climate change and inequitable access to marine provinces such as West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) these environmental stresses intersect with persistent poverty limited livelihood diversification and gendered and social inequalities that constrain participation in decision-making control over productive assets and income and access to economic opportunities. Women youth and marginalized fishers are often underrepresented in coastal governance structures despite their central roles in fisheries value chains and household food systems. Women in particular play critical but often undervalued roles in post-harvest handling processing informal trading and household food security while having more limited access to assets finance market information and formal decision-making spaces.

The project aims to address these challenges by strengthening inclusive community-led marine resource management and promoting sustainable climate-resilient coastal livelihoods. Save the Childrens geographic focus within this partnership is NTB particularly coastal districts in Lombok and Sumbawa where ecological vulnerability poverty and social exclusion converge and where gender norms and unequal power relations continue to shape livelihood opportunities exposure to climate risks and resilience capacities.

The projects Framework is grounded in the understanding that sustainable and equitable coastal management depends on the meaningful participation of communities and the availability of inclusive context-specific evidence. When coastal communitiesparticularly women youth and marginalized groupsare equipped with reliable socio-economic and ecological information and are engaged in planning and decision-making processes and are supported to use this evidence to influence resource governance livelihood strategies and market engagement they are better positioned to protect marine resources and strengthen resilient livelihoods. Guided by this logic the project aims to strengthen community-led protection and management of marine resources while enhancing inclusive and climate-resilient coastal livelihoods with Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) at its core.

To contribute to this goal the project focuses on generating robust GEDSI-integrated evidence to inform spatial planning processes (RZWP3K) the identification of managed access and reserve areas and the development of community action plans for climate and disaster risk. During Phase 1 this is operationalized through site profiling activities including household surveys and related assessments that integrate tools such as the Womens Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and the 4Rs Framework (Recognition Respect Representation and Redistribution). These approaches are designed to capture diverse livelihood realities governance dynamics and vulnerabilities across different social groups and to support analysis of gendered roles access to resources decision-making power and benefit distribution across fisheries and non-fisheries value chains.

The project is implemented by Save the Children Indonesia (SCI) in partnership with Rare Indonesia under the COAST Facility with Rare Indonesia acting as the prime organization. SCI is directly responsible for the implementation of survey and assessment activities in Lombok West Nusa Tenggara and RARE Indonesia will leads in Southeast Sulawesi both are including supply chain and market analysis survey and livelihoods-integrated data collection and provides applied science and fisheries technical support across the partnership.

In Phase 1 supply chain and market analysis survey will serve as foundational inputs to inform the design of context-specific and inclusive fisheries and livelihood interventions in relation to understand the supply chain and market access for fisheries and non-fisheries such as agricultural products produced by small-scale fisheries in West Lombok district. Evidence generated through these assessments will be used to support Market System Development (MSD) of interventions that respond to local ecological social economic and governance contexts while avoiding the reinforcement of existing gender inequalities and where possible contributing to gender-transformative outcomes.

As part of Phase 1 (up to March 2026) of the ARUS project SCIDN seeks to engage 2 (two) external consultants to conduct a Supply Chain and Market Analysis Survey. The assignment will identify existing and potential coastal livelihoods map fisheries and non-fisheries supply chains and analyse market opportunities to inform inclusive climate-adaptive and economically viable livelihood strategies. The findings will provide evidence to support the design of livelihood diversification and market system development interventions in subsequent phases of the ARUS project ensuring alignment with the Managed Access with Reserves (MAR) a fisheries management approach and long-term sustainability of community-based fisheries management.

Purpose

The purpose of the Supply chain and market analysis survey in Phase 1 is to generate baseline evidence to inform the design of context-specific and inclusive fisheries and livelihood interventions in relation to understand the supply chain and market access for fisheries and non-fisheries such as agricultural products produced by small-scale fisheries in West Lombok district. Evidence generated through these assessments will be used to support Market System Development (MSD) of interventions that respond to local ecological social economic and governance contexts.

The analysis will explicitly examine how gender norms power relations and social barriers influence participation in access to and control over supply chains and markets in order to ensure that proposed livelihood and market system interventions do not reinforce existing inequalities and where possible contribute to gender-transformative change.

The assessment is designed to compellent and not duplicate existing Household-level survey with a primary focus on supply chain structure market dynamics and decision-relevant insight for programme design.