TechnoServe is seeking proposals from qualified consultants for the following scope of work. For information on timeline, application requirements, and evaluation criteria, please review the full Request for Proposals P0022293 here. Please submit your proposal for this consultancy to buy MZ P0022293@tns.org by August 4th, 2023.

Contractor to conduct Market Systems Analysis (MSA) in Mozambique

Reports to: Women in Business (WIN) Program Director
Location: Mozambique, but some work can be conducted remotely
Language: English and capacity to conduct interviews in Portuguese and local languages as needed
Period: August – October 2023
Project Grant/Funding: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

TechnoServe and WIN
TechnoServe is a US-based non-profit organization which works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. TechnoServe has been operating in Mozambique for about 25 years, and is well known for its work in developing inclusive agricultural value chains for farmers and working with urban and peri-urban entrepreneurs.

Women in Business (WIN) is a program launched in 2018 by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and implemented by TechnoServe Mozambique. WIN seeks to help women in Mozambique become more economically empowered by developing solutions where women can benefit. WIN works with carefully-selected partners who can positively influence the lives of women, especially micro-entrepreneurs, through their roles in the private or public sector. The program applies a market systems development (MSD) approach, addressing system-level constraints for gender-transformative impact on the lives of women.

WIN provides time-bound, technical and financial support to partner organizations to develop new ways of working that improve the partner’s business and the lives of low-income women concurrently. Partners also contribute their own resources into these shared initiatives, sending a clear signal of thei intent to sustain improved ways of working well into the future. During the first phase, we worked with 36 partners and impacted 42,050 women.

Objectives of the Market Systems Analysis (MSA)

The contractor is expected to conduct a Market Systems Analysis in Mozambique. While the geographic scope of the proposal is nationwide, several specific geographic areas will be identified to conduct more in depth mapping activities, including one in of the provinces in Northern Mozambique The MSA is mainly aimed at allowing WIN to understand more about:

Extended Target Group
 Key economic activities undertaken by the extended target group and gender dynamics/roles of women within those activities/ value chains
 Access and consumption habits of the extended target group around financial services, equipment, media and management tools and information
 Access and use of other basic digital enabling infrastructure/ tools (e.g. phone network, cell phone ownership, smartphone ownership) of the extended target group
 Key needs (e.g. in terms of information, products, services and support) of the extended target group to achieve economic empowerment
 Key challenges/constraints/barriers of the extended target group to achieving economic empowerment
 Social and gender norms that are barriers to economic empowerment of the extended target group
 Applicability of selected verticals to extended target group

Market actors
 Key market actors in the proposed verticals, whether they are serving the extended target group and their incentives and capacity to do so (Will/Skill analysis)
 Real appetite and capacity of the private sector actors to pay for gender related services
 Whether policies/regulations in the proposed verticals offer incentives for gender inclusiveness of the private sector
 How crowded the proposed verticals are in terms of development programs (and where)
 Potential new entry points and partnerships/interventions to engage the extended target group 

Environmental Impact
 Potential opportunities for positive, regenerative impact on the environment and natural ecosystem in which the extended target group lives and works
Conflict
 Dimensions in which conflict affects low-income women in the Northern Mozambique and potential opportunities for positive program impact
The MSA should cover an analysis of the following market actors:
 Extended target beneficiaries for WIN 2.0 (see above)
 Main market private sector actors (vertical market providers) in the proposed verticals
 Main public-sector actors in the proposed verticals
 Main development programs in the proposed verticals

Methodology should include mainly qualitative primary data collection, participative mapping activities where relevant and desk review. The contractor should ensure a sufficient number of beneficiaries of the extended target group is consulted so that findings can be reliable. Brief quantitative surveys may be conducted if/where needed.

Proposed activities and deliverables
For the selection process, the contractor is expected to share with WIN:
 A technical proposal with the details of the proposed methodology and timelines to conduct the MSA (WIN proposes to use team members for some of the data collection)
 CVs of those involved in the implementation of the MSA
 Example(s) of similar MSA done recently
 Detailed financial proposal (which should disaggregate personnel fees and logistic costs)

The selected contractor is then expected to conduct the following mandatory activities:
 Read key project documents shared by the WIN team (e.g. program proposal)
 Organize a kick-off meeting with the WIN team
 Share with WIN a detailed plan of activities for WIN’s approval
 Review secondary research/ conduct desk review
 Develop tools for data collection (e.g. questionnaires, will/skill matrix, market system maps, stakeholder maps) and share approach
 Work jointly with the program team on data collection and mapping exercises
 Carry out data collection in the field based on the tools developed
 Compile findings and recommendations in a final report
The contractor can propose, in the technical proposal, further activities to be conducted to fulfill the goals of this MSA, such as participatory data collection and mapping activities methods, market systems mapping and others.

The selected contractor is expected to deliver at the end of the assignment a final comprehensive MSA report in English that respects the following:
 Containing activities listed above
 Containing practical recommendations for the proposal for WIN 2.0
 Responds to all objectives listed above in this TOR
 Responds to all goals listed above in this TOR
The contractor is expected to work closely with the WIN team:
 WIN team members will participate in, and lead some, data collection activities, accompanying team members from the selected contractor’s team. For this, the contractor is expected to involve and build the capacity of the team to conduct some of the data collection and mapping activities
 The contractor is expected to host weekly check-ins with the Program Director on MSA implementation status

 The contractor is expected to organize a workshop with the WIN team to present preliminary findings at the end of the data collection phase
 The contractor is expected to organize a workshop with the WIN team at the end of the assignment to present main recommendations and practical steps to implement these.

The contractor may also be requested to present the final MSA report to WIN and SIDA.

Please review this link for further information about this opportunity.