THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
The Mastercard Basis is searching for a technical companion (or consortium of companions) to help the rollout of the subsequent editions of the Younger Africa Works Dialogue Sequence throughout 2025. The target is to onboard a partnership that may present technical, operational and implementation experience in information mobilization, stakeholder engagement, internet hosting youth-led intergenerational dialogue, occasion administration, and post-event outputs to make sure the profitable execution of the dialogue sequence.
Submissions are open from October 3, 2024 and shut on October 18, 2024.
THE YOUNG AFRICA WORKS DIALOGUE SERIES ON DIGNIFIED AND FULFILLING WORK
The Younger Africa Works Dialogue Sequence is the Mastercard Basis’s evidence-to-action dialogue mannequin that provides a youth-led house for action-oriented intergenerational dialogue between younger entrepreneurs and key private and non-private sector leaders. Collectively, they study dignified work entry obstacles, co-create options, and provoke ecosystem commitments, investments and coverage shifts to particularly allow youth-led entrepreneurship as a pathway to sustainable dignified and fulfilling work. Following a profitable inaugural version of the Dialogue Sequence in Ghana in 2024, the Basis is seeking to execute further editions in 2025, within the runup to the Younger Africa Summit in 2026.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
The Mastercard Basis is searching for a technical companion (or consortium of companions) to help the rollout of the subsequent editions of the Younger Africa Works Dialogue Sequence throughout 2025. The target is to onboard a partnership that may present technical, operational and implementation experience in information mobilization, stakeholder engagement, internet hosting youth-led intergenerational dialogue, occasion administration, and post-event outputs to make sure the profitable execution of the dialogue sequence.
YOUR ROLE AS A PARTNER
The companion’s function is to allow an agreed variety of action-oriented dialogues between younger entrepreneurs and private and non-private sector ecosystem actors on youth aspirations for dignified and fulfilling work and the required circumstances for youth-led entrepreneurship to flourish as a pathway to dignified work alternatives.
SCOPE OF WORK
The companion shall be liable for supporting the Mastercard Basis within the following strands:
Strand 1: Pre-convening – Data and Stakeholder Mobilization
Nation Contextual Idea Word Growth: Collaborate on growing a country-specific idea be aware for every dialogue version. Youth-led Focus Group Discussions: Conduct focus group discussions with related younger folks and youth-led organizations for every dialogue version. Data Product/Synthesis: Develop a synthesis information file on the topic or topical focus of every dialogue version. In-country Preparatory Workshop: Set up and facilitate an in-country preparatory workshop for every dialogue version. Agenda Growth and Facilitation Strategy: Develop agendas and facilitation method and assets. It will embrace sourcing expert facilitators or mentors for youth moderators and onboard them. Exterior Visitor Lists: Create lists of related exterior visitors, together with ecosystem gamers outdoors the Basis’s companion community. Choice and Pre-convening Preparations for Younger Folks: Develop choice standards, choose and put together collaborating younger folks and youth-led organizations for his or her participation. Pre-convening Preparations of Anchor Companions and Ecosystem Actors: Put together the Basis’s anchor companions and ecosystem actors with updates, necessities, steering, and tips about greatest engagement practices with younger folks.
Strand 2: Pre-convening – Logistics and Occasion Administration
Scope of Work for Occasion Administration Company: Develop and handle scope of labor for the occasion administration company. Scope of Work for Documentation and Reporting: Outline and handle the scope of labor for documenting and reporting on every dialogue version. Compensation Plan for Younger Folks: Plan for compensation for younger folks collaborating in every dialogue version. Occasion Price range Drafting: Draft the funds for every dialogue version primarily based on nation context. Venue Reserving and Suitability Verify: E-book and examine venues for suitability for every dialogue version. Press Packet Growth: Develop a press packet for every dialogue version.
