Partnership Agreement for Scale Up Component
Contracting authority: Stichting SPARK
Programme title: Skills Training Education Programme
Components: Scale Up
Country- Region: Lebanon (North Lebanon, Tripoli, and Beirut)
Duration: 9 Months Implementation + 3 to 6 Months Impact Monitoring
The objective is to create jobs through supporting high growth potential SMEs in Lebanon in collaboration with local universities, chambers and business support centers by providing them technical support through peer-to-peer learning, to build advanced business skills and to provide support through action-oriented coaching on main bottlenecks to grown finance and markets to expand their growth-oriented SMEs. Additionally, programme is aiming at providing technical assistance on the access to finance (matched to access loans or investments from financial institutions, such as Micro Financial Institutions (MFIs), banks, angel investors and crowdfunding solutions.) and access to market (creating/establishing new links to relevant local, regional and international markets through networking and matchmaking activities.). This will increase the opportunities to sustain their businesses and create jobs at the end of the programme.
Target Group: The programme targets refugee youth (50%) as well as host community youth (50%), with 50% women participation -
Outcome and Main Outputs:
Outcome: 120 sustainable jobs are created through supporting 60 high- potential entrepreneurs with coaching and access to finance- and markets to get their business started.
Output:
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- Business owners’ skills are improved to expand their growth-oriented SMEs
- Business owners’ access to finance and markets to expand their growth-oriented SMEs is facilitated
Selection criteria for high-growth potential SMEs is going to be developed in consultation with SPARK’s technical team.
How to apply
Submit technical and financial proposal by email to [email protected] Using the title – Start Up - Skills Training Education Programme – Regional Jobs Programme.
For any enquiries please contact [email protected]
The proposal (in English) must detail the following:
- A brief description of the expertise/portfolio for the applying agency in the field of curriculum development, training and, placements,
- Details why the applicant agency is a good candidate for this partnership based on the project,
- Proposed dates / duration for implementing the program, (Detailed time plan) in Excel Format as an Annex
- Detailed implementation plan, (Objectives, results/ outcomes & indicators/ outputs) (Detailed time plan) in Excel Format as an Annex. It should cover the indicators (outcome, output and activity level) given in this ToR.
- Monitoring and evaluation plan and description of the monitoring system – Including M&E SoP ( if available)
- Project team structure, roles and responsibilities,
- Communication plan and activities, - as an Annex to Proposal
- Estimated efficient budget with breakdown in detail that will be provided by SPARK.
- Applicants have the flexibility to submit proposals for either the comprehensive project implementation in full components or patially for specific/certain activities, that suits their organizational capacity/expertise.
