Beschreibung: Requested services: 1. Strategic advice and project management. The contractor will
strengthen the vision, leadership, and ownership of graduation within the SEIPP implementing
partners. The work package also helps to reduce opportunity costs and enables the
core team to re-focus on central SEIPP strategies and technical approaches. Tasks
include: Facilitate the establishment of a functional cooperation structure that promotes
efficient communication and decision-making among the project office, implementing
partners, stakeholders, and the AV. - Facilitating regular strategic workshops, bringing
together all implementing partners to review project progress, discuss challenges,
and plan for future activities jointly. These workshops will serve as platforms for
open dialogue, knowledge sharing, and collaborative decision-making. - Regularly assess
the dynamics of the project context, implementing partners and their collaborative
networks to identify areas for improvement and enhance the overall effectiveness of
the project's implementation. - Contract Management and develop a strategic and organisational
development plan closely coordinated with the implementing partners 2. Training and
capacity development. This work package will support the capacity building of the
implementing partners involved in the graduation approach implementation. This includes
supporting the SEIPP ecosystem and its innovation capacity to offer top-level services
to beneficiaries by ensuring trainings are market-led and of quality, also focusing
on soft skills like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and participation, and
ensuring the highest didactical standards of training programs. The specific tasks
include: - Assess the capacity needs of the graduation ecosystem and its actors and
help GIZ prioritise interventions and support services. - Design and implement training
programs customised to address the specific needs and challenges faced by implementing
partners. - Train women and youth in IDP and host communities on life skills (literacy
and numeracy, health and nutrition, FGM, self-confidence and financial literacy).
- Develop and disseminate a range of user-friendly and inclusive training materials,
guides, and resources to supplement the learning process and provide one of the preconditions
for sustaining and expanding SEIPP beyond the project duration. - Continuous coaching
and supervision to build the capacity and ensure that implementing acquire and apply
relevant skills and knowledge, mentor established VLSAs in IDPs and host communities
3. Employability and linkages with job markets. This work package will increase the
likelihood of sustainable graduation by empathising with the market systems, including
future employers, buyers and business partners in the various sectors in Garowe and
other parts of Somalia. Rather than focusing on graduate"s employability only, the
goal is to develop partnerships with employers, companies and industries, advance
placement services and technical support, which can benefit the target groups. Tasks
include: - Map the market system and develop strategies to increase the responsiveness
of market systems (labour, products, and services), thus improving graduation sustainability
(lower dropouts, scalable market linkages). - Improve sector-specific capacities of
the target group (farming/home gardening, hospitality sector, mechanical skills, etc.)
to increase the likelihood of onboarding beneficiaries. - Provision of Start-up Kits
for youth and women in IDPs and host communities. - Increase the use of new job and
micro-enterprise/small and medium enterprises targeting and placement tools (and thus
enhance labour mobility, sustainable reintegration). 4. Monitoring, evaluation, and
learning. The primary objective of this work package is to document results based
on the indicators and related to the findings of the baseline study, as well as to
contribute to the SEIPP Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system. Further, the work
package will capture success stories, learn from failures, and promote organisational
learning (including documentation of the adapted Graduation Approach for Somalia)
within the SEIPP project. This objective includes encouraging innovation to improve
performance and help advance SEIPP from a pilot to a scalable approach to operate
in similar contexts in future. It also facilitates continuous learning and improvement
throughout the implementation of the graduation approach. Tasks include: - Develop
and implement robust data collection tools that align with the project's objectives
and requirements, facilitate efficient data gathering, ensuring the availability of
accurate and timely information for monitoring progress and measuring outcomes. -
Collect and analyse relevant quantitative and qualitative data, providing data-driven
insights to inform evidence-based decision-making, enabling SEIPP to refine strategies
and optimise project outcomes. - Quantify the effectiveness of the graduation approach
in Puntland, including cost-benefit analysis by beneficiary category (IDP/host/age),
sector and type of income generation (employment/entrepreneurship). - Support open
and deep organisational learning throughout the implementation process and encourage
continuous improvement, knowledge-sharing, and best practices dissemination among
all stakeholders. - Find ways to increase inclusiveness for women, youth, and people
with special needs, and provide a knowledge base for advocacy, institutionalisation
and scaling the Graduation Approach.