Mosul - Youth inclusion through Cultural and Creative Industries (Ирак - Тендер #65562027)

NOTICE AT-A-GLANCE

• Project ID

P178770

• Project Title

Mosul - Youth inclusion through Cultural and Creative Industries

• Country

Iraq

• Notice No

OP00368891

• Notice Type

Request for Expression of Interest

• Notice Status

Published

• Borrower Bid Reference

MOYS. CQS.ME-01

• Procurement Method

Consultant Qualification Selection

• Language of Notice

English

• Submission Deadline Date/Time

Jul 20, 2025 12:00

• Published Date

Jul 17, 2025

• CONTACT INFORMATION
• Organization/Department

Ministry of Youth and Sports

• Name

Dhafar Mahmood

• Address

Baghdad - Iraq

• City

• Province/State

Iraq

• Postal Code

• Country

Iraq

• Phone

07732031927

• Email

dafar.alsanjary@gmail.com

• Website

رقم المشروع: P178770

رقم العقد: MOYS. CQS.ME-01, MOYS. CQS.ME-02 2

التاريخ: 9 / 7 / 2025

تدعو وزارة الشباب والرياضة الشركات المتخصصة ومنظمات المجتمع المدني، ذات الخبرة في مجال الإشراف على تنفيذ مبادرات مجتمعية، إلى التقديم لمشروع "إدماج شباب الموصل من خلال الصناعات الإبداعية والثقافية". يأتي هذا المشروع بتمويل من المنحة الهولندية – برنامج آفاق التابع للصندوق الاستئماني المتعدد المانحين للنزوح القسري، ويهدف إلى تدريب 2000 شاب وشابة. يشمل التدريب وحدتين أساسيتين: الأولى هي التدريب على المهارات الحياتية والدعم النفسي والاجتماعي، والثانية هي تنمية المهارات والتدريب على تقديم مشاريع مهنية خاصة بقطاع الصناعات الثقافية والإبداعية في مناطق محددة من محافظة الموصل.

على المنظمات والشركات المهتمة والتي تجد في نفسها الخبرة والكفاءة اللازمة لهذا المشروع، تقديم ما يثبت مؤهلاتها وخبرتها، بالإضافة إلى تفاصيل الأعمال المشابهة التي سبق أن نفذتها.

الشروط الواجب توافرها في المنظمة التي سيقع عليها الاختيار مع الأوزان المئوية لكل فقرة (درجة التأهل 65%):

• شهادة تسجيل في دائرة المنظمات التابعة للأمانة العامة لمجلس الوزراء – أو شهادة تسجيل للشركات المختصة (سيتم استبعاد المنظمة/الشركة في حال عدم وجودها).
• موقف الشراكة مع الجهات الحكومية، ومع المنظمات المحلية أو الدولية (10%).
• الموقف المالي للمنظمة للسنتين الأخيرتين (10%).
• الخبرة في الإشراف على تنفيذ مشاريع في مجال تنمية مهارات الشباب في مجتمعات ما بعد النزاع، مع التركيز على المهن المحلية المختلفة في قطاع الصناعات الثقافية والإبداعية (25%).
• الخبرة في الإشراف على برامج تدريب الشباب على المهارات الحياتية وتقديم الدعم النفسي والاجتماعي (25%).
• قائمة بأسماء الكادر العامل بالمنظمة مع التحصيل الدراسي لكل منهم والمؤهلات التي يمتلكها (30%).

تقديم الطلبات:

يتم تقديم طلبات الرغبة في المشاركة من خلال ملء الاستمارات المرفقة وإرسالها مع الوثائق المطلوبة إلى البريد الإلكتروني: moys.wbteam.m@gmail.com أو تسليمها إلى العنوان الآتي: وزارة الشباب والرياضة – دائرة التنسيق والمتابعة / قسم الاحصاء، شارع فلسطين قرب ملعب الشعب.

الموعد الأقصى لتسليم الطلبات والأوراق الثبوتية هو الساعة 12:00 ظهراً من يوم الأحد الموافق 20 / 7 / 2025.

