Deadline: 3-Dec-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is kindly request you to submit your Proposal for Designing and Implementing Kathmandu Business Hub (K-Hub) Pilot Programme.
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and UNDP aim to lend support to young entrepreneurs and the eco-system through the pilot of Kathmandu Business Hub.
Goals
As per the K- Hub Strategy document, the services offered by the entity would seek to achieve 3 main goals, namely:
- Developing Ecosystem Capabilities
- Enabling and Strengthening Legal and Policy Infrastructure
- Building Capacities of Ecosystem Partners
Through the K-Hub pilot programme, they aim to achieve Goal 1 through a specific activity:
- Strengthening the capacity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem through developing capabilities and skills
Thus, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Nepal requests experienced institutions to apply for the design and implementation of a 3-month entrepreneurship training programme in Kathmandu. The institution is expected to lead efforts to design the full training curriculum as well as implement it locally.
Objectives
- The programme aims to support youth enterprises to pilot innovations with a commercial imperative
- The programme aims to enable youth enterprises to expore and/or transform commercially viable pilot innovations into impact at scale
- The programme aims to establish a functional ecosystem to connect youth entrepreneurs to policymakers, mentors, knowledge and markets.
- The programme aims to design a curriculum developed especially for youth entrepreneurs to start and/or scale ideas in a post-pandemic era.
- The programme aims to provide a first-hand evidence-based entrepreneurship curriculum to 20 eager and enthusiastic teams of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
The programme aims to design and conduct specialized market research and empirical studies to help entrepreneurs navigate the business world during the pandemic.
Scope
Under the direct supervision of the UNDP Accelerator Lab, the service provider will be required to do the following:
- To design the training curriculum for the programme as per the K-Hub Strategy Document ( to be shared upon successful selection of the vendor).
- To design customized semi-virtual sessions and allocate mentors and counsellors to roll- out the curriculum.
- To design the scoring assessment plan of the programme.
- To design and launch the idea call for the programme
- To host the virtual or semi-virtual on-boarding interview event as well as the final presentation (physical or semi-virtual).
- To draft the “Training Programme Contract” for 20 enrolling teams.
- To design the communication materials such as: Social Media banners and graphics for programme activities, to design and launch a webpage for 3 months dedicated to the challenge.
- To provide a detailed methodology, explaining how he/she will address and deliver the objectives in the TOR
Eligibility Criteria
- Qualifications
- At least a Master’s degree in Business Management, Administrative studies, or similar field of academic studies
- Relevant knowledge and understanding of the business environment and labour market in Nepal.
- Team Leader
- At least a Master’s degree in Business Management, Administrative studies, or similar field of academic studies
- Relevant knowledge and understanding of the business environment and labour market in Nepal
- More than 3 years of experience working in similar assignments.
- Extensive experience in designing and hosting innovation challenges/ accelerator programme etc. with teams of diverse backgrounds.
- Experience in designing a thematic curriculum based on the need of the enterprises is mandatory.
- Provision of having a pool of mentors and counselors is mandatory.
- Experience in working with UN agencies and other international organizations is of added value.
- Existing collaboration with other entrepreneurship eco-system actors such as youth groups/NGOs/government-supported incubation programmes/academia is mandatory.
- Experience in establishing business with a human rights-based approach
- Previous experience in the development / implementation of programs with inclusion of persons with disabilities, marginalized, underrepresented, and vulnerable social groups, women and girls.
- Experience and knowledge of gender mainstreaming, gender equality, and intersectionality is a must.
- Skills and competencies
- Written and oral knowledge of the English language is mandatory
- Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity.
- Extensive experience in running trainings and demonstrated ability to adjust the pitch and method of trainings for youth audience and context.
- Experience with inclusive facilitation techniques if need be (working with sign language interpreters, with groups from various backgrounds and learning approaches, using multiple communication tools etc.)
- Experience of working with organizations of persons with disabilities, minorities, women, youth, marginalized, and vulnerable youth groups and demonstrated experience in ensuring the participation of under-represented youth groups.
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills.
- Good facilitation and presentation skills.
- Understanding of human rights-based approach and its application in project/programme design.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SMEs and local economic development approaches
- Knowledge of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) importance in business is a must.
- Work experience with Accelerator Lab – UNDP and/or other UN agencies is an added value.
- Associates
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Administrative studies, or similar field of academic studies
- Relevant knowledge and understanding of the business environment and labour market in Nepal.
- Trainers/ Mentors
- At least a Master’s degree in Business Management, Administrative studies, or similar field of academic studies
- Relevant knowledge, understanding and successful interventions undertaken in the business and/or labour market in Nepal and/or abroad.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=85782