2018-14-GB Youth employment skills in The Gambia

INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE (ITC)

Major Upcoming Business Opportunity Notice

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)

Important: The purpose of this call for EOI is to identify appropriate suppliers who can potentially fulfil the requirements. The present call for EOI does not constitute an invitation to tender. Only suppliers deemed qualified by ITC will receive the invitation to tender.

Reference: 2018-14-GB Youth employment skills in The Gambia

Date of this Call for Expression of Interest (EOI): 26th February 2018

Closing Date for Receipt of EOI at ITC/PS: 13th March 2018

Terms of Reference (summary):

ITC is implementing The Gambia Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), which is a four-year project that aims at supporting youth employment and entrepreneurship to address the economic root causes of irregular migration. It is funded by the European Union (EU) Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.

In this regard, ITC is launching The Skills for Youth Employment (SkYE) Fund to roll-out skills development programmes for youth in The Gambia in 2018. The SkYE Fund is a results-based competitive funding model that ensures the critical importance of training youth to meet existing job needs, or in the case of self-employment, successfully meet market opportunities. In the pilot phase, the SkYE Fund aims to equip 1,000 Gambian youth with market-relevant technical and vocational skills in partnership with local training institutions.

The SkYE Fund is limited to applications from institutions, companies and associations with a presence in The Gambia. A launch event will be held at the Ocean Bay Hotel, Banjul on 7th March 2018. The high-level launch of the SkYE Fund will be followed by an information workshop on the SkYE Fund process and guidance on proposal development in line with best practices and SkYE Fund criteria.

Interested technical and vocational education training (TVET) institutions, private sector companies and industry associations with a presence in The Gambia are invited to attend the launch and information workshop of the SkYE Fund:

Wednesday, March 7th 2018

Ocean Bay Hotel & Resort

Kofi Annan Street, Cape Point, Bakau, The Gambia

09:00 – 12:00 Launch and general information

13:30 - 17:00 Information workshop

ITC Procurement Services invites interested Gambian institutions and companies to forward their Expression of Interest (EOI) to attend the launch event and information workshop by fax or by email before the closing date to:

Procurement Services

International Trade Centre

Palais des Nations

1211 Geneva 10

Switzerland

batt@intracen.org

Telefax: +41 22-730 0900

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.

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