81296348-Coaching and mentorship to support digital entrepreneurship for women micro-entrepreneurs

Kurze Beschreibung

Consultancy to conduct Coaching and mentorship to support digital entrepreneurship for women micro-entrepreneurs
The scope of work for this assignment requires the utilization of new digital business skills by 240 informal small-scale workers, including 192 female entrepreneurs. The aim is to demonstrate the use of these skills through gender-transformative coaching formats. Coaching and mentoring will play a crucial role in supporting women-led businesses, and the contractor is expected to facilitate the recruitment and onboarding of coaches and mentors who utilize gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches. These coaches and mentors will help women micro-entrepreneurs develop new digital and entrepreneurial skills, potentially through one-on-one coaching sessions or group coaching sessions tailored to individual needs. The contractor will implement one round of capacity development programs, consisting of coaching and mentorship, for a minimum of 70% women among 300 informal micro-entrepreneurs in the Ashanti, Eastern, and Northern regions. The duration of this contract will be 32 weeks.
The tender consists of six work packages designed to support digital entrepreneurship, with a focus on women micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. The work packages include the identification and selection of target beneficiaries, primarily women entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas, recruit and train local intermediaries who will provide coaching and mentorship service to the selected beneficiaries. A total of 300 entrepreneurs, with at least 210 women, will be selected and onboarded from the Ashanti, Eastern, and Northern regions in Ghana. These entrepreneurs should already have existing informal enterprises. The contractor will develop selection criteria, recruit intermediaries, provide training, and establish a communication and support plan. The tender will also focus on training and certification of coaches and mentors to ensure high-quality support for the participating entrepreneurs. The bidder will collaborate with women entrepreneurs, coaches and mentors, university partners, industry partners, government partners, and the GIZ project team to co-create the coaching curriculum and mentorship framework. Finally, the contractor will coordinate the delivery of the 32 weeks coaching and mentorship program for women entrepreneurs. The contractor will be responsible for ensuring high-quality service by closely tracking mentees' progress, documenting, and sharing group coaching sessions, and monitoring the attendance of coaches, mentors, and mentees.
The bidder will ensure an effective monitoring and evaluation through the entire implementation of the contract across all work packages. Overall, the contractor will work towards achieving project output indicator 3.1 by providing coaching and mentorship services to women micro-entrepreneurs, incorporating a gender-transformative and inclusive approach. The work packages encompass target beneficiary selection, onboarding of coaches and mentors, curriculum development and certification, trainer training, coordination, and quality assurance, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
Duration
The assignment will be conducted from contract award until 31 October 2025.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

Consultancy to conduct Coaching and mentorship to support digital entrepreneurship for women micro-entrepreneurs
Scope of work: Summary of Work Packages and deliverables of the assignment
The contractor is responsible for achieving project output indicator 3.1, which requires 240 informal small-scale workers, including 192 female entrepreneurs, use examples to demonstrate that they have used new digital business skills in their profession through gender-transformative coaching formats.
Coaching and mentoring are proven tools for helping women-led businesses succeed. The contractor is expected to facilitate the recruitment and onboarding of coaches and mentors who use gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches to help women micro-entrepreneurs to use new digital and entrepreneurial skills in their businesses. This could include one-to-one coaching sessions to acquire and utilise specific skills such as online marketing, digital advertising, or financial management. It could also include group coaching sessions to provide support and advice. Both the coaching and mentoring should be tailored to the individual needs of the participating women entrepreneurs. It is planned that the contractor will implement one round of capacity development programmes (consisting of coaching and mentorship) for 300 informal, micro-entrepreneurs, a minimum of 70% of whom will be women, across the Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regions. The capacity development programmes will have a duration of 8 months.
The contract includes six work packages, which are designed to support digital entrepreneurship with particular focus on women micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. The digital development principles will inform the strategy and design of the work packages and the approach will reflect a gender transformative and inclusive design.
1. Target Beneficiaries Selection and Onboarding
This first work package includes the identification, and selection of target beneficiaries who are women entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. A total of 300 entrepreneurs shall be selected and onboarded, min. 210 of these 300 shall be women entrepreneurs. These 300 entrepreneurs shall come from Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regions in roughly similar proportion. They need to have existing informal enterprises. Further specific criteria for selection are to be agreed upon in consultation with GIZ.
2. Selecting and Onboarding of Coaches and Mentors/ Institutions
This second work package aims at recruiting and training local intermediaries who, under the guidance and supervision of the contractor, will be responsible for providing coaching and mentorship services to target beneficiaries. The contractor will be expected to develop a set of selection criteria, recruit intermediaries, provide training, and develop a communication and support plan. The aim of this package is to identify intermediaries who can support the implementation of the work packages and provide coaching and mentorship services in the future.
3. Development of curriculum, framework and certification for Coaches and Mentors.
This work package will ensure the training and certification of Coaches and Mentors to ensure the quality of support for the participating entrepreneurs. The bidder will conduct a collaborative process involving women entrepreneurs, C&Ms, university partners, selected industry partners and government partners, as well as the GIZ project team to co-create the coaching curriculum and mentorship framework.
4. Training of Trainers (ToT) in gender-responsive digital entrepreneurship for intermediaries
The fourth work package will focus on the intermediaries selected under work package 2. The contractor is responsible for conducting a training of trainers as part of their onboarding before commencing their work. The contractor is responsible for ensuring that all coaches and mentors have undergone the training.
5. Coordination and quality assurance of Coaching and Mentorship for micro entrepreneurs
This work package is focusing on the delivery of the coaching and mentorship service to women entrepreneurs. The contractor is responsible for coordinating the delivery of the 8-month programmes and to ensure high quality. This includes close tracking of progress of mentees against goals and milestones as defined at the beginning of the programme, documentation and sharing of group coaching sessions with programme participants and attendance monitoring of both coaches, mentors, and mentees.
6. Monitoring and Evaluation
The purpose of this work package is to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the contract across all work packages. In addition, the work package aims to provide clear and operationalizable recommendations for further activities.
Duration
The assignment will be conducted from contract award until 31 October 2025.

