Development of products for women owned/run businesses

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“Development of products for women owned/run businesses”

About BWF:

The Business Women Forum (BWF) is a national non-profit association established in 2006, to help “strengthen the role of businesswomen as leaders in the Palestinian economy through advocacy, networking, and the provision of business services”. BWF has members and beneficiaries from all over the West Bank cities and the Gaza Strip.

Background:

Within the framework of the BWF project entitled “Empowerment of Palestinian Women for the year 2017 - Tamkeen”, which is funded by the Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development; BWF is targeting 32 women entrepreneurs and 60 female graduates from all over the West Bank; for the aim of networking amongst graduates who are looking for job opportunities and ways to develop their capacities and skills in sales and marketing and women entrepreneurs who want to develop and grow their businesses and promote their products and services.

Objective:

The Business Women Forum (BWF) is seeking to hire a qualified Business Service Provider – BSP (consultant andor designer) to be responsible for the assessment and development of products  andor services for 32 women owned/run businesses in the following categories: products (food, Soap, embroidery, jewelry and handicrafts), services (kindergartens, law firms, real estate firms, learning centers) , . The selected consultant andor designer is expected to benchmark and assess existing product categories and guide women MSMEs in developing their products to be marketable, competitive, and exportable in local, regional and international markets.

Qualifications and skills:

-    A BA degree in design, packaging and labeling, marketing, quality assurance, product development or any relevant field. An MA degree is an asset;
-    Proven knowledge of the Palestinian economic and trade contexts;
-    At least 3 years of extensive working experience in providing consultancy and design services in a relevant field; previous knowledge and working experience with women MSMEs;
-    Excellent time management skills.

Main Tasks and responsibilities:

-    Review project document, profiles/ of beneficiaries and prepare a detailed work plan with a timeframe, including objectives and actions.
-    Conduct field visits to assess the current productsservices of the 32 MSMEs.
-    Benchmark existing products specifications to local, regional and international  markets requirements and standards
-    Develop 32 reports of set of practical recommendations/approaches through providing the 32 MSMEs with recommendations, guidelines and next steps leading to the development of commercially successful products locally, regionally and internationally; in addition to providing a set of recommendations of packaging and branding of the different productsservices of the 32 MSMEs.

Application Deadline: 07-09-2017, at 2.00 pm.
Time frame: September –November 2017

Application: Interested candidates should submit their technical and financial offers accompanied by a recent CV, a cover letter, company profile (where applicable), relevant experience in conducting similar assignments, methodology and implementation plan to conduct the whole assignment (with clear identification of tasks, no. of days and daily rate) in sealed envelopes and by hand to BWF office, located in Al Balou’, Al Fare’ Building, 2nd floor, Ramallah.

For any further details, please send an email on [email protected]

Notice:

-    Price offers should be provided in USD including VAT.
-    All BSPs should submit taxable invoice; in case this was not possible, 5% of the total amount will be deducted.
-    BWF has the right of cancelling the tender or changing any of the above mentioned items.
-    This ToR is open for individual consultants and companies.
-    The price offers shouldn’t not include cost of transportation of field visits.
-    The daily rates in the price offers should take into consideration that the mission will be divided as follows:

a) Review of project documents
b) 10 days of field work
c) Preparation of 32 reports as per the above
d) Preparing one full report for the whole assignment
 

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