81296348 VB-Coaching and mentorship to support digital entrepreneurship for women micro-entrepreneurs

Consultancy to conduct Coaching and mentorship to support digital entrepreneurship for women micro-entrepreneurs The scope of work for this assignment requires the utilization of new digital business skills by 240 informal small-scale workers, including 192 female entrepreneurs. The aim is to demonstrate the use of these skills through gender-transformative coaching formats. Coaching and mentoring will play a crucial role in supporting women-led businesses, and the contractor is expected to facilitate the recruitment and onboarding of coaches and mentors who utilize gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches. These coaches and mentors will help women micro-entrepreneurs develop new digital and entrepreneurial skills, potentially through one-on-one coaching sessions or group coaching sessions tailored to individual needs. The contractor will implement one round of capacity development programs, consisting of coaching and mentorship, for a minimum of 70% women among 300 informal micro-entrepreneurs in the Ashanti, Eastern, and Northern regions. The duration of this contract will be 32 weeks. The tender consists of six work packages designed to support digital entrepreneurship, with a focus on women micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. The work packages include the identification and selection of target beneficiaries, primarily women entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas, recruit and train local intermediaries who will provide coaching and mentorship service to the selected beneficiaries. A total of 300 entrepreneurs, with at least 210 women, will be selected and onboarded from the Ashanti, Eastern, and Northern regions in Ghana. These entrepreneurs should already have existing informal enterprises. The contractor will develop selection criteria, recruit intermediaries, provide training, and establish a communication and support plan. The tender will also focus on training and certification of coaches and mentors to ensure high-quality support for the participating entrepreneurs. The bidder will collaborate with women entrepreneurs, coaches and mentors, university partners, industry partners, government partners, and the GIZ project team to co-create the coaching curriculum and mentorship framework. Finally, the contractor will coordinate the delivery of the 32 weeks coaching and mentorship program for women entrepreneurs. The contractor will be responsible for ensuring high-quality service by closely tracking mentees' progress, documenting, and sharing group coaching sessions, and monitoring the attendance of coaches, mentors, and mentees. The bidder will ensure an effective monitoring and evaluation through the entire implementation of the contract across all work packages. Overall, the contractor will work towards achieving project output indicator 3.1 by providing coaching and mentorship services to women micro-entrepreneurs, incorporating a gender-transformative and inclusive approach. The work packages encompass target beneficiary selection, onboarding of coaches and mentors, curriculum development and certification, trainer training, coordination, and quality assurance, as well as monitoring and evaluation. Duration The assignment will be conducted from contract award until 31 October 2025.