TERMS OF REFERENCE
CONSULTANCY SERVICE FOR PROVIDING BASIC JEWELLERY TRAINING TO LAPIDARIES AND JEWELERS
1. BACKGROUND
MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) is an organization dedicated to creating business solutions to poverty. MEDA’s Global Affairs Canada-funded EMERTA project (meaning leaping to a great height in Amharic) runs for six (6) years, from 2016 to 2022 with the objective of contributing to increased income and employment opportunities for 16,000 entrepreneurs and 275
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) focusing on three value chains: rice, vegetables and gemstones.
1.2. EMERTA Value Chain Project
EMERTA, is committed to increasing sustainable employment and income generation for women and men in Amhara region of Ethiopia in the three sectors, with a focus on women. The project is committed to increasing sustainable employment and incomes for women and men in Amhara by improving business performance of producers and MSMEs that buy from and supply inputs, equipment, and services to them. Simultaneously, the project will help business service providers, training institutions and government bodies to more effectively reach and serve women and men, providing improved, more gender-sensitive and environmentally sustainable services that foster growth of producers and MSMEs in the targeted sectors.
The focus of the project’s interventions in the gems sector is to help create employment and to support Ethiopia’s increased capture of value from this natural resource. The project will contribute to reduction of the illegal market of gems by facilitating changes that will increase revenues and opportunity for market actors in the legal sector thereby making participation in the legal sector more attractive. Interventions will also support sector actors to provide the quality required by international markets while stimulating demand in local and tourist markets within Ethiopia.
MEDA has been conducted research to identify issues that constrain growth of the gems sector and recognized the following bottlenecks as a serious issue; lapidary training programs are not providing adequate instruction to develop skills that meet international standards, training does not include business skills and health, safety and environment management information, limited mobility makes it difficult for women in rural communities to link to buyers or take up employment in urban areas, burdensome government regulations create incentives for illegal trade, no industry association effectively communicates private sector concerns and recommendations to government, coordinated international marketing of Ethiopian gems is lacking, local and tourism markets or Ethiopian gems is underdeveloped, brokers and lapidaries lack access to finance to smooth their cash flow cycles, and exporters lack access to financial services that can ensure international buyers have confidence when making full advance payments.
Accordingly, MEDA’s EMERTA project has come with the below stated interventions to mitigate the identified constraints. On the supply side; improve lapidary skills to meet demands of international market through upgrading curriculum and training provided by TVETs, increase access to finance by lapidary businesses through matching grants and stimulate lending by financial institutions. On the demand side, expand jewelry production that features Ethiopian gems by encouraging innovation through matching grants, stimulate consumer interest in Ethiopian gems through marketing campaigns and promote the durability and stability of Ethiopian opals in international markets by supporting articles in credible trade journals. On regulation; convene a sector dialogue group bringing exporters and government regulators together and provide information to good regulatory practices in other gems producing countries.
Thus, as part of this activity, MEDA has planned to deliver Jewelry making skill training to lapidaries and jewelers affiliated from Bahir Dar, Gondar, Woldia, Delanta/Wogeltena, Dessie, Lalibela, Sekota, Akesta, Debre Birhan towns and Addis Ababa city as well.
2. Purpose of the Training
The main aim of the training would be to provide quality jewelry making skill training that will highly contribute for the promotion of Ethiopian gemstone using fixing commercial grade stones (semi-precious stones) with metals (gold, silver and bronze) and supply to local and tourist market.
3. Expected Result of the Training
At the end of the training, MEDA expects that the trainees will gain the necessary jewelry making skills anticipated to acquire such as fixing commercial grade stones with metals, wrapping commercial grade stones with wire, silver, bronze, and others for making different pendants (necklaces, earrings, rings, etc.) using gemstone products.
4. Scope of the work
The training would be provided to jewelers and lapidaries. The scope of the work for both, shall include, but not limited to the following;
· Training contents:
ü Commercial grade stone identification by color and pattern as well as slicing/cutting.
ü Using standard template and producing different (by size and shape) polished stones.
ü Design and fixing polished stones with metals (silver and bronze) and making complete set of pendants (ear rings, necklaces and hand rings).
ü Wrapping polished commercial grade stones (free form and shaped) with metals (wire, silver bronze, and other necessary materials).
