Deadline: 30-Jun-22
UN Women Papua New Guinea Country Office invites interested NGO(s) to implement a Business Development Strategy developed to support women to increase their income levels to pre-COVID times.
UN Women has been contributing to women’s economic empowerment in Papua New Guinea by focusing on women’s safety, leadership and voice, and economic security through work in markets.
UN Women seeks to engage a contractor to provide support mechanism to women vendors to have increased economic opportunities and control over their income through the business development strategy by building the capacity of market vendors to manage their finances and build their businesses.
The key objective of the assignment is to implement the Business Development Strategy developed under the Markets, Economic Recovery and Inclusion (MERI) Programme Phase 2.
Key Result Areas
The strategy has 4 key result areas:
- Market vendors have access to appropriate business development support services that allows them to grow their business.
- Market vendors have the capacity to grow their business, save their income and improve their livelihood.
- Market vendors and their families and local community have increased awareness on gender equality.
- Women and girls have the control over their income and savings.
Duration: 10 months: 1 August 2022 to May 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Informal sector business planning and management
- Financial Literacy for illiterate groups
- Marketing
- Running a family business
- Teaching or training skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Collaboration skills
- Negotiation and persuasion skills
- Project Management Skills
- Research and strategy skills
- Computer Skills
- Business Intelligence Skills
- Curriculum development skills
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Ability to speak local language of area of operation
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