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- Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor
- Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level.
- Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the following areas: product, market access and business practices.
- Taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality)
- Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts.
- Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out.
- Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
- Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
- Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase
- Work package 1: Sample identification, design and piloting of survey instruments, supervision of data collection in enterprise survey, drafting and finalization of needs assessment report, validation of SME needs with stakeholders, quality assurance of the service packages, supervision of the piloting of the service packages, drafting of process evaluation report.
- Work package 2: Development of materials for the call for technical support proposals, development of criteria for the ranking of the technical support proposals, evaluation of the technical support proposals and ranking of applicants, selection of treatment groups and control groups by randomization in collaboration with the impact evaluation implementers, development of a wave-specific technical support plan detailing which SME receives which technical support services.
- Work package 3: Supervision of the delivery of technical support services to enterprises, development of an evaluation report.
- Work package 4: Management of the implementation of the concept on integrating and strengthening of local sector structures and knowledge transfer.
- Work package 5: Moderation of 1-day launch workshop with information for sectoral stakeholders, 1-day summary workshop after the implementation of the first wave of the technical support fund, drafting of the summary report of SME conference.
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