Providing Business Advising Services for Entrepreneurs

G.CD.SPCD.132.2023

Providing Business Advising Services for Entrepreneurs

MA’AN is an independent Palestinian development and training institution established in January 1989, registered by law as a non-profit organization. The main office is located in Ramallah, and the other branch offices are located in Gaza and Jenin. MA’AN's work is informed by the necessity of creating independent, self-reliant initiatives that lead to the development of human resources for sustainable development, which incorporate values of self-sufficiency and self-empowerment.

MA’AN, funded by AECID, is implementing a project entitled “Enhancing Community Resilience in Bait Lahia” which aims to enhance the resilience of the vulnerable communities of Bait Lahia by achieving enhanced access to essential services, job creation, and gender equality. One of the project outcomes is enhancing access 50 female and male youth to economic opportunities supporting sustainable income generation. This includes several outputs:

• A training program on entrepreneurship and youth empowerment targeting the partner CBO in Bait Lahia.
• Internship opportunities to two female fresh graduates in the field of business management.
• Practice-based and gender-sensitive entrepreneurship training, coaching, and mentorship program involving 50 female and male youth.
• Seed funding to 10 female and male youth entrepreneurs (five grants) to establish their own businesses.

Within this project MA’AN Hub is also, implementing incubation activities with target audiences in Bait Lahia in cooperation with Future Development Committee “FDC”.

The consultancy aims to assign advisors with deep experience in business development and services to the local market to provide mentorship services as part of the incubation program, targeting 10 small innovative concepts in order to develop their prototypes.

In this particular call, we are seeking a business advisor who will work for 80 hours divided into 10 groups (working one-on-one) towards developing a business plan for the incubated businesses to prepare their right prototype and business concept and get them ready to engage the local market.

Interested consultant Individuals Only should review the full ToR for this consultancy and can get a copy from it from MAAN-Gaza Gaza strip starting from 07th June 2023  –14th June 2023  and submit offer in two sealed envelopes; one for the technical offer and another one for the financial offer by 15th June 2023  (before 02:00 pm) at MAAN Office Gaza-Haidar Abd Al Shafi Square- Al Motaz 2 Building –Ground Floor- Next to Blood Bank Building Tele 08- 2823712

• The awarded consultant of this offer will be required to pay for the cost of this advertisement.
• Financial Offer must be in Euro excluding VAT
• service provider must provide Valid deduction at Source certificate.