ستقوم وزارة الشباب والرياضة باختيار المنظمة الأفضل تأهيلاً والأكثر خبرة بناءً على بيانات الاهتمام المقدمة، وتطلب منها لاحقاً (بعد الاختيار) تقديم مقترح يشمل الجانبين الفني والمالي فيما يتعلق بالمهمة.

للتواصل والاستعلام:

يمكن مراجعة العنوان المذكور أعلاه يومياً من الساعة 9:00 صباحاً حتى الساعة 1:15 ظهراً، أو الاتصال على الرقم الآتي: 07701743792.

المرفقات (يمكن الحصول عليها بالرجوع إلى الموقع الإلكتروني للوزارة https://www.moys.gov.iq/ar أو الموقع على فيسبوك https://ar-ar.facebook.com/pg/Moys.iraq/posts):

• الشروط المرجعية
• استمارات تفاصيل الخبرة والموقف المالي

تفاصيل الخبرة والموقف المالي - علامة التأهل الدنيا (65 درجة)

ملاحظات:

• لا تحتسب النشاطات التي سبقت موعد التأسيس
• في حال وجودها، تذكر الروابط الالكترونية التي تعزز النشاطات المذكورة
• في حال عدم كفاية الجدول لملئ البيانات يمكن استعمال صفحة جديدة

Republic of Iraq

Terms of Reference

Monitoring the Youth Led Cultural Community Initiatives-(25 Community Initiatives)

MOYS. CQS.ME-01

I. Introduction

The Government of Iraq (GoI) through the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) has received a grant in the amount of US$ 3.15 million from World Bank (WB) acting as Administrator of grant funds provided by the Netherlands-funded Prospects program of the MDTF for Forced Displacement.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase access by the targeted youth to at least 2000 young people (ages 18-34) to skills development opportunities, livelihoods, and entrepreneurship support in the cultural and creative sectors, and foster local cultural community development initiatives in Mosul.

The Project consists of three components:

1.1 Project Components: The proposed grant (US$ 3.150 million) is to increase access by the targeted youth to skills development opportunities, livelihoods, and entrepreneurship support in the cultural and creative sectors, and foster local cultural community development initiatives in Mosul.

To achieve its objective, the project will seek to: (i) enhance the employability of the beneficiary population in Mosul – including both host community and IDPs youth – through the provision of technical, life and soft skills development training in the CCI sector; (ii) provide livelihoods support to eligible youth through matching grants and mentoring for micro-entrepreneurship in the CCI sector; and; and (iii) engage youth and women in the design and roll-out of local cultural initiatives to support community cohesion in Mosul.

Component 1: Supporting youth skills development trainings for increased employability and entrepreneurship

The objective of this component is to promote skills development for at least 2000 young disadvantaged women and men in Mosul through soft skills and vocational trainings. Beneficiaries will include the forcibly displaced, returnees, and host community youth of Mosul. The MoYS will benefit from the extensive available data on poor households owned by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) to efficiently target the host community vulnerable youth located in Mosul. In addition to optimizing the achievement of the proposed project’s objectives, this inter-ministerial coordination will support national-led efforts towards sustainable economic empowerment of the poor segments of the population.

Sub-component 1.1: Life skills training and psychosocial support

The soft and psychosocial skills training will be developed coherently with the joint curriculum that will be recommended by PROSPECTS partners, building on partners training modules and tools – including those delivered by NGOs previously contracted by the MoYS under the Promoting the Inclusion of Conflict-Affected Iraqi Youth (P161654) pilot project – while being specific and responsive to the needs of Mosul. A review, assessment and consolidation of relevant life skills trainings previously delivered by the MoYS and other ministries (MoLSA, Ministry of Education, etc.) through other Bank-financed projects, and UN agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, etc.), is underway and will help informing the proposed project’s soft skills curriculum against good international practices at inception stage.

