81304092-Strengthening women in the Jordanian industrial sector

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is seeking a contractor to implement the project "Strengthening women in the industrial sector", which is part of the overall "Green Action in Enterprises" (GAIN) project and "Gender Responsive and Inclusive Politics and Economy in the MENA Region" (WoMENA) project.

The overall objective of the GAIN project is that "public and private actors use instruments to promote a Green Economy". The project consists of 4 outputs:

- Output 1 aims to strengthen the organisational capacity of public sector institutions to implement selected initiatives to promote a green transformation of the Jordanian industrial sector.

- Output 2 aims to improve the facilitation between the industrial and financial sector for green investments.

- Output 3 focuses on strengthening instruments for scaling up resource-efficient and/or circular production in the Jordanian industrial sector.

- Output 4 aims to strengthen instruments to empower women in the Jordanian industrial sector.

The overall objective of the regional WoMENA is to promote and strengthen the voice and agency of women in their economic and political participation in 6 countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.

The project consists of 3 outputs:

- Output 1 Regional and national networks are in a better position to drive changes that would embed gender justice in political and economic life in the MENA region.

- Output 2 The project measures have strengthened the capacity of private-sector and political change agents in the MENA region to promote the political and economic participation of women.

- Output 3 Political and private sector change agents have implemented innovative approaches to strengthening the political and economic participation of women

In this context, GIZ is seeking to commission a contractor to provide a range of specialised Green Business Development Service (BDS) advisory services expertise relating to four packages of services:

(1) Inception Phase Together with GIZ, in Work Package (WP) 1 an effective project and communication structure will be established. Furthermore, BDS providers are to be screened and selected in the inception phase.

(2) Improving of technical capabilities of 5 selected service providers The objective of WP2 is to improve the technical capabilities of 5 selected SPs to provide Gender Diversity Management (GDM) to industrial companies. The SPs will be trained to develop and offer service packages on gender diversity. Moreover, the SPs will be equipped to integrate GDM service packages in its service portfolio to provide those services independently in a e.g. fee-for-service model.

(3) Matching 30 industrial companies with Service Providers The objective of WP3 is to select 30 industrial companies which will be matched with the selected BDS providers for GDM measures implementation. The transparent selection of companies should be organized through a call for participation. The aim of WP3 is that selected and under WP2 trained BDS providers will be offering service packages on gender diversity to the companies.

(4) Strengthening business development capabilities of Green BDS providers The WP4 focuses on developing and implementing an event series targeting female engineers and industrial companies. The contractor will be responsible for the conceptual and administrative planning and implementation of the events. This shall be developed and implemented in close collaboration and coordination with local partners. Another objective of WP4 is to facilitate and promote the matchmaking of female engineers with industrial companies which are engaged in WP3.