REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

The African Development Bank

Immeuble du Centre de commerce International d’Abidjan CCIA

Avenue Jean-Paul II

01 BP 1387

Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire

Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi donor Trust Fund

Email : YEI@afdb.org

1. The African Development Bank, through its Human Capital Youth and Skills Development (AHHD) and under the framework of its Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy 2016-2025 and with particular reference to its newly established Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi donor Trust Fund supported by Denmark and Norway (initial donors to the Fund) hereby invites financial intermediaries (including commercial banks, SACCOs, investment funds, guarantee funds, development banks, and similar financial institutions) which have dedicated facilities for and are committed to providing/facilitating access to finance services for MSMEs/youth-led MSMEs through accompanying capacity building support, to indicate their interest in the following assignment: Capacity building services provision to youth-led start-ups/MSMEs to strengthen their capacity to access and manage funding and/or capacity building services provision to partner financial institutions serving MSMEs/youth-led MSMEs.

2. The services to be delivered under the assignment will be provided by financial intermediaries (including commercial banks, SACCOs, investment funds, guarantee funds, development banks, and similar financial institutions) which have dedicated facilities, existing pipelines of youth-led start-ups/ MSMEs and commitment to provide/facilitate financial products to MSMEs in Nigeria, Mali, Togo, Ghana and/or Zimbabwe. Specific support includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Training for youth-led start-ups/MSMEs to structure their businesses and run bankable projects, which will in turn allow them to access finance; ideally through the same financing intermediary benefiting from the above support;
2. Consultant support/ Technical assistance to increase financial institutions’ on-lending services and products to youth led start-ups/- MSMEs;
3. Process/methodological support to improve financial institutions’ quality of services and capacity to evaluate youth- led start-ups/- MSMEs’ financing requests;
4. Technical/sector specific support to improve financial institutions’ capacity to provide lending services to youth- led start-ups/- MSMEs with a specific sector or technical focus; and
5. Coaching and mentoring of youth-led startups/ MSMEs receiving finance (equity, debts or guarantees) from the financial intermediary. These interventions should lead to enhanced capacity of youth-led start-ups/MSMEs to access and manage financing and/or financial partners to better serve their youth-led start-up/MSMEs clients in accessing financing and increase their support to youth-led start-ups/MSMEs.

3. Interested eligible financial intermediaries shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to provide the services (documentation, references for similar services, experience in comparable assignments, availability of qualified staff, etc.). In addition to these documents, financial intermediaries are requested to provide the following information:

1. Confirmation that your organization is registered with authorities in one of the Bank’s Regional Member Countries;
2. Confirmation that your organization has been in existence for more than five years;
3. Your organization has not been blacklisted by authorities, donors etc;
4. Indication of a pipeline of potential youth-led start-ups/MSMEs; and
5. The completed financial intermediary screening questionnaire in Annex to this Request for Expression of Interest

4. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Procurement Policy and Procedures for the Recruitment of Corporate Consultants. It should be noted that interest expressed by an ESO does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include it in the shortlist.

5. The estimated duration of services is twelve months (12) but not later than 31^st of August, 2020, and the estimated starting date is 1^st of September, 2019.

6. Interested ESOs may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours: between 09:00 – 12:30 and 14:00 – 17:00 local time.

7. Expressions of interest must be received at the address below electronically (by email only) no later than 17:00 GMT on August 24^th, 2018. Expressions of interests must specifically mention: Capacity building services provision to youth-led start-ups/MSMEs to strengthen their capacity to access and manage funding and/or capacity building services provision to partner financial institutions serving MSMEs/youth-led MSMEs to improve their capacity in serving MSMEs/youth-led MSMEs clients.

