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Consultant for the Development of Recyclables Platform (Web-Based MVP)

with CARE Cambodia
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Expected Outputs

Consultant for the Development of Recyclables Platform (Web-Based MVP)

Announcement Description

CARE is an international development organization fighting global poverty with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring sustainable changes their communities. CARE aims to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice and to bring lasting change to the lives of poor and vulnerable people. Founded in 1945, today CARE works in over 100 countries around the globe and supporting approximately 1,500 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects to reach more than 92 million people directly and 433 million people indirectly. CARE works with partners to achieve lasting results for marginalised communities.

CARE has been working with Cambodians since 1973, with an office in Phnom Penh since 1991. Today, CARE focuses on empowering particularly marginalised and vulnerable women in Cambodia, including urban women who are marginalised by occupation, rural women who are denied multiple rights, and women and girls form ethnic minorities. Each year CARE Cambodia implements around 10 projects, reaching approximately 250,000 direct participants and about 500,000 people are reached indirectly.

Expected Outputs

Consultant for the Development of Recyclables Platform (Web-Based MVP)

  • Career Category: Consultancies
  • Location: Phnom Penh
Summary

Objectives include:

Overall objective is to develop a web-based digital platform for gender responsive profitable and sustainable waste management including improve income stability for informal waste collectors particularly women and all people of genders, enables household participation in quality recycling, enhances fair market linkages with small depots, and generates reliable diversion data for program management and local authorities through gender responsive approach.

Specific Objectives:

  1. Increase transparency and trust in recyclables collection through daily price visibility and digital proof of collection.
  2. Improve edjai income stability and quality via clear pricing, logs, earnings history, and performance-based points and providing sex and age disaggregated data.
  3. Enable households/vendors to participate easily (request pickup, receive confirmation, earn points, view history/impact).
  4. Support small depots to access more reliable pre-sorted supply and communicate fair prices.
  5. Provide CARE/partners and local authorities with simple diversion (including sex and age disaggregated) data for program management and reporting.
  6. Ensure the solution is simple, low-risk, offline-tolerant, Khmer-first, and operationally sustainable.

Scope of Work:

Deliver a website (mobile-first, no app) focused on minimum viable product (MVP) essentials. No payments processed (cash-based transaction only). Households pre-registered with unique digital ID + QR. The vendor will design, build, test, deploy, and hand over a single responsive web application (mobile-first). The platform must be accessible via a shareable URL, with no app download required.

Core MVP features:

  • Public / Guest (no login required)
  • Household Digital ID, Pickup Request, and Incentives
  • Edjai Collection Logging (core workflow)
  • Admin (CARE) Dashboard
  • SMS Integration (MVP)
  • Offline / Low-connectivity Support
  • Languages and Accessibility
  • Optional Features (Nice-to-have)

Please click the Attachment below for more information.

Eligibility

  • Essential Qualifications
  • 3+ years web/mobile development experience
  • 2+ completed projects with similar complexity (marketplaces, logistics, or community platforms)
  • Proven experience in:
  • SMS gateway integration
  • Offline-first web architecture
  • Role-based admin systems
  • Secure hosting and deployment
  • User-frindly design for low-literacy users
  • Preferred
  • Experience in Cambodia or Southeast Asia
  • Khmer language capability
  • Experience working with NGOs/social impact platforms
  • Familiarity with informal economy or waste management systems

Submission Requirements

Submission of Proposals: Interested agencies should submit their proposals via email provided in the contact details.

The consultancy application should be included:

  1. Technical Proposal (methodology, architecture, workplan)
  2. Financial Proposal (detailed budget breakdown)
  3. Company profile and CVs

Submission Deadline: 26 March 2026

Start Date: Early April 2026; Target Launch: Mid May 2026

Selection Process:

The selection process will include a review of all submitted applications, interviews with shortlisted agencies, and reference checks. The agency that best demonstrates its ability to meet the primary objective of this consultancy (within the proposed timeframe) with most relevant qualification and experience will be selected.

For any inquiries or additional information, please contact Senior Procurement Officer via email.

CARE is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, including women, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities and members of other marginalized groups. CARE International in Cambodia is committed to protecting the rights of children. CARE International in Cambodia reserves the right to conduct screening procedures to ensure a child safe environment.

CARE places human dignity at the centre of its relief and development work. At the heart of CARE’s efforts to impact poverty and social justice is its engagement with marginalized communities, and vulnerable adults and children. Vulnerable adults and children are particularly at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse. CARE commits to the protection from sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse (PSHEA) of vulnerable adults, involving CARE Employees and Related Personnel. CARE has a zero tolerance toward sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse. CARE takes seriously all concerns and complaints about sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse involving CARE Employees and Related Personnel.

Attachment:
  • ToR - Recyclable PlatformV2
  • ENG_PlasticSmart Cambodia
 

Contact Details

Office Address
  • #39 (3rd floor) Street 352, Sangkat Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Khan Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
 
Contact Name
  • CARE Cambodia
 
Email
 
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