Call for Expression of Interest: CEDIS

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. Mercy Corps supports communities – and the most marginalized within them – to emerge from crisis in the face of climate change and build towards a more inclusive and resilient future.

The Catalyzing Economic Development through the Informal Sector program (CEDIS) is a four-year program (2022 - 2026) that aims to improve incomes, working conditions and resilience to shocks and stresses of 30,000 vulnerable young women (70% of whom aged 18-35) in the urban and surrounding rural areas of Bulawayo, Mutare and Harare, through sustainable informal and micro-enterprise livelihoods.

The CEDIS programme has three main outcomes:

(1) Female employees and female suppliers earn more through increased quantity of work or increased rates of pay
(2) Women led enterprises experience improved business performance
(3) Young women and women led enterprises experience an improved business environment.

Mercy Corps Zimbabwe under the CEDIS program is excited to extend partnership opportunities for private sector actors to develop sustainable and scalable business solutions to achieve the overall objectives mentioned above. If you are a private sector actor that is eager to implement market-based business solutions and contribute to creating economic opportunities for women and youth in Zimbabwe, this is for you! The priority sectors of the potential partnership are Waste Management, Agro-processing, small-scale Manufacturing, Financial services, Productive use of Renewable energy and machinery/equipment.

WHO MAY APPLY!

The interested applicants must be legally registered entities in Zimbabwe as a private profit-making company

THE OFFER!

• Selected organizations will receive financial and/or technical support to roll out their proposed business model in the above-mentioned sectors. We aim for a co-investment amount of around 50% or more from each applicant.
• Geographic coverage: Manicaland, Harare, Mashonaland East, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South- Zimbabwe
• Interested applicants are encouraged to request the full RFA document package by sending an email request to the email address zw-procurement@mercycorps.org with the specific subject: - CEDIS-ZIM-RFA-EOI-01