Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The consultant team shall implement market-oriented digital skills trainings through locally sub-contracted training providers and their curricula in the EAC, to enhance digital skills of young people and businesses in the seven EAC Partner States (Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda).
In its implementation, the contractor will take on the role of coordinator for the training activities and will be required to demonstrate a strong implementation presence within the EAC. In addition, the coordinator will be responsible for provision of already existing curricular on topics mentioned in work-packages 2,3 and 4 that are designed for implementation within the EAC, logistics of the trainings, reporting, monitoring and overall project management; including, the understanding of national regulations of each state within the EAC with regard to implementation of national projects by international organisations. Example, in Tanzania, it is required for international organisations implementing projects within the country to have national registration of their offices that are tax paying within the country.
Training experts shall be identified according to the transparent quality criteria outlined in section 4.
A minimum of 470 participants shall be trained equitably among the EAC Partner States, of which at least 40% must be women. A participant can be trained on one training package only as follows: Digital Skills for Universities Transformation towards Quality Education Experience or Data Analytics, Visualisation and Narrative generation or Digital Marketing and E-Commerce for Business Expansion.
The contractor is deemed as the central coordinator for these activities to put together the implementing team, which includes qualified training experts. In particular, the contractor is overall responsible for:
- Project management
- Develop a concept for the trainings provision, implementation plan - including timeline for each training, to be conducted for each of the seven EAC Partner States
- Identify training experts to train on the topics in work-packges 2, 3 and 4, facilities, technical infrastructure and equipment (eg Learning Management System) to conduct trainings in a physical or blended-learning or virtual approach in the EAC. A table of content with topics and sub-topic description should be provided as attachment at point of tender submission.
- COVID-19 restrictions in the countries need to be observed in designing the training approaches. Fully online trainings should be an exception and used only where necessary or as the ToR provides.
- Design and organise the application and selection process for participants from the EAC Partner States
- Develop communication material: These include but are not limited to project reports, meeting minutes, training certificates, call for application to participants, Training participation material to the participants and summaries to GIZ, Surveys and reports. This applies to external and internal communication to project stakeholders.
- Backstopping with the responsible GIZ project advisor throughout the process on the following: Regular reporting (weekly during training implementation) on the training and participation (eg number of participants, gender, country, industry affiliation, position in the company, upcoming project matters and to contractors' position) and overall staggered project reporting to GIZ as will be indicated on the reporting schedule outlined on respective workpackages. All this communication to external parties and participants and internal parties to the project (stakeholders) will be carried out in the English language.
- Survey among participants at the end of each training about the satisfaction and quality of the training
- Certification of successful participants. Upon successful completion of a training program, participants will be awarded with certificates of successful completion. The contractor will be required to give a definition of success in relation to the training programs. In addition, provide draft certificate design according to project partner representation as will be guided by the project.
The contractor contributes to the project"s output 3 ("Short-term training courses for digital skills designed according to the needs of the industry have been successfully carried out.") as described in this document.
The contractors indicators in contributing to output 3 are:
Indicator 1:
5 short-term training courses on digital skills that are relevant to the industry are carried out in collaboration with the industry.
Contractor"s contribution to the indicator:
3 short-term training courses on digital skills that are relevant to the industry are carried out in collaboration with the industry.
Indicator 2:
462 of 700 participants, 185 (40%) of whom are women, successfully completed a short-term training course on digital skills.
Contractor"s contribution to the indicator:
310 of 470 participants, 124 (40%) of whom are women, successfully completed a short-term training course on digital skills.
Project Timeline:
The duration of contract is from contract award until 31.12.2024.