Provision of Technical Assistance, Mentoring, and Coaching Services Tender, Palestine - 51090281

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Country : Palestine

Summary : Provision of Technical Assistance, Mentoring, and Coaching Services

Deadline : 18 Mar 2021

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Tenders are invited for Provision of Technical Assistance, Mentoring, and Coaching Services.

Terms of Reference (ToR) for provision of technical assistance, mentoring, and coaching services

1. MA-AN Development Center

MA-AN Development Center is an independent Palestinian development and training institution established in January 1989 and registered as a non-profit organization. The main office is located in Ramallah with branch offices in Gaza, and Jenin. MA-AN`s work is informed by the necessity of creating independent, self-reliant initiatives that lead to the development of human resources for sustainable development, which incorporate values of self-sufficiency and self-empowerment.

2. Project profile

Project name Women and Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - She Succeeds
Project strategic objective Enhance economic empowerment and increase prosperity for low-income female youth in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Locations Gaza Strip, Jordan Valley, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem and Jenin

Targeted beneficiaries Low-income female youth in WB and Gaza Strip, ages 15-29

3. Project background

The Women and Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Employment in West Bank and Gaza (She Succeeds)is funded by Global Affairs of Canada (GAC), and implemented by Save the Children (SC) in partnership with MAAN Development Center and PARC. She Succeedsis a four-year project in the West Bank (Jordan Valley, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem and Jenin) and Gaza Strip to empower female youth entrepreneurs (15-29) in the agricultural sector.

This project will aim to reduce barriers to entrepreneurship faced by female youth in the agriculture sector by responding to and addressing the key gender-based cognitive, economic, and social and institutional barriers that hinder female youth-s agency and entrepreneurship opportunities. In order to achieve this, the project was designed using a comprehensive youth economic empowerment framework which includes three pillars:

The first pillar (She Learns) will focus on addressing the cognitive barriers faced by female youth, such as the lack of relevant skills and knowledge for entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. This will include strengthening, and where needed establishing, local gender-sensitive training platforms for female youth on employability, entrepreneurship and green agri-based continuing education and vocational training. Blended training models will be available using interfaces relevant for female youth.

