Tender Notice: Youth Empowerment Social Enterprise Opportunity

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Tender No: KCO/04/08/FY22

Background

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working with children, young people, our supporters and partners. Plan International has been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and is active in over 75 countries across the world.

Plan International has been operating in Kenya since 1982 and to-date continues to work in 10 counties: Nairobi, Machakos, Kajiado, Tharaka Nithi, Siaya, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River, Homabay and Kisumu.

We work with people and partners to:

  • Empower children, young people and communities to make vital changes that tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, exclusion and vulnerability.
  • Drive change in practice and policy at local, national and global levels through our reach, experience and knowledge of the realities children face.
  • Work with children and communities to prepare for and respond to crises and overcome adversity.
  • Support the safe and successful progression of children from birth to young adulthood.

About the Opportunity:

Plan International Kenya, in collaboration with Plan International USA, has an exciting turnkey business opportunity for a social enterprise that is passionate about youth employment in Kenya and equally passionate about accelerating its own business growth. This is part of a global roll-out of the Youth Employment Platform that Plan International USA is pursuing, while also seeking additional investors to join in supporting this initiative.

The opportunity is to utilize a tried and tested Youth Employment Platform implemented in South Africa over the past 6 years. This platform, a WhatsApp & Web based career support and placement tech platform, helps youth gain career advice, apprenticeships / internships and employment whilst simultaneously benefiting employers through a more efficient hiring process and better-quality candidate selections. The Youth Employment Platform, developed by Mintor, is an award-winning chat-based (Conversational Al) innovation, headquartered in South Africa, that has supported nearly 100,000 youth to date. The platform enables a Social Enterprise to expand quickly, at low cost, even with limited knowledge of Information Technology. The only equipment necessary are personal computers and internet access.

Plan International aims to scale the award-winning Al-powered youth mentoring and job placement social enterprise model in the Kenyan market. The successful social enterprise will take the Mintor model, localize it to the labor market conditions in Kenya (via an HCD approach to better support women and disadvantaged youth, as well as employers) and implement it while structuring financial arrangements with the goal to achieve a financial sustainability business model.

Further details for interested enterprises

Interested and qualified enterprises that meet the requirements noted above and can provide deliverables in line with the terms expressed herein are invited to access the full TOR’s at https://plan-international-kenya.org/tender The application must demonstrate a clear understanding of the TOR, a robust methodology and high-quality standards. All relevant documents shall be submitted electronically, in Word or Excel format, in no smaller than 10-point font.

Closing date for submission of complete applications is 18th August 2021.

“Plan International Kenya reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal and is not bound to give reasons for rejection”

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