Deadline: 5-Jun-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) kindly request you to submit your Proposal for Engagement of business membership organizations to strengthening SMEs competitiveness and export readiness for the AFCFTA market.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Uganda developed and is implementing the “Trading Beyond EAC and COMESA; Unlocking the Potential of Uganda in the AfCFTA”, a project designed to enable the country to harness the enormous potential that the trade agreement carries. Through the project, UNDP is supporting the Government of Uganda to boost trade between Uganda and other African countries.
Scope of Work
The selected BMOS will be required to:
- In consultation with the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives (MTIC) and UNDP, organize a stakeholders’ workshop to identify Uganda’s niche products and service value chains; and focus markets within the AfCFTA.
- In consultation with UNDP, develop a selection criterion and identify 600 SMEs in the niche value chains interested in exporting through AfCFTA. The selection criteria should take into account regional and gender considerations.
- Using agreed-upon tools, conduct competitiveness and export readiness assessments on selected SMEs and develop a capacity-building program (including training manuals and guides) intended to address the capacity gaps identified.
- Implement the capacity-building program targeting the selected SMEs. This will include training, provision of onsite business coaching, mentoring, and business advisory support to targeted SMEs.
- Facilitate business-to-business linkages between Ugandan SMEs and enterprises in focus markets within the AfCFTA.
- Contribute to the development of the national AfCFTA strategy through the organizing of consultations with SMEs
Duration: The expected duration of the assignment is 150 working days spread over the period 15th June to 15 February 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- A vendor should not be suspended, debarred, or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group or any other international Organization. Vendors are therefore required to disclose to UNDP whether they are subject to any sanction or temporary suspension imposed by these organizations.
- It is the Bidder’s responsibility to ensure that its employees, joint venture members, sub-contractors, service providers, supplier s and/or their employees meet the eligibility requirements as established by UNDP.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=91623