ü Mold/shape formation.
ü Bead drilling and jewelry casting.
ü Application of designed templates for mass-production of gems-jewelries for commercial business.
ü Adding extra skill is recommended and it will be considered as an area of competency.
· Training materials (both in Amharic and English) for the training shall be submitted before the training.
· Final report shall be submitted at the end of the training.
* Remark; The trainees should be required to practically demonstrate each skill and while doing this it is expected that each trainee will consume an average of 20 grams of silver, 50 grams of bronze and 1/5th of a roll (5 rolls total) of wire (copper).
5. Venue, Date and Number of Trainees
The training will be delivered at Bahir Dar, Gondar, Dessie or Addis Ababa; and tentatively scheduled on mid-September 2019 for 12 (Twelve) consecutive days except Sunday. The selected consultant/trainer who will be delivering the training in either of Amhara region cities can be allowed to utilize the available machineries of the lapidary workshop in the nearby Poly Technic College. The planned number of trainees is 22.
Education
§ BSc in Gemology, Lapidary, Jewelry and Geology and /or in related fields
§ Diploma/certificate in jewelry making skill and/or level III/IV certificate in lapidary skill
§ Level III/IV CoC certificate (Certificate of Competence) in lapidary skill.
Experience
§ At least 2 years for Degree, 3 years for diploma and 4 years for certificate on jewelry training or in making jewels made from gemstone fixed with metals (gold, silver and bronze) at public/ private business.
§ Having mounting/fixing and wrapping skill gemstone with metal is mandatory
§ Having faceting skill is an asset.
§ The consultant/trainer who will be considered for the training will be required to submit testimonial documents and/or practically demonstrate mold/shape making, fixing and wrapping of polished gemstone with metals.
§ The consultant/trainer who have a full-fledged training workshop in Amhara region or Addis Ababa can submit a proposal with this consideration to provide the training using his/her workshop.
2. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
Interested applicants should provide the following: -
§ Cover letter and current resume/CV. The cover letter must demonstrate the applicant’s understanding of and interest in the topic, describe the applicant’s capability for completing the assignment, include a timeline for completing the work, include examples of previous experience with similar activities (maximum two pages).
§ The consultant/trainer who have specific skills and experience s/he can submit a proposal jointly.
§ Should submit work plan or activity plan which shows the number of days indicating the content of the training.
§ Financial information in breakdown which includes daily rate/fees and budget to accomplish the task.
§ Costs of practically demonstrated training materials like 1/5th of a roll (5 rolls total) of wire (copper), 20 grams of silver and 50 grams of bronze per trainee as well as costs of polished semi-precious stones per trainees and others.
§ The consultant/trainer is required to come with all the necessary jewelry making portable machines/equipment.
** NB: -
I. Please note that MEDA will cover daily perdiems for the required days (as per MEDA’s scale), accommodation and airfare (double trip air transport) and therefore this cost will not be included in the financial breakdown table as shown below.
II. Applicants who doesn’t have renewed business license will be subject to a withholding tax, which is 30% of the contract amount.
III. Applicants should clearly indicate, whether their financial projection includes tax or not, (VAT 15% or ToT 10%)
Evaluation Criteria
MEDA will use the following to evaluate every proposal submitted.
· Technical proposal - 70%
· Financial proposal - 30%
No. Ser. | List of Activities | Number of days (to be taken to accomplish the activity) | Daily rate (fee per day) | Total Cost | Remarks |
1 | Training materials development in Amharic & English languages | ||||
2 | Training Delivery | 12 | |||
3 | Training report preparation | ||||
Sub-Total | |||||
Tax (_%) | |||||
4 | Costs of training materials as described in ‘Remark’ line above (*) | ||||
Grand Total |
Note: (i). The daily rate for No. 1, 2 & 3 must be same.
(ii). In No. 4 list of materials, amount and unit cost to each material can be described under
column three and cost can be stated – under total cost column and column four in this case
will be left empty.
Rate History Table
Ser. No. | List of Services Performed | Employer Name, Address and Contact Details | Dates of Assignment From | Dates of Assignment To | # of Days | Daily Rate |
IV. Evaluation Criteria: MEDA will use the following to evaluate every proposal submitted.
· Technical proposal - 70%
· Financial proposal - 30%
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