Sub-component 1.2: Vocational trainings specific to the cultural and creative industries sector

The vocational trainings will prepare the youth to entrepreneurship opportunities with a focus on the various local occupations in the cultural and creative industries sector, ranging from visual arts, crafts and intangible cultural heritage (e.g., handicraft, cobbling, tailoring, jewelry, culinary traditions, management of heritage sites, etc.) to design and creative services such as housing-related industries (e.g., furniture, lighting, or home textile). The vocational training curriculum will be informed by a rapid market and needs assessment that will be carried out at the inception phase of the project and will consider occupations that contribute directly or indirectly to the preservation and advancement of Mosul’s cultural heritage, and for which there is a market demand.

Component 2: Fostering youth engagement to revive the local cultural and creative economy and community cohesiveness

This component aims to support 2,000 youth who have benefitted from skills development in engaging in micro-entrepreneurship or in youth-driven cultural community initiatives.

Sub-component 2.1: Start-up support for developing youth micro-entrepreneurship in the CCI sector

The start-up support will be provided in a form of matching grant where at least 1,000 eligible beneficiaries would be required to match a minimum percentage of the grant value with in-kind and/ or financial contribution so as to create a greater sense of ownership, therefore increasing the chances of micro-entrepreneurship success with sustained results beyond the project.

Prior to benefit from the micro-entrepreneurship support, beneficiaries would have been required to: (i) complete the soft skills and vocational trainings under component 1; and (ii) prepare and submit a business plan for the micro-entrepreneurship activity, while ensuring it proposes to support a socially and environmentally sustainable, and economically viable business activity. Selected beneficiaries will be required to match up to 20 percent of the amount of the provided grant so as to increase ownership and commitment to execute the business plan as envisaged. The start-up support will be granted according to the feasibility and prospects for successful implementation of the micro-entrepreneurship proposal. Moreover, proposals that would bring two or more young candidates together would be prioritized and encouraged as it will lead to cost-efficiency, contribute to mutual learning and teamwork, therefore increasing the survival rate of the business activity. Coaching and mentorship will be provided to micro-entrepreneurship beneficiaries before and after they receive their start-up capital to increase chances of success. A gender- and disability-sensitive lens will be applied to ensure differentiated needs of vulnerable young men, women and the disabled are taken into account.

Beneficiaries will be paid through mobile money, receiving a total amount of US$ 1,000 provided in two tranches of 50 percent each, with the transfer of the second tranche being subject to satisfactory progress made of the micro business activity. A Grant Approval Committee (GAC) chaired by the MoYS and comprising members of other relevant ministries, local government representatives, local NGOs and representatives of the business community, will be set up to ensure a fair and transparent selection process of the matching grants beneficiaries.

Sub-component 2.2: Civic engagement through local cultural community initiatives

Activities promoting cultural heritage could include cultural exhibitions and events targeting youth and women in the various occupations related to the intangible cultural heritage (handicraft, culinary traditions, history and management of heritage sites, etc.), small rehabilitation works, cleaning of streets located near cultural heritage sites, awareness raising forums in relation to cultural heritage, etc. The community- and youth-led selection of buildings for small rehabilitation works can include both religious and secular sites such as university/ school buildings, libraries, museums, etc. In addition, community initiatives promoting access to cultural and recreational activities, including musical and artistic events that were banned during ISIS occupation, will be supported in an effort to enhance the cultural diversity of Mosul, empower vulnerable populations and strengthen social cohesion.

Young participants would be eligible provided that they participated in the soft skills trainings and vocational trainings (component 1), following which they will be trained on how to design and implement local cultural community projects. Each group will then be required to complete a small sub-project supporting an activity serving the community needs. The same youth should participate in the implementation of the activity, while ensuring it brings different social groups together. Activities will place an emphasis on empowering cultural heritage and in reviving Mosul"s cultural identity and pride in the aftermath of the devastating conflict and important loss of the city’s memory. Activities promoting cultural heritage could include cultural exhibitions and events targeting youth and women in the various occupations related to the intangible cultural heritage (handicraft, culinary traditions, history and management of heritage sites, etc.), small rehabilitation works, cleaning of streets located near cultural heritage sites, awareness raising forums in relation to cultural heritage, etc.

