Individual Consultant for development and roll-out support of ILO Improve Your Business

The ILO's M4I programme is supporting the development of inclusive labour market systems for refugees and vulnerable host communities in Kenya. In Kenya, M4I mainly targets the beauty and construction sectors within urban labour markets, including Nairobi, Mombasa, and Nakuru. Many urban refugees and other vulnerable workers are already active in the beauty and construction sectors, but often remain trapped in informal, low-income markets due to legal, social and geographic barriers.M4I aims to create commercially viable pathways for labour market participation through collaboration with digital labour platforms, private sector, sector associations, BDS providers, and refugee-serving organisations.M4I aims to go beyond traditional direct-delivery livelihoods approaches by enhancing inclusive market systems and creating commercially viable labourmarket pathways. The adaptation of the IYB is part of a larger effort to improve workforce readiness, service quality, entrepreneurship skills, and sustainable participation within evolving urban labour markets.The ILO’s SIYB programme is one of the world’s largest entrepreneurship and business management training initiatives globally. The Improve Your Business (IYB) component helps both existing and aspiring entrepreneurs strengthen practical business management systems through modular, participatory learning. The M4I intends to utilise and adapt the IYB to support refugees and vulnerable host community engaged in beauty and personal care services, construction and artisan work, platform-based labour markets, self-employment and other urban income-generation pathways linked to programme-supported market actors.Recognising the operational realities of platform economies and urban service markets, the programme requires context-specific adaptation of the IYB methodology to align with digital labour platform requirements and onboarding systems, customer...