Organizational Background
Young Women’s Christian Association in Ethiopia is an affiliate member to World YWCA; an international voluntary membership movement that connects women leading social and economic change in over 120 countries. YWCA in Ethiopia was initially founded in 1962 and reestablished in 2000 then re-registered as Ethiopian resident charity with revised CSO 1113/2019 proclamation under FDRE CSO agency.
YWCA in Ethiopia seeks to improve the status of women and girls and empower through intervening on its core intervention focus areas; advancing gender equality, influencing governance and planning, socioeconomic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, access to education and young women leadership development. Currently, in partnership with African Women Development Fund (AWDF), YWCA is implementing a project entitled ‘Young Women Championing for Economic Rights and Justice to Attain Sustainable Livelihood (YW4SL).”With the objective to enhance entrepreneurial skills sets, access to decent working conditions, financial and business services for 360 young women involved in the informal and small business and transforming into decent working conditions.
Purpose of the assignment
As part of the project YWCA Ethiopia intends to hire a resource person to provide trainings planned as part of project intervention under Young Women Championing for Economic Rights and Justice to Attain Sustainable Livelihood (YW4SL) in Addis Ababa Arada sub city all woreda. Therefore, YWCA Ethiopia invites potential consultancy firm to undertake the assignment.
Scope: In terms of the scope, YWCA wants to delineate the assessment-based type of training, Types of service number of days and type and number of participants.
S.N | Description Of Activity | # days | #participant | Type of participant |
1 | Conduct business development services and mentorship sessions for 360 young women in informal and small businesses | Dependence of service requirement | 360 | Women in the informal sector. |
2 | Train 25 selected young women on policy advocacy and social accountability processes | 3 Full day | 25 | Targeted women in the informal sector |
3 | Support young women to establish saving group and promote the culture of saving | Saving group | 10 | Women in the informal sector. |
4 | Prepare business development service and mentorship manual/guideline | Number of Manual | 1 | One Business development service manual/guideline |
Deliverables of the assignment: The firm is expected to deliver;
Required Competencies: