📋 Tender Overview
Country / region
• Kenya (100.00%)
Sector
• Banking And Financial Services
Education/training in banking and financial services (24081) (20.00%)
• Business And Other Services
Business Development Services (25030) (50.00%)
• Agriculture
Food crop production (31161) (15.00%)
• Fishing
Fishery education/training (31381) (15.00%)
Project activities include: (1) supporting entrepreneurs and businesses to add value to their production in aggregation, storage, processing and logistics; (2) developing, administering and awarding matching grants; (3) assessing, identifying, and facilitating third party investors to provide targeted, mixed loans to the small businesses whose investment readiness has been de-risked by receiving project grants; (4) administering smart incentive schemes to help entrepreneurs acquire climate-smart technologies;(5) facilitating new or improved financial services and products for entrepreneurs; (6) developing, promoting, and administering financial education to entrepreneurs; and (7) engaging policy stakeholders and community leaders in dialogues to promote women’s empowerment and prevent sexual and gender-based violence. The project expects to directly reach 250 small and medium sized enterprises (50% women-led and 40% youth-led at minimum); 30,000 entrepreneurs (60% women and 50% youth at minimum); and 100 local organizations.
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved business performance of small and medium sized enterprises led by women and youth; (2) improved business performance of women and youth entrepreneurs; (3) reduced gender and identity-based barriers to business for youth and women in targeted regions of Kenya; (4) improved income security for selected women and youth in Kenya’s lake and coastal zones; (5) increased representation of women and youth at multiple levels of the horticulture, poultry, and fishing industries; and (6) increased capacity of duty-bearers (governments, community leaders, civil society) to implement gender-and-youth responsive economic policies and to combat discriminatory social norms and sexual and gender-based violence.
