EOI 2026-56-GB Enhancing Skills and Enabling Financial Inclusion for Young Women in Uganda’s Creative Economy – Partial guarantee financial partner

Reference: EOI 2026-56-GB Enhancing Skills and Enabling Financial Inclusion for Young Women in Uganda’s Creative Economy – Partial guarantee financial partner

Date of this Call for Expression of Interest (EOI): 20 July 2026

Closing Date for Receipt of EOI at ITC/PS: 9 August 2026

Duration of the Expression of Interest: 20 days

Terms of Reference (summary):

Please take note of the following mandatory requirements:

• Acceptance of ITC/UN General Terms and Conditions (Annex B);
• Registration and licensing to undertake financial intermediation in Uganda.
• Physical presence in Uganda: the institution must have a registered office and operational presence within Uganda;
• Capacity and experience in deploying digital lending products or an existing network and active lending relationship with fintechs
• Experience managing donor-funded or blended finance facilities, particularly guarantees.
• Experience lending to micro and small businesses.
• Willingness to lend off own balance sheet against a paper backed guarantee.

ITC Procurement Services invites interested companies to forward their Expression of Interest (EOI) by email before the closing date to:

Procurement Services

International Trade Centre

Palais des Nations

1211 Geneva 10

Switzerland

batt@intracen.org

Website: www.intracen.org

Please indicate your vendor ID number and the reference of this EOI in your response. If not registered with ITC/UNOG or UNGM, please follow the Procedure for Registration as Potential Vendor at www.ungm.org as soon as possible.

ITC reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement at any time during the EOI and/or solicitation process.

Please note that only those companies considered qualified by ITC for this project will be invited to participate in this procurement exercise.

For any further information on ITC, please consult our website: www.intracen.org