Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-02-06
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 79411100 | 85312320
Submission deadline: 2023-03-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The overall objective (outome) of the GIZ "Employment promotion for women for the green transformation in Africa (E4D)" is that the employment and economic situation of women, especially in companies driving the green transformation, has improved. Key outputs are: 1.) Labour market-oriented education and training, 2.) Transition to the labour market, 3.) Employment in value chains, 4.) Competitiveness of start-ups and MSMEs and 5.) Regional scaling of the approaches. E4D"s strategy is to establish partnerships with stakeholders from the public and private sector and civil society that will improve the employment opportunities of women in companies and value chains that are driving the economic transition to an ecologically sustainable and climate-friendly business model. Opportunity-driven and demand-oriented measures will be conducted with individual partner organisation and multi-actor partnerships in the implementation countries Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa with the aim of achieving quantitative employment effects and qualitative, transformative results. The capacity development measures at micro and meso level of implementation- and employment-oriented country measures supplement reform-oriented advisory approaches of bilateral DC projects.
E4D focuses on sectors that offer the greatest possible employment effects for women and in which companies, with their products, technologies and/or services, are   actively shaping the transition of the economy to an ecologically sustainable, climate-friendly business model (1. Sustainable agriculture and agricultural processing, 2. Blue economy and aquaculture, 3. Renewable energy, 4. Circular economy and waste management, including biomass, 5. Eco-tourism) and on two further sectors in which companies are developing more environmentally-friendly or resource-saving business models (6. Transport/Logistics, 7. Construction).
Up to now, E4D incorporates a co-financing agreement with the EU Team Europe Initiative "Investing in Young Businesses in Africa" (TEI IYBA). This initiative supports the business ecosystem and promotes a supportive business and investment climate and business culture, in particular for companies managed by young people and women. It will be implemented by the E4D programme in Kenya and South Africa together with other European partners.
The personnel concept of the overall E4D programme comprises one international long-term expert that has the responsibility for the commission of the project. In each of the five E4D implementation countries, 2 international and 4 national long-term experts will be responsible for developing and implementing the country measures in partnership with the private sector and other partner organisations (output 1-4). Four international long-term experts are part of the central steering unit of the regional project and are responsible for the financial and administrative processing and control as well as coordination of the commissioning parties of the multi-donor initiative. Furthermore, four international long-term experts will advise the project teams in the implementation countries on technical matters concerning standardised approaches for employment promotion, gender equality, the green transformation and regional scaling. Two further international long-term experts have overarching responsibility for communication, monitoring and evaluation. Three international and four national long-term experts are already deployed to implement the regional TEI IYBA. There will also be two national long-term experts responsible for implementing the TEI in Kenya and South Africa, and one international long-term expert who will be part of the centrally controlled TEI advisory team.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1 - 5 65760 Eschborn Relevant countries are: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
The contractor supports the E4D programme in the following areas: 1. Strategic advice, organisational development & steering multi-stakeholder processes; 2. Team development and leadership coaching; 3. Knowledge transfer & learning processes and 4. Advisory services on technical-strategic topics. As already mentioned in chapter 1.2, main target group for all services is internal E4D staff.
As the assignment refers to cross-cutting topics and contains mainly E4D internal advisory processes, the contractor  contributes with its services to the achievement of module indicators, outputs and output indicators (described in chapter 1.1. and in the attached results matrix) rather in an indirect way. A direct contribution to the achievement of output indicators of output 5 "Upscaling of successful approaches" is described under work package 3 (Knowledge transfer and learning).
The contractor is responsible for providing the following work packages and the accompanying milestones:
The contractor accompanies the programme, particularly the E4D management team and technical staff, from a strategic perspective throughout the whole implementation period to translate the ambitious conceptual approach "employment promotion for women for the green transformation" successfully into practice. This contains organisational development and strategic advisory services with the following activities:
- Conducting an organisational diagnosis to analyse needs of internal and external stakeholders, identify core processes and setting up an efficient process- and workflow organisation and suitable internal steering structures
- facilitation of (kick off-) and regular strategic workshops with E4D management team and E4D country teams (on demand basis) including a reflection on the implementation progress but also on established steering- and organisational structures and possible needed adaptations
- Application of Capacity WORKS - including the development of Capacity WORKS-tools according to GIZs internal quality standards ("Quality in line") for the management of complex programmes both at programme and at country level. This includes also the compulsory minimum standards such as operational planning, actors" map, steering structures and capacity development strategies - but also goes beyond these.
- Preparation, facilitation, documentation of annual-/ midterm operational planning workshops (for HQ-team and for country teams) (1-2 per year)
- Preparation, facilitation, documentation of steering committee meetings with external (co-financing-) partners (1-2 per year)
This work package is mainly directed towards E4D internal team development- and leadership processes. Thus, target group is on one hand the E4D management team (AV and teamleaders) but on the other hand staff members from all country teams and from the HQ team.

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