CFPs: ResiliArt Accelerator Zimbabwe Implementation Partner

Deadline: 21-Feb-22

UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the ResiliArt Accelerator Zimbabwe Implementation Partner.

The ResiliArt Accelerator project innovatively responds to the existing knowledge and capacity gaps in entrepreneurial skills and the formalization of creative businesses expressed by thousands of stakeholders during the debates organized in the context of the UNESCO ResiliArt movement.

ResiliArt is a global movement launched in April 2020 consisting of a series of virtual debates with key industry professionals and artists – both renowned and unknown – to raise awareness of the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative sector.

The project’s focus on women creative professionals addresses the persistent challenges that women face in the creative industries, further worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, five women from Zimbabwe leading an existing creative business with a limited or informal capacity will receive customized online mentorship from international women creative professionals from Africa and regular face-to-face sessions from a team of local coaches. Subjects will range from project planning, pitch, fundraising, marketing and financing.

Together, they will collaborate to enhance the business skills and professional capacities of the mentees and to improve the reach and scale of their creative businesses. Partnerships with Ministries and international and local financial institutions will be envisaged for future funding opportunities in order to support the sustainability of the individual businesses after UNESCO’s exit.

Criteria

Diffuse a call for beneficiaries, in coordination with the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, on social media platforms, websites, newspapers, etc.
Assist UNESCO with the selection of five women beneficiaries, based on the criteria provided by the project brief, and establish relevant contractual agreements with them.
Provide logistical and administrative support:
- The transportation and accommodation of beneficiaries outside of Harare for the duration of the local coaching sessions;
- Collecting the beneficiaries’ legal documents (including copies of ID, company profiles and CVs);
- Establish contracts with the beneficiaries, following UNESCO guidelines on contracts, detailing committed hours, work required and consent forms for filming and photography.
- Disbursement of funds to beneficiaries (i.e. incidental and food allowances).
Select (in coordination with the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa), hire and manage the coaching team consisting of 5 women creative professionals with the expertise required in the various creative and cultural industries of Zimbabwe (including but not limited to fashion, design and crafts, music, visual arts and photography, publishing, and audio-visual and digital media).
Assist UNESCO with the diffusion of a “call for mentors”. The mentoring team will consist of five (5) women creative professionals from 5 African countries, based on the criteria provided by the project brief.
Interact and coordinate closely with the mentoring team, throughout the coaching sessions.
Provide a venue to host the face-to-face coaching sessions, which is compliant with COVID-19 regulations; has adequate IT equipment with a stable WiFi network; and a suitable working space.
Provide logistical support to coaches with supplying relevant material to deliver coaching sessions including stationery, flipcharts, presentation boards, markers and any other material they require.