TERMS OF REFERENCE Request for Consultancy Company

  • 7 August، 2023
TERMS OF REFERENCE Request for Consultancy Company

TERMS OF REFERENCE Request for Consultancy Company

For Assisting Economic Empowerment for Gaza Entrepreneurs project's ICT startups  

 Background About Women’s Affairs Center (WAC): 

 Women’s Affairs Center (WAC) is a women knowledge-based centre playing an innovative and catalytic role in empowering women and advocating women's rights and gender equality in the Palestinian sustainable development process. Its mission reflects that it is an independent and non-profit Palestinian NGO with the purpose of empowering women and advocating women’s rights and gender equality through capacity development,  information and innovative research and advocacy programs. While implementing its strategy to fulfil its vision, WAC is guided by international human rights principles including empowerment and participation; equality and non-discrimination; and accountability to ensure justice and dignity for women. 

 About “Economic Empowerment for Gaza Entrepreneurs 2023” Project:  WAC is implementing the “Economic Empowerment for Gaza Entrepreneurs 2023 (GoPinky)” project which is funded by DanChurchAid/Norwegian Church Aid (DCA/NCA). The project aims at enhancing economic empowerment and increasing the prosperity for low-income young women and men in the Gaza Strip through joint approaches that support innovation and entrepreneurship to overcome challenges that impede achieving progress towards sustainable economic development. It targets unemployed young female graduates and young Gazan entrepreneurs. It provides support to young female graduates to acquire digital skills and competencies required in the labour market and to young entrepreneurs to create new innovative businesses, which will, in turn, create employment opportunities and address market-related challenges. 

 Assignment Objective: 

WAC is considering the selection of highly qualified Consultancy Company to provide technical and business support and guidance to young entrepreneurs incubated to successfully develop prototypes for entrepreneurs' new business start-ups.

The Consultancy Company will be mainly responsible for providing 92 coaching and mentorship hours distributed over 4 ICT enterprises. Each enterprise will get a total of 23 coaching hours divided as follows: 8 technical coaching hours, 5 financial coaching hours, 5 business coaching hours and 5 marketing hours to develop their prototypes and facilitate their access to the market. 

Target Group:  
4 teams of entrepreneurs (females and males), and each team is steered by a female entrepreneur. 
It is worth mentioning that entrepreneurs have already received training and coaching on (General understanding of entrepreneurship, developing business models, and pitching skills) during the pre-incubation stage. 
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
The consultancy company will be required to carry out the following tasks under the direct supervision of the project coordinator:
- Participate in an orientation session with the project coordinator to discuss the methodology of work adopted by WAC, and with entrepreneurs to establish and launch the mentoring relationship. 
- Assist in the selection of the best 4 out of 15 ICT enterprises to receive the technical and business coaching and grants. 
- Meet regularly with entrepreneurs to discuss entrepreneur's progress. 
 - Work with the entrepreneurs to identify and reflect on specific goals and actions needed in order to successfully develop their prototypes. 
 - Supervise the principles of good coding. 
- Help the entrepreneurs to identify other sources of support as appropriate. 7. Provide encouragement to sustain the entrepreneurs' motivation. 
 - Recognize and celebrate progress as it is made. 
- Submit quarterly reports to WAC regarding the status of the relationship and business progress. 
- Give continuous feedback, validation, and recommendations for the related stakeholders. 
- Participate in meetings and workshops related to the project activities. 
- Understand and adhere to the policies and procedures of WAC. 
 - Perform other duties as may be assigned by the project coordinator concerning the mission. 

Timing: 
The technical and business coaching hours should be delivered over a period of 4-5 weeks.  The work timeline may be altered by the project and ICT – WAC team at its discretion. A high commitment should be granted to the timeframe and any change in the timeframe should be discussed, justified and validated by WAC. Any setback that occurs affecting the cycle of the sessions due to the failure of the advisor; WAC reserves the right to terminate the contracts without offering compensation.

 Application Process: 
Interested applicants should hand over technical and financial offers, as below: 
- The advisor shall submit a technical offer including but not limited to (Brief Bio highlighting areas of professional experience, approach and methodology, and timeframe with clear details concerning how the component is to be executed).  
-  Financial offers shall be submitted only in USD currency. (Use the enclosed template!) 
The closing date for receiving offers is on Sunday 10/08/2022, at 12:00 PM (local time of the Palestinian Territory). Offers must be submitted by hand on WAC office- Procurement Department.  
Address: Al-Nasr - Al-Lababidi Street - Al-Saeed Building – 2nd Floor. 
 Please press HERE to view the Terms of Reference