The second pillar (She Connects) will increase access to entrepreneurial extension services and market
linkages, and increase access and control of financial resources for female youth. Activities include the
establishment and/or strengthening of entrepreneurship incubator facilities and female youth-led
cooperatives; gender-matched mentorships; and market facilitation activities to link female
entrepreneurs to suppliers and buyers and promote inter-trading among cooperatives and vertical
integration in identified value chains. In addition, the initiative will strengthen financial linkages for
female youth-s access to start-up capital, including partnerships with women-led cooperatives for
financial networking; enhancing existing agriculture seed funding mechanisms to be gender-sensitive
and accessible to female youth; and establishing cooperation agreements with local financial institutions
for formal credit mechanisms.
The last pillar (She Leads) will increase awareness and engagement of key stakeholders in relation to
female youth-s economic empowerment, where youth, particularly female youth, will be enabled to
determine and address key social, institutional and economic barriers that impede the advancement of
female youth in entrepreneurship. This includes establishing Community Gender Equality Champions;
youth-led gender-sensitive social behavior change communication activities and advocacy campaigns;
and gender-sensitivity trainings and partnerships with Chambers of Commerce and Local Employment
(LET) Councils.
Youth participation and partnerships cut across the three pillars, where female youth are actively
engaged through youth-led research, advocacy and communications, youth advisory boards at the
community-level and overall project governance. The project design also involves the establishment of
local partnerships at the community level including local women-s cooperatives, microfinance
institutions, Chambers of Commerce, LET Councils, and universities. Moreover, the program design is
framed around the promotion of gender equality - where all components are designed to be gender
transformative to achieve sustainable economic empowerment for female youth.
4. Assessments to be used in the development of the campaign
The contractor is expected to build on a detailed plan developed to lead activities in the field of social
and societal change in the areas of Gender Equity and Female Entrepreneurship. The plan will be
provided to the contractor before embarking on this assignment.
5. Scope of work
The contractor is expected to deliver Technical Assistance and Active Support, Mentoring, and
Coachingin ONE or MORE of the following topics to ONE or MORE female entrepreneurs:
1. Business plan development,
2. Business development,
3. Financial management and feasibility,
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4. Market development,
5. Marketing and promotion,
6. Social media sales and marketing,
7. Product development and packaging,
8. Food production and processing,
9. Dairy production,
10. Procurement documents and BoQ-s preparations,
11. Web and mobile application development,
12. Online education,
13. Agricultural engineering,
The delivery of the technical assistance, mentoring, and coaching is expected to take place virtually over
Zoom platform, and in-person (Face-to-Face) sessions that might be arranged, jointly with all the groups
or one-on-one with each group at a time.
This contract is a level of effort, task-based contract. MA-AN, the contractor, and the beneficiary
entrepreneurs will agree on the level of effort needed per task.
6. Contractor-s qualifications
The contractor should possess, and is able to demonstrate progressive prior work experience in the
technical areas above, AND in the targeted areas.
7. Deliverables and work schedule
A. Work plan for the implementation of the assignment for MA-AN-s approval before
commencement. To be delivered no later than five days after the kick-off meeting,
B. Final report for each assignment with challenges and recommendations for future work that is
beyond the scope of the current project,
C. For each group assigned to the contractor, he/she is expected to work with the entrepreneurs
for the allocated time to finish a specific task that will be agreed upon at the time. Below are
some examples:
 Work with one entrepreneur to fully develop a business plan,
 Work with a group of entrepreneurs to finalize the BoQ for their needs and procurement
details,
 Work with a group of entrepreneurs on delivering training on feasibility study basics, and/or
financial management,
 Work with an entrepreneur to fully develop her product.
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8. Implementation timeframe
Implementation will be based on specific needs of the targeted beneficiaries, and will be between
March 20, 2021 - December 31, 2021.
9. Selection criteria
Offers will be first assessed on their technical merits using the evaluation criteria below. Only offers with
technical scores of at least 70 points will qualify for the financial review. The financial offer weight is
20% from the total weight of the evaluation while the technical offer is 80%.
Item Weight in evaluation
Contractor-s past experience in similartasks in the
specified field
%100
10. Application requirements
Applications MUST include:
1. Technical offer:
a. The contractor-s legal name and official registration documents/if any,
b. The contractor-s CV that includes technical work history in accordance with the
requested areas of expertise,
c. Demonstration of previous examples of similar work.
2. Financial offer: Should be submitted in $USD using the BoQ form in annex 1.
Proposals should be submitted to the following address in a sealed and stamped envelope.
MA-AN Development Center
Ramallah office
Al-Masyoun, Emil Habibi street
Al-Nahdah building, 5th Floor (above Bravo supermarket)
Tel: 00970 - 2 - 2954451/0592070113/0599671243
Deadline for submission is 16:00, March18, 2021.
مالحظة: رسوم االعالن في موقع جوبس سيتم تحميلها على المدربين الذين يتم اختيارهم للتدريب مقسمة حسب االصول.
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11. Special terms
A. The contractor should get MA-AN Development Center approval on all work plans,
methodologies, and any other tool prior to commencement,
B. The contractorshall not subcontract in whole or in part any of this assignment-s tasks without
the explicit, written approval of MA-AN Development Center,
C. The contractorshall provide MA-AN Development Centerwith full names, positions, and dates of
birth for its key staff and if applicable, for any subcontract related to this assignment,
D. The contractorshall handle all logistics in terms of transportation, communication, coordination,
and permits to West Bank and Gaza if needed,
E. The contractorshould be able to provide official VAT invoices,
F. The project is VAT exempted, financial offers must be in USD, excluding VAT, and adhere to VAT
exemption procedures applied by Ministry of Finance in the West Bank.
G. The contractorshould be able to provide deduction at source, otherwise, 10% will be deducted
on behalf of the Ministry of Finance as income tax.
12. Payment schedule
Payment will be made according to the following schedule, subject to certification of satisfactory
completion by MA-AN technical team:
Deliverables Payment
The contractor may charge MA-AN at the end of every two months of
deliverables b

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