The Government of South Sudan has received financing from the African Development Fund toward the cost of the Institutional Support to Good Governance and Capacity Building in Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Project, and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this Grant to payments under the contract for the provision of Grant Management Services for Potential Women Entrepreneurs Groups.
The services involved under this consultancy include but not limited to managing the calls for proposal from the women entrepreneurs, communicating the results of the evaluation of the proposals to the national Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, managing financial and skills literacy programs to the selected groups; monitoring and advising on the management of the implementation of the projects by the women entrepreneurs; and rendering narrative and financial reports to the Grant Management Office at the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in Juba.
The South Sudan Women Entrepreneurs Grant shall contribute to the overall objectives of the GEEM-IG Project to address poverty and inequality as a key driver to socio-economic fragility by strengthening efforts to empower women and increase their participation in economic activities.
The South Sudan Women Entrepreneurs Grant shall be established based on a Results-based management approach, and will set clear objectives and outcomes that focus on the results of the interventions on people and systems, as well as indicators with targets and baselines used to assess measurable progress towards desired results/impact.
Through the financing from African Development Bank, the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, intends to engage the services of an experienced consultancy NGO to manage a grant on its behalf in form of delivering supplies and equipment to eligible women entrepreneurs in four (4) designated zones in South Sudan. This will entail support to entities relevant for women’s economic participation, which will build upon previous interventions by other partners such as World Bank which has previously provided some support that allowed Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare (GCSW) to disseminate grants to a number of women groups who started small businesses in all previous ten states.
Please kindly find attached the copy of the EOI which we advertised on the local news paper and follow the instructions accordingly.
Expression of Interest for Women Grant Management.pdf (910.9 KB)