Germany – Business development consultancy services – 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 Scope of work: Summary of Work Packages and deliverables of the assignment The contractor is responsible for achieving project output indicator 3.1, which requires 240 informal small-scale workers, including 192 female entrepreneurs, use examples to demonstrate that they have used new digital business skills in their profession through gender-transformative coaching formats. Coaching and mentoring are proven tools for helping women-led businesses succeed. The contractor is expected to facilitate the recruitment and onboarding of coaches and mentors who use gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches to help women micro-entrepreneurs to use new digital and entrepreneurial skills in their businesses. This could include one-to-one coaching sessions to acquire and utilise specific skills such as online marketing, digital advertising, or financial management. It could also include group coaching sessions to provide support and advice. Both the coaching and mentoring should be tailored to the individual needs of the participating women entrepreneurs. It is planned that the contractor will implement one round of capacity development programmes (consisting of coaching and mentorship) for 300 informal, micro-entrepreneurs, a minimum of 70% of whom will be women, across the Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regions. The capacity development programmes will have a duration of 8 months. The contract includes six work packages, which are designed to support digital entrepreneurship with particular focus on women micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. The digital development principles will inform the strategy and design of the work packages and the approach will reflect a gender transformative and inclusive design. 1. Target Beneficiaries Selection and Onboarding This first work package includes the identification, and selection of target beneficiaries who are women entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas. A total of 300 entrepreneurs shall be selected and onboarded, min. 210 of these 300 shall be women entrepreneurs. These 300 entrepreneurs shall come from Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regions in roughly similar proportion. They need to have existing informal enterprises. Further specific criteria for selection are to be agreed upon in consultation with GIZ. 2. Selecting and Onboarding of Coaches and Mentors/ Institutions This second work package aims at recruiting and training local intermediaries who, under the guidance and supervision of the contractor, will be responsible for providing coaching and mentorship services to target beneficiaries. The contractor will be expected to develop a set of selection criteria, recruit intermediaries, provide training, and develop a communication and support plan. The aim of this package is to identify intermediaries who can support the implementation of the work packages and provide coaching and mentorship services in the future. 3. Development of curriculum, framework and certification for Coaches and Mentors. This work package will ensure the training and certification of Coaches and Mentors to ensure the quality of support for the participating entrepreneurs. The bidder will conduct a collaborative process involving women entrepreneurs, C&Ms, university partners, selected industry partners and government partners, as well as the GIZ project team to co-create the coaching curriculum and mentorship framework. 4. Training of Trainers (ToT) in gender-responsive digital entrepreneurship for intermediaries The fourth work package will focus on the intermediaries selected under work package 2. The contractor is responsible for conducting a training of trainers as part of their onboarding before commencing their work. The contractor is responsible for ensuring that all coaches and mentors have undergone the training. 5. Coordination and quality assurance of Coaching and Mentorship for micro entrepreneurs This work package is focusing on the delivery of the coaching and mentorship service to women entrepreneurs. The contractor is responsible for coordinating the delivery of the 8-month programmes and to ensure high quality. This includes close tracking of progress of mentees against goals and milestones as defined at the beginning of the programme, documentation and sharing of group coaching sessions with programme participants and attendance monitoring of both coaches, mentors, and mentees. 6. Monitoring and Evaluation The purpose of this work package is to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the contract across all work packages. In addition, the work package aims to provide clear and operationalizable recommendations for further activities. Duration The assignment will be conducted from contract award until 31 October 2025.