81308025-Strengthening the Green Services Portfolio of Business Service Providers in Egypt

In developing countries similar to the Egyptian context, the path leading to industrial development often comes with significant environmental downside. Rapid industrialization, coupled with resource constraints and lack of the consumer awareness aggravate the environmental negative impact. Nevertheless, developing countries have a strong edge in basing their industrialization efforts on climate considerate mitigation measures to reduce environmental externalities and improve their global competitive situation. Until recently, green manufacturing and energy efficiency practices were not the Egyptian industries" top priorities due to subsidized energy prices. However, following major energy subsidy reforms and new emerging local and international climate regulations, Egypt"s industries started to seek alternative solutions to maintain their profit margins, especially the energy-intensive one. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to implement the project "Private Sector Innovation" (PSI). The project is now entering a follow-on commission for three years (01/06/2024 until 30/05/2027). PSI II has a green manufacturing focus and will be implemented in partnership with public and private entities with the objective "to improve the competitive situation of the Egyptian industry in light of increasing market requirements for a green transformation of the economy" in four interconnected outputs. Output 3 focuses on strengthening the range of technical service offers, particularly those offered by female-led service providers or women in consulting, to promote the competitive situation of the industry in line with a green economic transformation. This assignment will directly contribute to the implementation of output 3 with the main objective of strengthening the capacities of service providers in Egypt to offer green business development service (Green BDS) to industrial clients. The contract intends to support the Egyptian Green BDS providers with the packages of technical assistance, business development advisory and coaching. Through the support to the local service providers, Egyptian manufacturing companies are enabled to adopt green manufacturing practices as well as resource-efficient and cleaner production measures. The major activities to be undertaken under this contract over the duration of 30 months of implementation are: - Analysis of the demand and supply of green business development services and development of the technical assistance implementation strategy. - Support of relevant service providers with capacity and competence development measures to provide basic and advanced green advisory services for industrial SMEs and integrate green services for companies into their portfolio. - Piloting the delivery of the green business development services to industrial companies (small, medium and large companies) to support them in undergoing the technical and economic feasibility of investments in more climate and environmentally friendly business models/production processes. - Additional support to females graduates with opportunities for skills development and mentorship. Target group of the assignment This tender primarily targets Green BDS providers with a track record in delivering services to industrial enterprises on both a basic and advanced level. The providers offer services related to the concept of resource-efficient and cleaner production or the environmental sustainability in a broader sense (e.g., resource-, energy-, water- efficiency / waste management, scaling renewable energy, climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, recycling, promoting compliance with international environmental standards e.g. ISO 14001, regional and/or international trade policy instruments e.g. CBAM , etc.).