Request For Expression Of Interest: Technical Partner For The Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works Dialogue Series on Dignified And Fulfilling Work

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The Mastercard Foundation is seeking a technical partner (or consortium of partners) to support the rollout of the next editions of the Young Africa Works Dialogue Series during 2025. The objective is to onboard a partnership that can provide technical, operational and implementation expertise in knowledge mobilization, stakeholder engagement, hosting youth-led intergenerational dialogue, event management, and post-event outputs to ensure the successful execution of the dialogue series.

Submissions are open from October 3, 2024 and close on October 18, 2024.

THE YOUNG AFRICA WORKS DIALOGUE SERIES ON DIGNIFIED AND FULFILLING WORK

The Young Africa Works Dialogue Series is the Mastercard Foundation's evidence-to-action dialogue model that offers a youth-led space for action-oriented intergenerational dialogue between young entrepreneurs and key public and private sector leaders. Together, they examine dignified work access barriers, co-create solutions, and galvanize ecosystem commitments, investments and policy shifts to especially enable youth-led entrepreneurship as a pathway to sustainable dignified and fulfilling work. Following a successful inaugural edition of the Dialogue Series in Ghana in 2024, the Foundation is looking to execute additional editions in 2025, in the runup to the Young Africa Summit in 2026.

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The Mastercard Foundation is seeking a technical partner (or consortium of partners) to support the rollout of the next editions of the Young Africa Works Dialogue Series during 2025. The objective is to onboard a partnership that can provide technical, operational and implementation expertise in knowledge mobilization, stakeholder engagement, hosting youth-led intergenerational dialogue, event management, and post-event outputs to ensure the successful execution of the dialogue series.

YOUR ROLE AS A PARTNER

The partner's role is to enable an agreed number of action-oriented dialogues between young entrepreneurs and public and private sector ecosystem actors on youth aspirations for dignified and fulfilling work and the required conditions for youth-led entrepreneurship to flourish as a pathway to dignified work opportunities.

SCOPE OF WORK

The partner will be responsible for supporting the Mastercard Foundation in the following strands:

Strand 1: Pre-convening - Knowledge and Stakeholder Mobilization

Strand 2: Pre-convening - Logistics and Event Management

Strand 3: Execute the Convening

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Key selection considerations include:

YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST - WHAT TO SUBMIT

Please submit the above in one (1) PDF file.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

WHEN AND HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Submissions are open from October 3, 2024 and close on October 18, 2024. Expressions of interest should be submitted electronically to ndenteh@mastercardfdn.org copy cbooth@mastercardfdn.org by 23:59 on October 18, 2024. The subject line of the email should include "Expression of Interest for Young Africa Works Dialogue Series Technical Partner".

For any questions, please contact the above contacts by October 15, 2024.

MATERIAL PUBLICATION AND OWNERSHIP

All materials developed under this project will be the property of the Mastercard Foundation. The technical partner/partners will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and transfer all intellectual property rights to the Mastercard Foundation.

THE MASTERCARD FOUNDATION

The Mastercard Foundation is a registered Canadian charity and one of the largest foundations in the world. It works with visionary organizations to advance education and financial inclusion to enable young people in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work. Established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company, the Foundation is an independent organization separate from the company, with offices in Toronto, Kigali, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, Dakar, and Addis Ababa. Its policies, operations, and program decisions are determined by the Foundation's Board of Directors and leadership.

In Africa, the Foundation's Young Africa Works strategy sets out an ambitious goal: by 2030, our work will enable 30 million young people in Africa, especially young women, to access dignified and fulfilling work. Using youth employment as a critical measure of socio-economic progress, we aim to help millions of people find a pathway out of poverty. The Young Africa Works strategy is currently being implemented in seven African countries. The Foundation believes that youth employment is critical to unlocking prosperity, both for youth and their societies.

Learn More About the Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works Strategy

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