📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Julius Blum GmbH
Country: Kongo Contract type: Economic partnership Project start: 01.07.2025 Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 End: 30.06.2030
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims to transform the cabinetmaking market system in Congo by making it more inclusive, sustainable, and high-quality. This will be achieved through enhanced coordination, practical and relevant training programs, and the empowerment of individuals and organizations at every level from cabinetmakers and MSMEs to cluster organizations and training centers.
Expected results
By the end of the project, the following outcomes are expected:
- 123 new full-time jobs will have been created (3 at the training centers and 120 in the cabinetmaking sector).
- One training center, three clusters, and an inter-cluster network will have strengthened their organizational structures, business models, and sectoral collaboration, actively engaging in public-private dialogue.
- The Wenge CRP-Bois training center will have expanded its capacity to train cabinetmakers, working in collaboration with public and private stakeholders and delivering a certified training program, positioning itself as the country’s reference center for cabinetmaking education.
- 150 existing and 120 new cabinetmakers will have improved their skills in technical, business, administrative, and legal areas, including 45 apprenticeship tutors with enhanced pedagogical expertise.
- 100 local MSMEs will have been involved in the project.
- 290 individuals will have regularly participated in training sessions.
- 60% of participating cabinetmakers will have shifted their attitudes towards gender stereotypes.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Target groups of the project are:
- 120 (80m/40f) new apprentices and interns in the cabinetmaking.
- 150 (110m/40f) existing cabinetmakers from approx. 100 MSMEs
- 3 wood-cabinetmaking clusters (Brazzabois, Ponton-bois, Lek-Bois)
- 20 trainers and TVET teachers
- Staff, board members, and shareholders of Wenge CRP-Bois (reference center for cabinetmaking training).
The Austrian company Julius Blum GmbH and the two NGOs IECD (FRA) and ICEP (AUT) are responsible for the realisation of the project.
Activities
Component 1: Strengthening of private and public wood sector institutions and networks - aims at strengthening the Wenge CRP-Bois’ infrastructure, equipment, organisation, and business model, to become a reference professional resource and training center. It also focuses on enhancing the organisation of the three wood clusters and their sectoral coordination into an inter-cluster, and generate its active involvement in public-private dialogue.
Component 2: Building capacities in the professional resource/training center for the deployment of a short continuous training of cabinetmakers - aims at adapting and certifying a new qualitative and demand-driven cabinetmaking training program, build the capacity of CRP-Bois trainers
