Call for Proposal for Local Training Service Provider to conduct Capacity Development Programme Ministry of Trade and Industry Republic of South Sudan, under the JMSE Project

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00105603 – Trade Capacity Building Project

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Call for Proposal Template
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Workplan

Overview

The Republic of South Sudan, with support from UNDP and the African Development Bank, is implementing the Job Creation Through Youth- and Women-led Micro and Small Enterprises (JMSE) Project. The Project seeks to strengthen entrepreneurship, employment creation and the enabling environment for youth- and women-led enterprises.

Component 2 of JMSE supports institutional and individual capacity development within the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI). An Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment and a Capacity Development Plan have identified priority needs across leadership, management, trade and industrial policy, enterprise support, regional and multilateral trade, planning and statistics, financial management, procurement, human resources, gender mainstreaming, digital capability and institutional systems.

The Capacity Development Programme is now moving into implementation. UNDP therefore intends to engage a qualified local training service provider with suitable facilities, relevant programmes, experienced trainers and demonstrated capacity to deliver high-quality learning for public-sector officials. A local partnership is expected to make training accessible to a larger number of officers, strengthen national training capability and support the long-term sustainability of capacity-development investments.

1. Objective of the assignment

The overall objective is to establish a results-oriented partnership with a competent local institution to design, customise and deliver practical capacity-development support that strengthens individual performance and institutional effectiveness within MoTI. The specific objectives are to:

1. Strengthen officers’ core competencies in public administration, leadership, ethics, communication, interpersonal relations, presentation skills, digital literacy and effective workplace practice
2. Improve organisational capabilities in strategic and operational planning, performance management, change management, human-resource management, public financial management, procurement, project management, monitoring and evaluation, gender equality and social inclusion
3. Translate learning into improved systems, behaviours and work outputs through appropriate workplace application and follow-up support, and

1. Build sustainable local capacity through reusable learning materials, knowledge transfer and the preparation of selected Ministry personnel to support continuing staff development.

1. Deliverables/Outputs

The selected service provider will be expected to achieve, at a minimum, the following outputs. Applicants should propose the detailed methodology, sequencing, level of effort, delivery schedule and performance indicators through which these outputs will be achieved:

1. A technical proposal illustrating the institution’s understanding of the assignment, proposed work plan, quality-assurance arrangements, risk-management measures and results framework.
2. Competency-based curricula, facilitator guides, participant materials and assessment tools customised to MoTI’s operating context and approved before delivery.
3. Delivery of the approved learning programme to the agreed participant cohorts using appropriate adult-learning methods and accessible delivery arrangements.
4. Complete participant, attendance and assessment records, including baseline and end-line evidence of knowledge or competency change and concise reports for each activity.
5. Structured workplace application and follow-up support that demonstrates how learning is being applied to officers’ roles, directorate work processes and institutional priorities.
6. Knowledge-transfer and sustainability measures, including preparation of selected facilitators or focal persons and handover of editable learning resources to UNDP and MoTI.
7. Periodic progress reports and a completion report summarising results, challenges, lessons, expenditure against outputs and recommendations for continued capacity development.
8. In addition, Service providers should also provide the overall cost of training 25 officers for 1 week (5 days) which should include facilitation fees and logistical costs.