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UNDP: Open Call to support Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan

Deadline: 14-Jul-22

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) kindly request you to submit your Proposal for Designing, planning and managing Social Enterprise Platform (SEP) to support development of social entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan.

The aim of the SEP will be to instill entrepreneurial spirit and thinking among business minded CSOs and social enterprises using a realistic hands-on experience based on the internationally tested methodologies and approaches used by startup accelerators and mentorship programmes. The SEP will serve as a technical facility for social enterprise development to cater for all phases of the business from early startup to scaling up and will involve ideation, incubation and acceleration stages.

Enterprises which already have functioning SE models will be helped to accelerate through customized trainings, mentorship, demo days with investors, peer learning. At the end, CSOs and SEs with best social business proposals will be awarded with small grants to start up or grow/accelerate their innovative social business ideas (estimated number of awards – 30).

In addition, the Service Provider will also support building a pool of local master trainers/mentors who will be paired with international experts throughout the implementation of the assignment.

Components

The project’s overall development objective is to contribute to building conducive environment for a vibrant, sustainable and innovation-driven civil society in Azerbaijan. The project is built around two Components:

  • Increasing CSOs capacities to engage in policy-making and foster local development;
  • Building an enabling ecosystem and capacities for social entrepreneurship and social innovation.
Responsibilities

The scope of work of the Service Provider will be around the following essential functions:

  • Develop an overall methodology to establish and maintain Social Enterprise Platform catering for all stages of the business, from early startup to scaling up;
  • Develop a master training programme and resource toolkit, and deliver Training of Trainers to create a pool of core capacity on social entrepreneurship that will be involved in all stages of SE platform development and functioning;
  • Devise a training programme and deliver 2 to 3 training workshops on social impact business skills to the CSOs interested in shifting towards SE model and socially oriented SMEs.
  • Develop a toolkit/handbook for social entrepreneurs to support them at all stages of social enterprise development;
  • Contribute to preparation of an overall framework, terms and conditions for the organizing a competitive process for grant awards to establish new or expand existing social enterprises;
  • Design and facilitate an ideation bootcamp where CSOs/SE (approximately 60 organizations) will work on social gaps and potential solutions including social innovations (Introduction to Start up World);
  • Participate in the assessment of the initial ideas and select social business ideas for the incubation or acceleration stage;
  • At the incubation stage, deliver advanced customized trainings and mentorship services for the selected CSOs and social enterprises (approximately 40 organizations) to further elaborate and develop their ideas. It is expected that the organization will cluster the businesses by type and will deliver trainings specific for each cluster;
  • Directly provide ad hoc business development support to selected social enterprises, with the aim to help them grow their business and access new markets (300 hours of mentorship);
  • Create a platform to engage and coordinate with partners in the ecosystem for the effective follow-up, coaching and mentorship;
  • Develop informative Digital Knowledge Platform (fully developed platform, including software and content) for social entrepreneurs;
  • Participate in the planning and organization of at least 1 Demo Day with investors, accelerators and other potential partners;
  • Develop a training programme and deliver training for local organisations with a potential to assist social entrepreneurs to access finance, markets, partners and networks, talents and competences.
  • Develop an evaluation grid and guidance for evaluator to evaluate established social enterprises in terms of sustainability and social impact after 1 year.
Criteria

The Service Provider must describe and explain how and why they are the best entity that can deliver the requirements of UNDP by indicating the following:

  • Business Licenses – Registration Papers, Tax Certification etc.
  • Profile – describing the nature of business, field of expertise, licenses, certifications, accreditations;
  • The company’s portfolio of previous projects for similar services as those required by UNDP, indicating description of the contract scope, contract duration, contract value, contact references/contact details;
  • At least two reference letters from previous customers/clients/partners reflecting the nature of projects implemented, their results, and the role of the applicant company;
  • Written Self-Declaration that the company is not in the UN Security Council 1267/1989 List, UN Procurement Division List or Other UN Ineligibility List.

For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=92200