Foundation for Youth Initiative is currently supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) or grantees including smallholder farmer cooperatives and women and youth-led social enterprises in South Sudan. The target enterprises invest in locally-driven strategic commodities such as maize, peanut, sesame, sorghum, cassava, vegetables, coffee, gum arabic, Shea-butter oil, and beehive keeping with the emphasis on value addition chain development.
Beyond the fundamental vision and mission of Foundation for Youth Initiative, which is: to creatively cultivate sound optimism and sustainably based community development and to connect people with services and opportunities necessary to achieve sustainable community development in South Sudan, it is predominantly infused working capital to the grantees to improve their production capacity, operational capabilities, good governance, and financial management system so as to generate revenues, improve incomes, create jobs, and delivery of basic services in the country.
Viewed in collective, these activities play vital roles in fostering a sustainable local economy and contributing to the social development of the country. For this purpose, it intends to work not only on supporting SMEs on production, governance, and management/administration but also to assist its members to share reliable information, technical advice, market linkages, and access to agricultural inputs.
It is in this context that these terms of reference (TOR) are situated, which aim to recruit the services of an expert that is able to help develop a blueprint for a 5-Year SMEs digital media engagement strategy. This will be based on the analysis of the existing situation and clarity of direction necessary for the creation of a community of practices that knits entrepreneurs, farmer cooperatives, small and medium enterprises with other stakeholders together, their peers and outputs for enhancement of social capital, nurturing new knowledge, stimulation of innovation and sharing business best practices. This must be accompanied by a simplified manual of procedures adapted to the core activities of the Foundation for Youth Initiative.
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