81313486-Implementation Partner for develoPPP Ventures calls for applications in Africa from 2025 onwards

Services to be provided by the contractor:

The program develoPPP seeks to continue investing in SBGs across Africa. In 2025 four calls for applications for Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and as an option an additional country, to be defined, shall take place. The calls for applications take place bi-annualy for six weeks at the end of a quarter. A new call for applications will be announced on the develoPPP (Ventures) website prior to the start of the application window and is open to all start-ups that meet the conditions for participation. With an expected minimum of one call for applications per country and year, the program plans to select and support approximately 5 local businesses per call and country, with a co-funding grant of EUR 100,000 each, with an option of investing another tranche (Top-up) at a later stage after reaching certain milestones. In addition, customized technical assistance for each grant recipient will be provided.

The successful bidder, (for future reference implementation partner) will support the activities of develoPPP Ventures in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, as well as the optional roll out of the program to additional countries, by handling an expected minimum of four calls for applications for these countries starting in the 2nd quarter of 2025 with follow-up activities until 2026.

The implementation partner should be the key contact person on the ground. Tasks to be performed by the implementation partner are particularly the marketing and targeted sourcing of the new funding opportunity to relevant actors within the local/regional start-up and investor ecosystem as well as to other relevant stakeholders and multipliers in order to assure a sufficient number of appropriate applicants; providing further information or clarification in case of inquiries by local/regional actors and interested SBGs; organizing the call for applications together with GIZ, using the develoPPP-website as information channel; making a pre-selection of the applications received; preparing a shortlist based on a selection criteria grid provided by GIZ and supporting a pitching event for the pre-selected SGBs with GIZ. Moreover, supporting GIZ with applying a sound due diligence of the final candidates selected after the pitching event, including conversations with local and regional start-up ecosystem experts and investors. After final selection, each SGB signs the funding contract with GIZ; the implementation partner defines together with each SGB their needs for technical assistance (TA) and coordinates the TA by contracting the relevant TA-providers. It is possible that certain TA-components can be provided by the implementation partner itself in case of available inhouse expertise. The implementation partner must keep regular contact to the supported ventures, oversea their progress, be responsible for monitoring and reporting to GIZ as well as addressing and organizing the TA-needs of the ventures. Furthermore, the implementation partner will support the selection of suitable top-up candidates based on the companies" progress, growth prospectives and availability of additional matching funds.

To sum up, the overall duty of the selected implementation partner will be to support the implementation of develoPPP Ventures on time, and in line with program budget and agreed parameters (to be agreed at the inception meeting) while maintaining clear communication with GIZ and providing periodic reports on the key program milestones as well as compiling a final evaluation report with an analysis of the achieved impact.