Préparation a l’investissement pour les tanneries dans le cadre du projet LISEC – pour Solidaridad a Addis Abeba en Ethiopie.

 

 

 

 

 

OBJECTIVE

The overall objective of this assignment is to prepare the tanneries to be investment ready based on the established businesses from recycling of their waste. Products to be generated by solid waste include glue, protein hydrolysis, gelatin and animal feed.

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The main purpose of this assignment is to make the 4 tanneries supported by the project to be investment ready. The consultant will support the tanneries to achieve satisfactory levels of governance, systems, processes, quality of teams and leather waste recycling business’ credibility to not only attract but also secure funding from impact investors.

SCOPE OF WORK

Solidaridad seeks an experienced business and/or financial service provider to do an assessment of the business capacity and performance of target tanneries in Modjo town/region. Based on the result of the assessment, the business service provider will co-develop an action plan with these tanneries to improve their investment readiness, profile, link and follow up with potential impact investors on deals.

Key responsibilities

The following are the key responsibilities

  1. Work with LISEC Project implementation team and the Investment Officer to review and enhance the investment readiness assessment tool for tanneries;
  2. Map out potential impact investors and their eligibility criteria as well as their suitability to meet the needs of the tanneries;
  3. Conduct the investment readiness assessment of target tanneries based on the impact investors’ lenses;
  4. Facilitate and co-develop an integrated action plan based on the tanneries’ business plans and result of the investment readiness assessment;
  5. Prepare and submit the investment readiness assessment report for the tanneries;
  6. Review and finalize the financial model and narrative for the business plans already developed with the tanneries to meet the thresholds of the impact investors;
  7. Build the capacities of the tanneries based on the identified weakness to make them investment ready;
  8. Undertake linkages between potential impact funders and the tanneries as well as follow up on deals struck to ensure they materialize into funding.
  9. DETAILED ACTIVITIES AND DELIVERABLES

The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks;

Steps, Activities and Key deliverable/output

Step 1 – Inception meeting to harmonize views on the expectations, methodologies, tools and timelines – Inception report

Step 2 – Map out potential impact investors for the tanneries and their eligibility criteria as well as their suitability to meet the needs of the tanneries;

Conduct the investment readiness assessment of target tanneries based on the impact investor’s lenses. The assessment will establish the capacity gaps in the tanneries and proposed remedies to make them investment ready

Validation report on the tanneries as well as the mapped profile of the impact investors that encompasses their suitability to the tanneries.An action plan to address the capacity gaps amongst the tanneries

Step 3 – Address the capacity gaps to make the tanneries investment ready through tailored technical assistance per tannery – Outputs as per the identified gaps

Step 4 – Link the supported tanneries to access funding from the identified impact investors. Report on financial linkages as well as evidence of the same

Step 5 – Consolidation, validation and presentation of the final report (both word and power point version) Final approved report

Solidaridad will hold regular consultative and update meetings with the consultant during the period. Whenever a phase has been concluded and report satisfactorily cleared, Solidaridad will approve commencement of the next phase.

CONSULTANCY PERIOD

This assignment will be conducted within a timeframe of approximately 4 months from August to November 2023 (detailed timeline to be established with the Service Provider and the project team).

  1. REQUIREMENT AND SELECTION CRITERIA OF THE SERVICE PROVIDER
  2. The Service Provider should have a strong project management ability and excellent communication skills;
  3. Experience in supporting enterprises to be investment ready and linking them to impact investors to access both debt and equity;
  4. Experience in working with nascent enterprises and managing project implemented by a consortium of partners;
  5. Strong attention to detail in all tasks, creativity and result-orientation;
  6. Excellent organizational skills: the ability to manage, track and follow-up on various efforts and projects;
  7. Excellent written and verbal communications skills, interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity;
  8. Flexible work attitude: the ability to work under pressure within short timelines without compromising quality.

The technical proposal should include the following:

  • Organization Profile (max 1 page) explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;
  • Relevant Experience (max 1 page);
  • Detailed methodology framework with expected deliverables, timelines, man-days, and financial resources required (3-5 pages);
  • Recent CV’s for the team;
  • Company Registration and PIN certificates;
  • Tax compliance;
  • 3 referees form different organizations for which the service provider executed a similar assignment.

Send your application to [email protected] & [email protected] on or before July 14, 2021, at 12:00 Noon (EAT) with the subject as “INVESTMENT READINESS FOR TANNERIES UNDER LISEC PROJECT – FOR SOLIDARIDAD EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA IN ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA”.

Note: Only successful firm shall be contacted. If you don’t hear from us in 2 weeks after the deadline consider yourself unsuccessful. Any form of canvasing will lead to disqualification.