FAO: Call for 2024-09 Expression of Interest (EOI) Training of young women entrepreneurs + Agricultural Women Clubs + Capacity Building on Agricultural Cooperatives for Women

FAO Call for 2024-09 Expression of Interest (EOI) Training of young women entrepreneurs + Agricultural Women Clubs + Capacity Building on Agricultural Cooperatives for Women

Request for Expression of Interest

Scope of Services

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), intends to pre-qualify a group of organizations in a timely manner, and potentially solicit proposals from them shortly thereafter.

The services/outputs being sourced are:

The Service Provider will support FAO Moldova to elaborate and apply integrated gender-sensitive approach to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to achieve land degradation neutrality in Orhei and Rezina districts, at the intersection of the Nistru-Coghilnic interfluves on 92,000 ha area in the Republic of Moldova. In order to ensure the sustainability of CSA practices, special attention will be given to the involvement and empowerment of women and young women in this area in the establishment of women cooperatives and agricultural enterprises and by means of sharing success stories during women to women visits. This action will improve women’s abilities in climate resilient practices, resulting in the enhancement of land productivity and increase of crop production.

The Parties acknowledge that no amendments may be made to the LoA to permit activities that fall outside the purpose of the LoA.  

Outputs:   

The Service Provider shall deliver the following outputs:

Output 1. A capacity building package based on the challenges and opportunities for creating women cooperatives is delivered.

Output 2. Young women are trained on entrepreneurship, business management and basic accounting.

Output 3. Women’s entrepreneurship is supported through  knowledge-sharing women-to-women visits and trainings on CSA practices.

All the details and application are available at: 2024-09 Expression of Interest (EOI) Training of young women entrepreneurs + Agricultural Women Clubs + Capacity Building on Agricultural Cooperatives for Women (ungm.org)

The submission deadline is 05 March 2024, 13:00hrs, Budapest time.

All firms that are interested in being added to FAO’s list of potential suppliers and gaining access to FAO’s tender notices should register on the United Nations Global Marketplace – www.UNGM.org website that would also allow you to have access to all the UN Agencies’ tenders and participate in invitations meeting your company’s profile.

For this end please find attached a reference document that would provide you with further assistance in registering and participating in FAO’s online tendering procedures.

Thank you for your kind consideration.

FAO is an intergovernmental organisation with more than 190 members. Since its inception, FAO has worked to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security - defined as the access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life. To achieve its goals, FAO cooperates with thousands of partners worldwide, from farmers' group to traders, from non-governmental organizations to other UN agencies, from development banks to agribusiness firms (further and more detailed information on FAO can be found on the internet site: http://www.fao.org).