Deadline: 2-Nov-22
Under this Call for Proposals (CFP), UN Women will recruit a partner to conduct a mapping and capacity assessment of women-owned businesses in Kaduna and Lagos States.
The project focuses on advancing gender responsive procurement processes in Kaduna and Lagos as targeted States.
Women entrepreneurs face significant structural barriers, which limit their growth and development. Women tend to be more affected by poverty than men, have limited knowledge on existing procurement processes/policies and available support, and have limited access to finance and capital. Women-owned small and medium enterprises (WSME) are severely underrepresented as suppliers, securing only an estimated 1 per cent of procurement contracts. Integrating gender responsive procurement initiatives in COVID-19 response and recovery strategies represents an opportunity to mitigate the direct impact of this crisis on women -owned businesses.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [ N19,117,350 – N25,489,800]
Deliverables
- Initial consultation between the consultant and the UN Women’s Women Economic Empowerment team to agree on the assignment and development of detailed workplan.
- Submit an inception report with clearly designed and detailed mapping methodology and data collection tools for conducting the capacity needs assessment and mapping exercise
- Using clearly defined criteria (established in collaboration with UN Women), collate, and analyze field data from Lagos and Kaduna States according to most active, years of existence, technical capacity, resources including financial strength, geographical spread, number of employees, turnover etc.
- Conduct a mapping and assessment of the capacities of women owned MSMEs in Lagos and Kaduna States.
- Document active women-led organizations, identify their capacity gaps/needs and challenges in the cause of business operations.
- Provide key recommendations including but not limited to capacity building needs, resources mobilization and partnership strategies and opportunities towards building leadership and promoting their participation in gender responsive procurement in respective states.
- Conduct a validation workshop with relevant stakeholders, including key government institutions, women owned MSMEs to review and validate findings
- Develop and submit a final report on the capacity needs of the targeted Women Owned Businesses with actionable recommendations to UN Women to support capacity strengthening to enhance access to procurement opportunities.
- Develop a PowerPoint presentation on the overall report focusing on findings and recommendations.
Eligibility Criteria
UN Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Reputation of Organisation and Staff
- Documented successful track record (for newly formed organizations, the personnel to be assigned to the UN Women project should have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field);
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects);
- General Organizational Capability:
- Excellent methods for content analysis of large bodies of qualitative and quantitative information.
- Demonstrates outstanding skilled knowledge of qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods.
- Demonstrates excellent ability to prioritize and focus research questions to produce relevant and useful recommendations.
- Objectivity and ability to analyze large datasets in short period.
- Excellent knowledge and technical skills on community engagement approaches.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly to summarize complex findings and convey complex achievements in clear results language.
- Strong skills in data presentation.
- Organizational expertise in specified programme Area:
- Evidence that the organization has previous experience and expertise of successfully managing projects of the same nature, related to mapping and capacity assessments of women owned businesses and conducting research.
- Reputation of Organisation and Staff
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Accountability and Financial Control:
- A functioning internal control framework and process to deliver quality and timely project results against budget.
- Evidence of registration in Nigeria with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
- Audit reports for last two years.
- Certificate of job completion issued to the organization in the past for similar activities implemented.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
For more information, visit https://africa.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2022/10/unw-wca-nga-cfp-2022-010