Strand 3: Execute the Convening
Guarantee Excessive High quality Occasion Execution: Oversee the execution of the dialogue along with an occasions company. Visible and Video Property: Create visible and video property for every version, to be used earlier than, throughout and after the occasion. Narrative, Visible, Photographic, and Video Report: Submit a story, visible, photographic, and video report by the company after every version.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Are you an African-led agency or group skilled in youth-led dialogue design or youth engagement within the coverage house? Do you could have familiarity with African private and non-private sector ecosystem gamers and possess prior expertise and talent in bringing them collectively for dialogue with younger folks? Submissions that embrace robust youth-led partnerships or alliances with related youth-led organizations are extremely inspired. Youth enabling corporations/organizations and youth-led organizations and entities with the outlined experience are notably inspired to use. Qualifying companions are inspired to establish and exhibit how they plan to collaborate with different service suppliers which might be wanted to bolster their capability for key obligations below every work strand.
Key choice concerns embrace:
Robust Observe Document in Youth-Led Dialogue Design: Familiarity with youth engagement and enablement, youth voice and company, particularly in coverage, enterprise/entrepreneurship growth. Ecosystem Stakeholder and Data Mobilization and Engagement: Experience in information mobilization, African private and non-private sector dynamics, ecosystem stakeholder engagement, and the flexibility to facilitate dialogue between these actors and younger folks for coverage influencing. Experience in Coverage Evaluation and Synthesis: Expertise conducting prime quality coverage evaluation and translating proof into concise information merchandise and insights. Youth Partnerships, Outreach, and Engagement: Expertise working with youth-led organizations and interesting younger folks particularly in commerce and financial or entrepreneurship enablement coverage and programmatic discussions throughout the continent and related themes. Expertise in Occasion Administration: Confirmed expertise in managing large-scale occasions, notably these involving numerous stakeholders. Logistical Oversight Capabilities: Robust logistical capabilities, together with venue administration, budgeting, documentation, and cost dealing with.
YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – WHAT TO SUBMIT
A quick (1 web page) institutional profile outlining the group’s related expertise and {qualifications}. An in depth methodology proposal outlining how the group will ship on the important thing duties described below every strand, together with inner and exterior assets wanted and the way the group will combine youth-led partnerships and outreach. Profiles and CVs (max 2 pages) of key staff members who shall be concerned within the venture. Proposed line funds.
Please submit the above in a single (1) PDF file.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Organizational relevancy, expertise, appropriateness, experience, and expertise of proposed staff 10% Expertise in youth-led dialogue design and youth partnerships integration for the project 30% High quality of proposed methodology and method to implement every work strand 30% Public/personal sector ecosystem stakeholder and information mobilization, coverage evaluation and synthesis. 20% The suitability and feasibility of the proposed funds 10% Whole 100%
WHEN AND HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Submissions are open from October 3, 2024 and shut on October 18, 2024. Expressions of curiosity ought to be submitted electronically to ndenteh@mastercardfdn.org copy cbooth@mastercardfdn.org by 23:59 on October 18, 2024. The topic line of the e-mail ought to embrace “Expression of Curiosity for Younger Africa Works Dialogue Sequence Technical Accomplice”.
For any questions, please contact the above contacts by October 15, 2024.
MATERIAL PUBLICATION AND OWNERSHIP
All supplies developed below this venture would be the property of the Mastercard Basis. The technical companion/companions shall be required to signal a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) and switch all mental property rights to the Mastercard Basis.
THE MASTERCARD FOUNDATION
The Mastercard Basis is a registered Canadian charity and one of many largest foundations on the planet. It really works with visionary organizations to advance schooling and monetary inclusion to allow younger folks in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to entry dignified and fulfilling work. Established in 2006 by way of the generosity of Mastercard when it grew to become a public firm, the Basis is an impartial group separate from the corporate, with workplaces in Toronto, Kigali, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, Dakar, and Addis Ababa. Its insurance policies, operations, and program selections are decided by the Basis’s Board of Administrators and management.
In Africa, the Basis’s Younger Africa Works technique units out an formidable purpose: by 2030, our work will allow 30 million younger folks in Africa, particularly younger ladies, to entry dignified and fulfilling work. Utilizing youth employment as a essential measure of socio-economic progress, we purpose to assist thousands and thousands of individuals discover a pathway out of poverty. The Younger Africa Works technique is at present being applied in seven African international locations. The Basis believes that youth employment is essential to unlocking prosperity, each for youth and their societies.
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