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Company | World Univers... |
Industry | International... |
Category | Consulting |
Location | Prestea & Was... |
Job Status | Fixed Term |
Salary | GHS |
Education | -:- |
Experience | N/A |
Job Expires | Jun 28, 2019 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile WUSC (World University Service of Canada) is a Canadian non-profit organization working to create a better world for all young people. We bring together a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses who share this vision. Together, we develop solutions in education, economic opportunities, and empowerment to overcome inequality and exclusion for youth around the world, particularly young women and young refugees. WUSC currently works in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $40 million. We have over 90 staff in our Ottawa office, and over 200 people overseas implementing 16 development projects in collaboration with donors such as Global Affairs Canada, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Mastercard Foundation and the African Development Bank. Job Description
Background
World University Services of Canada (WUSC) recently contracted an independent consultant to carry out a study aimed at identifying best practices and mechanisms in the field of entrepreneurship development and access to finance in the context of Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality and Wassa East District of the Western Region of Ghana. The study revealed that Entrepreneurs in the intervention area are in need of several business development services for the growth and development of their enterprises. However, access to BDS services was found to be poor across all categories of business development services considered in the study. On average, only 10.0% of entrepreneurs can access BDS in the intervention area. Averagely, only 5.7% of women, 6.7% of young men and 8.4% of young women can access business development services. Young men have the least access to services under market access with only 1.3% of young men currently accessing services under access compared to 2.7% for women and 15.0% for young women. About 98.6% of young women can access market research whereas none of the women and young men are able access market research. Also only 4.5% of women, 3.6% of young men, and 2.9% of young women can access advertising services in the intervention area.
Another key challenge to accessing BDS in the intervention area is lack of access to finance. Most of the business development services are not offered free of charge. These entrepreneurs cannot bear charges associated with BDS services because of the lack of access to finance. In fact, the analyses revealed that lack of access to finance is the biggest obstacle to MSMEs in the intervention area.
The study found out that most businesses in the WAGES project areas are not formalised and so make it difficult, if not impossible for them to access finance. In an effort at enhancing the capacities of SMEs in the WAGES project intervention areas to access finance, WUSC seeks to engage a BDS provider to work with selected Business Associations to formalise and also have business plans.
Objective of the Assignment:
Scope of Work:
The WAGES team will require the Service Provider (SP) to provide Business Development Services (BDS) for 15 Women and Youth SME associations in the WAGES Project intervention areas. Thus, the SP will perform the following specific services:
Key Activities:
The assignment should cover, amongst others, the following activities:
Deliverables:
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