Invitation to Bid - Economic Empowerment Implementing Partner at the Society for Family Health (SFH)

Posted by Future on Wed 22nd Dec, 2021 - nigeriantenders.com

The Society for Family Health (SFH) invites interested and qualified consultancy firm(s) to tender sealed bidding documents for the following works:

Society for Family Health (SFH) is a Nigerian non-governmental organisation (NGO) working in partnership with communities, government, donors and the private sector for universal health coverage and social justice of all Nigerians. We deploy health system strengthening and total market approaches in a bid to unify the private and public health sectors to scale an Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) offering of good quality to all Nigerians.

Applications are invited for:

Title: Invitation to Bid for the Economic Empowerment Implementing Partner

Preamble

A360’s program for unmarried girls in southern Nigeria, 9ja Girls, makes contraception immediately relevant to what a girl wants. 9ja Girls "Life, Love, and Health" (LLH) classes engage girls first around her goals, provides vocational and life skills, and then positions contraception as a tool to help her achieve those goals. Girls are then supported to receive safe contraceptive counseling by public-sector providers and young providers nested within public facilities. A360’s program for married girls in northern Nigeria, Matasa Matan Arewa (MMA), uses a two-pronged approach that reaches both young married girls and their husbands through targeted one-to-one outreach by female mentors and male interpersonal communication agents. Married girls are invited to join mentorship groups, called the Life, Family and Health (LFH) classes with their peers in cohorts - girls can attend up to four LFH classes.

A360 spent 2020-2021 designing additional components to 9ja Girls and MMA programs - an economic strengthening and enabling environment component, which would provide adolescent girls with the skills, knowledge, and support that they need to pursue their ASRH and economic goals. A360 has completed the design phase for this program and is now looking to implement a 9-month pilot in 2022 across two (2) states - Kaduna (MMA) and Ogun (9ja Girls) - to evaluate the effectiveness of these designs.

Objective of service:

To support the implementation of an economic empowerment / strengthening program pilot for adolescent girls aged 15-19 within Adolescents 360 (A360) Project.

Specific Activities

The specific activities for this service includes (but is not limited to) the following:

Recruit and assign business mentors to facilitate economic strengthening curriculum.
Facilitate the skills-based (hands on) economic strengthening curriculum content with girls who sign up for foundational track alongside those who sign up for advanced track curriculum.
Mentor girls one - on - one or in small groups (group is based on interests, age, etc.) on career path/ business plan. This mentorship is tailored toward each girls/ group needs/interests, to support them bring the skills learnt to life.
Work with adolescent girls receiving the Foundational / Advanced skills curriculum to identify what vocational skills that are marketable and they are interested in. This process should incorporate learning's from a market assessment conducted by Technoserve / SFH.
Identify local entrepreneurs or specialists who can train girls in the skills that they have identified during the classes. As relevant, support girls to establish apprenticeships with local entrepreneurs / business people in the community.
Support girls to form collectives or savings groups - to pool resources for purchasing goods or operate group lending. Support these groups to have established rules, operating procedures and governing structure and provide technical assistance to groups who wish to register a business name.
Support girls to organize a pop-up marketplace event (trade fair) within their communities where they would sell their goods and services. This would include event planning, procurement, creating publicity in the community, and setup as well as engaging community leaders for buy-in and attendance.
Through the marketplace, identify opportunities for girls to be linked to further opportunities for apprenticeship and start-up capital for their businesses.
Set up follow up mechanism, to follow up with girls’ progress and provide technical assistance to girls throughout the pilot period.
Monitor program activities to see when things are or are not working. When things are not working, the partner should bring these to A360’s attention and collectively brainstorm how to shift and adapt programming to improve performance.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for consideration, interested organisations must provide the following details:

Certificate of Incorporation/ Registration of Business Name.
Organisational Profile.
Evidence of audited financial statements for the years ended 2018, 2019 and 2020
Copy of Tax Clearance Certificates for 2018, 2019 and 2020
Evidence of the availability of qualified personnel for carrying out the service (include Curriculum Vitae of technical personnel’s)-maximum 5 pages.
Evidence of previous similar services carried out (to include, Contracts/Service agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, Purchase Orders, Letters of award/engagement, e.t.c.).

Application Closing Date

24th January, 2022.

Submission of Documents

The code "A360/ECO/EMP/PREQ" should be boldly written on the top right corner of the Pre-Qualification Stage submission envelope while the code "A360/ECO/EMP/PROPOSAL" should be boldly written on the top right corner of the Request for Proposal (i.e. for both Technical and Financial proposals) submission envelope. Name of Organisation tendering should also be clearly written on the rear of the two envelopes, failure to do this will lead to disqualification.

The two (2) sealed envelopes should be addressed and forwarded to:

The Head,

Procurement Division,

Society for Family Health,

No. 8 Port Harcourt Crescent,

Area 11,

Garki - (FCT) Abuja.

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