Deadline: 8-Jun-22
UN Women is inviting proposals for Women’s Economic Empowerment project to ensure that women in three Governorates in Egypt are economically empowered through access to capacity development, decent employment opportunities, and increased community support for gender equality.
Programs focused on women’s economic empowerment, especially in terms of including women in the private sector, are relevant and important for the Egyptian economy.
Scope of Work
The project seeks to contract a company to enhance the entrepreneurial skills of 790 women entrepreneurs in start-ups and early-stage businesses to improve the performance of their businesses and access to markets, through access to entrepreneurship education and training and business development services that comprise of:
- Legal support for business registration to support with formalization of businesses
- Marketing and digital marketing services
- Financial management skills such as budgeting and financial statement analysis
- Networking including through forging linkages within sectors that would result in embedding women led start-ups and/or
- businesses within supply chains of larger businesses and/or wider (export) market opportunities.
Objectives
- The objective of the Term of Reference (TOR) is to engage with key partners in the Egyptian entrepreneurship eco-system to enhance the entrepreneurial skills of 790 women entrepreneurs in start-ups and early-stage companies to support the success of their enterprises through access to capacity building, business development services, and linkages.
Duration
- Project Timeline: 22 months
Geographical area
- 3 governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, and Beni Suef.
Competencies
- The selected organization(s) will be responsible for the implementation of programme activities ensuring the realization of the anticipated interventions in line with UN Women rules and regulations and will work in close collaboration with the UN Women team.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- The organization must have a track record of previous experience in providing entrepreneurship training and business support. The organization must report their experience preferably through qualitative description and quantitative figures with sex-disaggregated and geographically disaggregated data (i.e., how many men and women trained in which governorates, etc.). The organization must submit an outline of its entrepreneurship curriculum, as well as its detailed implementation plan for the business development services.
- The organization must demonstrate its networking and outreach capacity.
- The organization must demonstrate its outreach in governorates outside of Greater Cairo and is able to reach beneficiaries in Alexandria and Beni Suef.
- The organization can perform activities in a timely manner.
- The organization has demonstrated capacity to adapt to crisis situations (ie, business continuity plan, examples of pivoting during COVID-19) and can deliver activities through different channels, such as online trainings, etc.)
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