10024964-Sustainable Economic Opportunities for Youth in Turkana West and Lokichoggio

The contract timeline is as follows:

• Contract Start Date: The contract comes into force upon notification of its award, with the anticipated performance period beginning upon contract award. The planned schedule indicates the award of contract and commencement of service delivery are expected by the end of November 2026.
• Contract End Date: The anticipated performance period ends on May 31, 2028.
• Total Duration: The anticipated performance period from the end of November 2026 to May 31, 2028, is approximately 1 year and 6 months.
• Key Milestones and Phases:
• Procurement Procedure:
• Information to tenderers about the result of tender evaluation: Mid-November 2026
• Award of contract: End of November 2026
• Commencement of service delivery: End of November 2026
• General Reporting Requirements:
• Inception report on overall implementation: 2 months after the start of the assignment.
• Interim reports: Quarterly.
• Final report: At least 2 weeks prior to the end of the contract period.
• Work Package 3 Milestones (Assumed timeframe: 37 working days within a 10-week period):
• Submitting of Inception Report: January 2027
• Fieldwork finalised: February 2027
• Learning Workshop conducted: March 2027
• Final report submitted: April 2027
• Work Package 4 Milestones (Assumed timeframe: 80 working days within an 8-month period):
• Submitting of Inception Report: May 2027
• Submission of the draft LED-Plan: October 2027
• Validation of the LED-Plan: December 2027

The core scope of work for this tender, titled "Sustainable Economic Opportunities for Youth in Turkana West and Lokichoggio," involves several key areas.

The Statement of Work summary includes:

• Interpretation of Objectives: Reflecting on the tender's objectives and terms of reference, describing the partner system and its processes, and presenting a technical-methodological concept to complete tasks and achieve set objectives.
• Strategy Development: This includes developing a strategic approach to achieve the objectives outlined in the Terms of Reference (ToRs), building partnerships with relevant actors, implementing approaches for leverage effects and scaling-up measures, and considering environmental and social sustainability requirements.
• Project Management: Encompassing the creation and explanation of an operational plan, coordination with GIZ or the commissioning project, steering or coordination of measures with implementing partners, and monitoring to ensure compliance with project or partner monitoring system requirements.

Core deliverables include:

• Inception Report: This must contain a detailed work plan.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Organizing relevant workshops to engage key stakeholders.
• Validated LED-plan: Including a section focused on youth engagement in the local economy.

Specific work packages and their outputs are:

• Work Package 1 (Inception and Mobilization, Stakeholder Engagement and Awareness, Local Economy Assessment, Visioning and Strategic Priorities, Strategy Formulation, Validation and Consensus Building): Outputs include an Inception report with a stakeholder map, a Stakeholder engagement plan and consultation report, a Local economic profile including a SWOT analysis, a Defined LED vision and strategic priority areas, a Draft LED-Strategy, and a Final LED-Strategy.
• Work Package 2 (Training and Mentorship): This involves delivering 27 training sessions and a mentorship program for trained entrepreneurs, with specific milestones such as presenting a detailed concept with a workplan, holding the training sessions, partially achieving output indicator 3.1, and submitting a final report for WP2.
• Work Package 3 (Outcome Harvesting): This package focuses on outcome harvesting based on agreements to improve socio-economic development in the Turkana West sub-county.

The contractor is also required to specify a monthly lump sum for office operating costs in the country of assignment and run specific workshops and training courses, including guidance and counselling, training for MSMEs and coaches, and outreach and validation workshops, with a fixed budget of EUR 150,000 for workshops.