Action Research on the First Employment Facility (FEF)

Reference:  PSE21002-10029

Tender type: Public services contract

Assignment: Service Procurement Contract for conducting Action Research on the First Employment Facility (FEF)

About Enabel

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges - Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality - and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East. 

About “Youth Economic Empowerment in Palestine - YEP” Project

The EU-funded Youth Economic Empowerment in Palestine (YEP) project addresses the lack of economic prospects for Palestinian youths, with a special focus on young women and other youth groups at risk of exclusion. Youth’s capacities to access wage- and self-employment opportunities are targeted through three different types of support under YEP:

The first result area relates to the development and operation of the ‘First Employment Facility’ (FEF), including laying the groundwork for an automated, online skills-based job matching platform (which is the object of this assignment). The FEF is a Work Readiness Programme that helps graduates of vocational training and higher education to enter the labour market, by matching graduates with open vacancies including 21st century (soft/life) skills training and technical on-the-job training. Employers are incentivised through wage subsidies.

Under the second result area, unemployed and employed graduates of vocational training and higher education institutions are given the opportunity to reskill or upskill to enhance their opportunities for decent and sustainable employment through combining acquiring additional technical and 21st century (soft/life) skills, with on the job-training (Work-Based Learning).

The third result area on business development aims to enhance access to self-employment. Under this result area young women and men at risk of exclusion from the labour market are supported to establish sustainable micro- or small businesses that are viable in their local economies and generate sufficient income to meet their livelihood needs and improve their individual resilience.

Purpose of this invitation

 Enabel is seeking external expertise to conduct Action Research on the First Employment Facility (FEF).

General Tendering Instructions

Enabel now invites tenders from eligible and qualified tenderers for carrying out these works:

1. This tender is VAT excluded under certain conditions, defined in the tender documents. 

2. Tenders shall be valid for 60 days after the tender closing.

3. Price offers should be stamped and signed and then submitted ONLY online to the following email address: [email protected] before the 09 June 2024 at 04:00 PM. Late tenders will be rejected.

Attachment(s):

1. Tender documents with forms and annexes, Download from HERE 

We look forward to receiving a proposal from you and thank you for your interest in our account.