Request For Concern Worldwide- AFghansitan
Request For Private Sector Consultancy Engagment Services
Concern Worldwide is leading a consortium with Save the Children and New Way Social and Development Organization for a European Commission-funded project: Advancing Women-led Agro Businesses to Reach Economic Empowerment (AWARE). The project will be implemented in five provinces of Northern Afghanistan―Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz, Jawzjan, and Balkh―over a 48-month period beginning in April 2021. AWARE aims to support the development or expansion of sustainable women-led agro businesses and to foster an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment in urban and rural areas by jointly addressing economic and behavioral barriers. The project primarily supports unemployed/underemployed women and existing women-led micro and small agro businesses with potential for sustainable scale-up. This involves the provision of quality business and agro-asset support as well as competitive conditional cash grants, alongside a comprehensive package of carefully phased trainings ranging from gender and life skills to in-depth agriculture and business courses.
Subject to EC procurement rules, Concern Worldwide is seeking to contract an Afghan private sector consultancy firm to enhance the private sector’s role in the project and be the preferred supplier of private sector development consultancy services to the Consortium through the four-year programme duration.