Beschreibung der Verlängerungen

GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

Objektive Kriterien für die Auswahl der begrenzten Anzahl von Bewerbern

If more than five candidates/associations are considered suitable, only the five candidates/associations ranked in the top five according to the following selection criteria will be invited to submit a tender. The other candidates/associations will not be invited to submit a tender. This selection will be made under all eligible participants based on the following criteria:
I. Technical experience
1. capacity building programmes for women-led micro enterprises (weighting 15 %)
2. capacity building projects for entrepreneurs on digital literacy and using digital solutions (weighting 10 %)
3. access to finance and markets for women-led micro enterprises (weighting 10 %)
4. capacity building and training programmes (weighting 15 %)
5. entrepreneurial ecosystem development (weighting 15 %)
II. Regional experience:
Regional experience in Western Africa (weighting 20%)
III. Experience of development projects (ODA-financed)
Experience of development projects (at least 50% ODA-financed) (weighting 15 %)

Beschreibung der Optionen

GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Bedingungen

1) Name and address of the company, legal form, registered office (country), owners and controlling parties, commercial register number/dirstrict court, bank account, tax number, VAT identification number, brief company profile and contact in event of queries.
2) Extract from the commercial register or equivalent evidence/proof (not older than six months).
3) Self-declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB), section 22 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and EU-Russian sanctions apply.
4) If a candidate/tenderer wishes to use the capacities of another company for the execution of the contract or to prove his/her eligibility, she/he must prove by submitting a declaration of commitment that the corresponding capacities are available to him/her for the execution of the contract and a declaration of commitment and a declaration that no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 123 GWB and/or Section 124 GWB apply to them must be submitted (in the case to prove the elegibility, this declaration must be submitted already with the request to participate).
5) In the case of participation as a bidding consortium: tenderers must appoint a leading member and authorise this member to represent the group and to receive payments with discharging effect also for the other members. A corresponding agreement, signed by all members, must be attached to the application for participation. For this purpose, the form provided by GIZ must be used.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

1) Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-4 financial year can be included in case of invitation to tender held within 6 months of end of last financial year).
2) Declaration on the average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years

1) Average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years: at least 400,000 EUR.
2) Average number of employees and managers for the past three calendar years: at least 5 persons.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

It is necessary to provide minimum 2 reference projects in the technical field "digital women entrepreneurship" and out of these 2 reference projects at least 1 reference project must be in Western Africa, each of them in the last three years with a minimum commission value of at least 100,000 EUR

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme (technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten)

1) The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of EUR 100,000 (one hundred thousand Euro) in the last three years.
2) The minimum requirements forsee at least 2 reference projects in the technical field "digital women entrepreneurship" and out of these 2 reference projects at least 1 reference project must be in Western Africa, each of them in the last three years with a minimum commission value of at least EUR 100,000 EUR (one hundred thousand Euro).

Genaue Informationen über Fristen für Überprüfungsverfahren

According to Article 160, Section 3 of the German Act Against Restraint of Competition (GWB), application for review is not permissible insofar as
1. the applicant has identified the claimed infringement of the procurement rules before submitting the application for review and has not submitted a complaint to the contracting authority within a period of 10 calendar days; the expiry of the period pursuant to Article 134, Section 2 remains unaffected,
2. complaints of infringements of procurement rules that are evident in the tender notice are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for the application or by the deadline for the submission of bids, specified in the tender notice.
3. complaints of infringements of procurement rules that first become evident in the tender documents are not submitted to the contracting authority at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for application or by the deadline for the submission of bids,
4. more than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of notification from the contracting authority that it is unwilling to redress the complaint.
Sentence 1 does not apply in the case of an application to determine the invalidity of the contract in accordance with Article 135, Section 1 (2). Article 134, Section 1, Sentence 2 remains unaffected.