Consultant/ Contractual jobs at ITC - International Trade Centre and Other Companies in Zambia

 
Deadline of this Job: 20 November 2022

BACKGROUND:
The International Trade Centre (ITC) is a joint agency of the United Nations (UN) and World Trade Organization (WTO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. ITC’s mission is to enable small business export success in developing and transition-economy countries, by providing, with partners, sustainable and inclusive development solutions to the private sector, trade support institutions (TSIs) and policymakers.
ITC recognizes that all women have the right to a decent income, employment, fair working
conditions and a choice and voice in shaping their economic context. ITC’s SheTrades initiative works to improve women’s livelihood through trade by scaling up platforms and partnerships for gender equality, expanding support to women in trade and delivering interventions to make value chains more inclusive. Our aim is to ensure that women entrepreneurs and producers benefit from capacity building resources as well as access to key knowledge, resources, and networks.

Objective of the SheTrades Zambia Project
The purpose of the SheTrades Zambia project is to increase the participation of women-led
businesses in trade by improving their competitiveness and strengthening their market and
investment linkages. The project seeks to enable Zambian women to benefit from economic
participation, focusing on agricultural and textiles & apparel value chains. Within the framework of the International Trade Centre’s SheTrades Initiative, the project will work with key public and private stakeholders to address issues that are inhibiting Zambian women from fulfilling their economic potential.
Women in developing countries even those with high rates of entrepreneurship, encounter many challenges in trying to start a business. One of the most challenging tasks for many female entrepreneurs is to raise funds for their ventures. In Zambia, although it has one of the highest proportions of female entrepreneurs on the African continent, a big proportion of Zambian women are still financially excluded.
While currently, multiple institutions engage in diverse gender-lens investing approaches, women entrepreneurs in Zambia are still experiencing difficulties accessing them. Much as many publications focus on investing challenges in the experience of women entrepreneurs navigating the financial landscape and recommendations to advance financial inclusion, but there is a lack of a one-stop repository of suitable funding options for women and how to access those funds. Therefore, ITC

Deadline of this Job: 23 November 2022

Request for Quotations to Supply Medical Supplies in Vubwi
‘Heifer International is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with some form of specially abled.
Since 1944, Heifer International has helped more than 36 million families lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.
Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them to feed their families daily, educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene, and other essential resources. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings, and funding small businesses.’
Heifer International Zambia is requesting quotations from registered firms to supply and deliver good-quality medical supplies and equipment.
The Request for Quotations (RFQ) further specifies the list and specifications of all the information that the firms will need in order to provide a formal quote as indicated below:
Lot# Product Name Specifications Quantities
• 1 Drug trolley 4 Drawer – Medicine Trolley 1
• 2 wound dressing trolley With 2 side bowls 1
• 3 Emergency trolley With Multiple Drawers and Power adapter 1
• 4 Hospital beds Plain 1
• 5 Bedside lockers 1
• 6 Bedside chairs 1

Other Vacancies

Deadline of this Job: 23 November 2022

Deadline of this Job: 23 November 2022