Terms of Reference
To deliver Entrepreneurship Skills Development Training and Business Development Service to rural youth enterprises in honey and silk market systems in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray Regions.
Background
Ethiopia encounters significant unemployment challenge that affects young people especially hard. Youth unemployment rates are four times higher than the rates among adults, and particularly high among females. Considering this challenge, the Mastercard Foundation funded a program titled ‘’MOre Young Entrepreneurs in Silk and Honey (MOYESH)’’ to contribute to government efforts in reducing youth unemployment in the country. The goal of the program is to ‘’secure dignified and fulfilling direct employment for 100, 000 unemployed youth (60% women)” through providing youth with appropriate skills and enabling them to establish beekeeping and sericulture business enterprises. The program will have positive impacts on altogether 14.6 million people along the honey and silk value chains through multiplier effects. MOYESH is a five-year program (October 2019-October 2024) implemented by icipe (http://www.icipe.org/) in close partnership with collaborating private and public sector institutions in four regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' (SNNP)).
Objectives
General Objective
The objective of the consultancy service is to provide life skills and entrepreneurship skill development training and later Business Development Service to young aspiring entrepreneurs who will engage in honey and silk production in Amhara, SNNP, Oromiya and Tigray Regions.
Specific Objectives
Target Group
The participants of the training are located in the selected 10 woredas of each region, with the following indicative target number of youths in the Regions for this year:
Scope of the Service
The training service to be prepared and delivered by the consultant should mainly focus on providing an educational video program that teaches life skills, business skills and entrepreneurship development through a battery-powered digital video streaming device to be distributed to participants who live in remote areas where access to electricity is limited. Trainees will be provided with technical guidance and the training program so that they can go through the training modules by themselves with the following features:
The mode of delivery of the consultancy service will be as follows:
Eligibility and selection criteria
Consulting firms need to fulfill the following criteria:
Expected Outputs and Deliverables
The consulting firms are expected to submit technical and financial proposal in a sealed envelope within 10 days of this advertisement.