81288582-Business advisory and coaching support to West African rice mills and development of capacity development courses

Project Description The contract is part of the project "Market-oriented Value Chains for Jobs and Growth in the ECOWAS Region (MOVE) in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire), which was mandated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the EU, and is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH from January 2022 until December 2024. The overall objective of MOVE is to build market-oriented and resilient value chains (rice and cashew) that contribute to the creation of income and employment in the ECOWAS region. Specifically, the goals of MOVE are: - Increasing the value creation of processing in the ECOWAS region - Improving the economics/environmental sustainability of agricultural systems - Improving the marketing of regional products - Disseminating good practices in promoting inclusive business models - Strengthening public-private cooperation in policy making GIZ is seeking the services of a contractor (consultancy firm or consortium) to support MOVE partner mills and other stakeholder with business advisory and coaching support and to strengthen their expertise through targeted capacity building activities.