Component 3: Project Management

This component will support the following activities: (i) project management for the coordination and implementation of activities including some operating costs; (ii) project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities; (iii) preparation of the final evaluation report including lessons learned; (iv) environmental and social risk management; (v) participatory evaluations; and (vi) annual audits.

The overall responsibility for the project coordination lies with the Iraqi MoYS through a Project Management Unit (PMU). The PMU will be responsible for project implementation.

The PMU will ensure prompt and efficient overall coordination, communication, and implementation of Project activities, including: (i) fiduciary aspects of Project implementation (financial management and procurement); (ii) administration of sub-grants for activities of the Project; safeguards screening and supervision; (iv) periodic progress reports; (v) monitoring and evaluations; and (vi) liaising with other implementing institutions on issues related to Project implementation as further detailed in the Project Operation Manual.

The MoYS, through the PMU, wishes to engage through a competitive process (i) a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to conduct activities under the soft skills training and youth-led community development subprojects and (ii) a local service provider to conduct business development trainings.

The current Terms of Reference (ToR) refer to activities and responsibilities under Sub-component 2.2: Civic engagement through local cultural community initiatives

II. Background

Equal opportunity to access quality basic services and jobs is the foundation for a sustainable inclusive growth, peace, and stability in Iraq. However, today many parts of Iraq are affected by poor basic social and economic infrastructure and lack of job opportunities especially among youth, particularly in conflict and liberated areas. Government actions to address these challenges are constrained by the limited presence of and trust in the State. There is an incipient but determined decentralization reform process, which will eventually devolve the responsibility for the delivery of basic services to Governorates. However, it will take some time before Governorates are able to effectively take on this responsibility in a way that makes them accountable to the central government and to citizens. And in the meantime large parts of the country suffer from above challenges which, if left unattended, can generate more conflict and instability.

Youth are particularly subject to the impact of the protracted crisis as many 35 percent of youth aged 18-34 years did not complete primary school or are out-of-school and may constitute a lost generation. The ISIS-Daesh occupation has not only deprived children from attending school due to insecurity or the destruction of school infrastructures, but many were exposed to its ideology of brain wash and extremism ideology which has contributed largely to the social divide of Iraq, thus exacerbating the need for a renewed social contract, rebuilding social cohesion, and providing better opportunity for social and economic inclusion.

International experience shows that an inclusive participatory process could help address these immediate challenges by delivery of knowledge and life-skills to disadvantaged and conflict-affected youth to help build basic social and economic know-how and to create temporary jobs.

The objective of the “Mosul- Youth inclusion through cultural and creative industries” project is to establish an effective and sustainable process to improve the knowledge and the economic status of disadvantaged youth in Iraq. By transferring knowledge and learning directly to youth in targeted areas with participation of NGOs, the Project is expected to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of targeted youth and facilitate their access to basic social skills and economic infrastructure through:

• Channeling training on life skills and providing basic psycho-social support
• Facilitating the integration of young people and those exposed to exclusion from labor market into working life.
• Improving the economic status of poor and more vulnerable youth by stimulating local incomes and productivity and reducing exposure to risk, through basic skills training, and capacity building to supplement micro-entrepreneurship initiatives.

