SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES INTERNATIONAL
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
THE NEXT ECONOMY PROGRAMME EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS TRAINING AND INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT

ABOUT SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES
SOS Children’s Villages is an independent, non-governmental, social development organization that focuses on the child’s development into a self-supporting and contributing member of society. Recognizing the role of the child in his/her own development, as well as the role of his/her family, community, state and other service providers, we work together with all relevant stakeholders to find the most appropriate response to the situation of children at risk of losing parental care and those without parental care. In Nigeria, SOS Children’s Villages (SOS CV Nigeria) has been active since 1973 and has presence in Lagos, Ogun, Plateau, Oyo, Kaduna, Borno and Edo states as well as Abuja-FCT. Over the past forty-seven years, we have provided quality child care and protection to orphaned and abandoned children through our Alternative Care and Family Strengthening Programmes.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE INITIATIVE
The Next Economy Programme – “How African Youths Make it Work”, empowers Nigerian youths to unleash their talents, build their confidence and hone the skills they need for a successful career in a job role or as an entrepreneur. The programme is designed to accommodate the diverse ambitions of young people in Nigeria who are entering the labour market. With the help of the programme, young people will gain crosscutting professional skills which may be lacking in the learning curricula of higher institutions. The contracted service provider will design the training curriculum which will define the content of the training programme.

TARGET GROUP
The Next Economy Programme, is targeted at vulnerable young people in Nigeria. The activities generally target young people between the ages of 18 and 35, who are graduates and are in need of required sills for an effective career in the workplace.

TERMS FOR THE EMPLOYABILITY TRAINING AND INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT
The employability skills training component of the Next Economy Programme in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is aimed to prepare youths by equipping them with skills that meet the demands of the local labour market and to guide them, through internships, to a “decent job”.
In view of this, SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria is seeking highly experienced and qualified training professionals to facilitate a 2-week training on employability skills for selected participants, as well as facilitate the placement and linkages of participants who successfully complete the employability trajectory training into internship positions and to ensure they secure decent jobs.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
KEEPING FOOD MARKETS WORKING (KFMW) SME TECHNICAL CAPACITY SUPPORT IN NIGERIA.
ISSUED BY THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION (GAIN)

In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, GAIN developed the Keeping Food Market working (KFMW), a programme of targeted support to help sustain core food systems, workers and markets during the COVID-19 emergency. GAIN’s goal is to mitigate the collapse of food systems by supporting food markets and the value chain companies in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), especially in Africa and Asia, which face potentially catastrophic supply and demand disruption. GAIN will achieve this by establishing an emergency response programme to assess and address the challenges facing the food system.

GAIN seeks to hire a consultant that will develop and implement context specific training, mentoring and coaching support/exercise for between 5-18 SMEs focusing on a particular or a range of complementary technical capacity areas of pre-determined needs. These technical areas include supply chain management, digitization/online trading, financial management, business resilience/management and resource mobilization. This technical capacity plan is specifically intended to support SMEs in order to enhance the food system presently experiencing significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the ideal consultant is expected to identify one or two areas of technical strength and expertise, develop appropriate training/capacity building scope of work and corresponding methodology in coordination with GAIN and SMES.

DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ) GMBH
TRANSACTION NUMBER: 81263945
PROJECT PROCESSING NUMBER: 18.2022.4-001.00
PROJECT: SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
SERVICES TENDERED: SKYE MONITORING SYSTEM AND ELEARNING WORK PACKAGES
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
PROCEDURE TYPE: OPEN PROCEDURE
INVITATION TO SUBMIT A TENDER

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your interest in this procurement procedure.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has commissioned us to implement the above project. Please submit your tender by 12:00 noon on 15.01.2020 (Berlin\Germany time zone). Details of our submission requirements are explained in this letter and in the requirements for application included with the procurement documents. Please note that this is an ‘open procedure’ and that there will therefore be no negotiations.