REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 BP 1387, Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ECAD)
E-mail: k.badirou@afdb.org / Telephone: +225 20264373
The goal of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development- https://www.afdb.org/en/. Accordingly, the Bank has sharply focused its Ten Year Strategy 2013-2022 through its High Fives .
The Bank hereby invites Korean Consulting Firms to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: African Officials Training Program on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME): “The assignment”.
The services to be provided under the Assignment are essentially to: (i) build the capacity of selected agripreneurs in Africa; (ii) design relevant training materials specifically focusing on African Officials Training Programme on SME Policies; (iii) impart appropriate knowledge to a network of African SMEs specialists on the Korean SMEs model with a view to applying this strategy to promote and establish similar approaches in their own countries ; (iv) design innovative approaches and tool kits for enhancing SME competitiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability (v) facilitate trai ning and coaching to selected agrepreneurs (vi) bridge the gap between SME models and “real life implementation”; and (vii) carry out respective exercises and presentations on the SME models.
Thus, under the supervision of the African Development Institute (ECAD), the consulting assignment will be undertaken in line with the implementation of the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) action plans and other various activities endorsed by the KOAFEC Consultative Group, including knowledge sharing on Korea’s economic development experience. The training is expected to improve participants’ knowledge on SME models, increase the number of specialists and encourage youth’s participation in agribusiness across the continent.
Under the supervision of the ECAD Task Manager, the Assignment will entail:
- Understanding and providing comments on the Terms of Reference of the Assignment.
- Developing detailed content and work plans on how to conduct the assignment.
- Facilitating the Korean SME models training and reporting with a focus on agriculture
- Developing a clear timeline, methodology, tasks/activities, outputs, outcomes and detailed workshop reporting with a post implementation plan and deliverables .
- Preparing and researching relevant SME models and case studies for the entire program.
- Designing a learner centred and user-friendly training modules on building agrepreneurs capacity.
- Drafting training manuals, framework and guidelines on agribusiness
- Validating all the deliverables with the Bank
- Submitting final deliverables including a final report by the 30th of November 2018.
- Undertaking any other tasks and deliverables deemed relevant to this assignment.
The African Development Institute exclusively invites Korean Consulting Firms to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested eligible consultants shall provide information on their relevant qualifications, experience and proven capacity demonstrating their ability to provide the services (documentation, references for similar services, experience in comparable Assignments, availability of qualified staff, etc.), and an approximate budget.
The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Procurement Policy. Please, note that interest expressed by a consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include it in the shortlist.
The estimated duration of services is to not exceed Ninety (90) days and the estimated starting date is 15 October 2018.
Interested Consulting Firms may obtain further information at the address below during the
Bank’s working hours: 09:00 to 17:00 hours.
Expressions of interest must be received at the address below no later than 9 August 2018 at 17:00 hours local (Abidjan) time and specifically mentioning “African Officials Training Program on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)”.
To the attention of:
Mrs. Kamaria Badirou Kwamina
African Development Institute
African Development Bank
Siege de la BAD, Rue des Banques
01 BP1387 Abidjan 01
Côte d’Ivoire
Tel.(office): +225-20264373
E-mail: k.badirou@afdb.org