III. Scope of Work

The MoYS intends to recruit the services of an NGO to monitor youth groups in the areas of (Ba’sheeqa, Hamam Al-Aleel and Al-Mahalabiya) in implementing sub-project proposals for youth-led community development activities that had been developed during the Soft Skills training and as follows:

• be responsible for community initiatives development and implementation, and the Consultant will supervise the implementation of the sub-projects.
• The NGO will be responsible for sub-grant disbursements based on the procurement plan developed by youth through receiving an advance payment and then submitting the receipts for the purchased materials to amortize the advance payment within a maximum period of one month and report to the PMU in details on the results of the implementation.
• Ensure proposed youth-led community development initiatives respect guidelines detailed in Attachment 2
• Coordination with the Ministry of Youth and Sports to ensure the successful implementation by the ‎trainees of 25 community development initiatives. ‎
• ‎Coordination with the Ministry of Youth and Sports to ensure that the Ministry promptly ‎ procures small work, purchases goods and hires services needed to implement the sub-projects. ‎
• Participating with identified representatives at all Grant Approval Committee sessions debating and deciding on youth-led community development initiatives ready for implementation.
• ‎Implementing the environmental and social requirements / conditions in accordance with Attachment 1. ‎
• ‎Supervising the implementation of the community initiatives proposed by the young ‎beneficiaries and approved by the Grant Approvals Committee. ‎
• ‎Monitoring the implementation by making periodic visits (four visits per month) to the ‎implementation sites in order to assess the implementation and challenges, and provide ‎support when talking to the trainees. ‎
• ‎Submitting a periodic update on monitoring and supervision functions to ensure ‎the implementation. The Ministry of Youth and Sports will provide a template to track progress in the implementation of community initiatives. Reporting may include entering data/ reporting through the project Management Information System once operational, if the activities are still ongoing.
• ‎Upon completion of the implementation, the consultant should provide the Ministry of Youth and Sports with a report (working paper with two- or ‎three pages) that includes the achievements, challenges, etc. The report will also include at least two high-resolution photos of trainees during the implementation of the community initiative and one photo of the community initiative completed.
• Ensure sustainability of community initiatives as per guidelines in Attachment 2;
• Ensure disposition of assets is made as per guidelines in Attachment 2;
• Ensure receipts are provided by the youth (petty cash) as per guidelines in Attachment 2.
• Administer surveys to project beneficiaries, collect relevant data and submit a compiled Evaluation report to the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Survey templates will be provided by the Ministry of Youth and Sports to the NGO team.

V. Deliverables

Completion of implementation of 25 community initiatives by groups of Youth.

VII. Payment

The payment shall be 4% of the amount for supervision on the implementation of community initiatives to be paid upon the completion of each initiative.

Attachment No. (1)‎

Environmental and Social Requirements

Attachment 1. A:

Environmental Screening Checklist

Part A. Exclusions

If the answer to any of the above question is “yes”, then the sub-project cannot be financed by this grant.

Part B. Category Subproject

The sub-project that are categorized as category C will need no further environmental screening but specific measures on GBV prevention should be taken if the activities are related to Community events. The PMT will report immediately to the Bank any incident occurred during the project implementation.

Social Aspects

As majority of initiatives involve direct contact with people, the Consultant will need to document and outline the necessary protocols and mechanisms to address GBV SEA/SH risks; and how to address any SEA/SH allegations that may arise.

GRM Information must be disseminated in sites or locations where community initiatives are taking place.

If hiring is required by any community initiative, people under 18 years old should not be hired. This provision does not include those under 18 years old who might benefit or participate in project activities.

Due to current COVID-19 pandemic, it is recommended to assess the situation of the project community initiatives, putting in place mitigation measures to avoid or minimize the chance of infection, taking into account current and relevant guidance provided by national authorities, WHO and other organizations.

Attachment 1. B

Indicative Good Practices

Good Practices for Cleaning, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Streets and Public Spaces

Good Practices for Environmental Clean-Up Campaigns

Good Practices for Planting Gardens

Good Practices for Painting and Minor Rehabilitation of Classrooms in Schools and Youth Centers

Attachment 1. C

Environmental Monitoring Checklist

Monitoring Report completed by (print name):

_____________________________________________________

Monitoring Report completed by (signature):

_____________________________________________________

Title: _____________________________________________________

Completed on (date):

_____________________________________________________________

Attachment No. (2)‎

Terms and Criteria for the Community Initiatives

Criteria for Youth-Led Community Development Sub-Project Approval

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