Description

Women play a crucial role in the agriculture and tech ecosystem in Africa, yet their contributions often suffer from a lack of visibility and recognition. They may also remain on the margins, further removed or isolated from traditional support and investment ecosystems. Digital Africa is looking for an implementing partner to identify eligible startups with female founders for co-designing hackathons and organising several events to support women in the agriculture and tech ecosystem with a focus on data, data sharing and AI development challenges. In concrete terms, the main actions are : Lot 1: Identifying eligible startups with female founders to co-design hackathon's challenges Lot 2: Organising networking events for women in Agritech Lot 3: Designing capacity-building sessions (bootcamps, workshops, etc) tackling Data Sharing and AI models in the project's sectors Lot 4: Supporting the organisation of thematic sessions linked to AI 4 Startups thematic during ecosystem events Allocation of the tender: Each lot could be managed by a different service provider, based on a batch approach. In this case, please precise in your proposal the lot you can manage, the possible location from the global scope and also the budget by event. - The service provider can either respond from one to to all the lots. Even if you candidate for all the lots, the proposal will be considered by lots, which means you could be selected for a part of your proposal. - Digital Africa can select several service providers for the same lot, in particular if it allows to have events in different countries from the scope. - The service provider is not required to cover the entire geographical scope, but each event must take place in one of these countries.