Email : YEI@afdb.org

JOBS FOR YOUTH IN AFRICA

Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund

Powering growth of transformational youth led-businesses

YOUTH ENTERPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MULTI-DONOR TRUST FUND INITIAL APPLICATION SCREENING FOR FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

ONLY Financial Intermediaries (i.e. banks, financial institutions, guarantee funds and similar institutions which lend directly or facilitate lending to MSMEs and startups) are invited to complete the application process below. Please note that financial intermediaries eligible for the Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Trust-Fund (YEI MDTF) must provide capacity building support or training to MSMEs or financial institutions. The funding provided by the YEI MDTF to Financial Intermediaries is only for capacity building purposes of MSMEs and or partner financial institutions served by a financial intermediary. The YEI MDTF support to a financial intermediary is a technical assistance grant and should not be used as a lending instrument.

Please complete all applicable questions.

1. Do you lend directly to start-ups and/or MSMEs or faciliate lending to start-ups and MSMEs? Check only one. 

• Yes
• No 

2. Which criteria is applicable to your financial organisation? Please select all the relevant option(s) from the following: 

1. Organisation has been in existence for less than three years;
2. Organisation not registered with authorities;
3. Organisation supports less than 10 start-ups and/or MSMEs;
4. Organisation is on a black list (e.g. authorities, donors, etc…);
5. None of the above

1. ORGANISATION BACKGROUND 

1. Please enter the country in which your organisation is registered?

2. Does your organisation directly work with start-ups or MSMEs in these countries? Check all that apply.

• Ghana
• Nigeria
• Mali
• Togo
• Zimbabwe

3. Please indicate your organisation type. Select only one.

• Commercial Bank
• SACCO (Savings and Credit Cooperative)
• Government institution/agency
• Financial Institution
• Investment Fund
• Monetary Financial Institution
• Hire purchase (Leasing)
• Guarantee Fund
• Development Bank
• Non-Governmental Organisation
• Other, please specify below:

4. Has your organisation ever filed for bankruptcy? Select only one.

• Yes
• No

5. How long has your organisation existed? Select only one.

• [less than <3 years]
• [3-6 years]
• [7-10 years]
• [>10 years]

6. How many start-ups and/or MSMEs are currently receiving long term funding from your organisation or from financial intermediaries that you support? Select only 

• [less than <50]
• [51-100]
• [101-150]
• [151-200]
• [201-250]
• [more than >250]

7. What type of existing network linkage creation programmes does your organisation have? Check all that apply. 

• Market access
• Access to finance
• Entrepreneurship network
• Product innovation, standards and certification support
• Private sector linkage
• Mentorship and business coaching
• Other, please specify below: 

1. GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 

1. Does your organisation have a Board of Directors (or equivalent)? Select only one. 

• Yes
• No

2. What is the size of your current annual budget for capacity building? Select only

one.

• [less thank or equal to <$5,000]
• [$5,000 – $15,000]
• [>$15,000 – $35,000]
• [>$35,000 – $50,000]
• [>$50,000 – $100,000]
• [>$100,000 – $150,000]
• [>$150,000 – $250,000]
• [more than >$250,000]

3. Please indicate all the current sources of funding for your annual capacity building budget. Check all that apply.

• Revenue
• Membership contribution
• Government subsidy
• Donation
• Grant
• Other, please specify below:

4. Does your organisation have experience in managing donor-funded projects/programmes? Select only one. 

• Yes
• No

5. How many employees does your organisation currently have? Select only one.

• [<5]
• [6-10]
• [11-15]
• [16-20]
• [21-30]
• [>30]

6. Does your organisation have a full-time financial manager? Select only one.

• Yes 
• No

7. Does your organisation have monitoring, evaluation and reporting tools, including the staff necessary for reporting on performance of start-ups and/or MSMEs and or supported financial partners serving start-ups and/or MSMEs? Select only one.

•  Yes
• No

1. STANDARDS ASSURANCE AND NETWORKING

1. Does your organisation belong to any accredited enterprise support organisation network? Select only one.

• Yes
• No

1. COMMUNICATION

Please enter your any of the following for your organization in the box below (your website address, Facebook page, Instagram and/or Twitter handle, etc…)

Contact Person Information

Full Name

Function in Organisation

Email Address

Telephone Number

(Including country code)

Organisation Name

Organisation Country

(Select only one)

• Ghana
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Togo
• Zimbabwe
• Other, please specify below: