Published date: 8 June 2022

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 6 July 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Foreign economic-aid-related services - 75211200

Location of contract

Any region

Procurement reference

tender_307988/1076804

Published date

8 June 2022

Closing date

6 July 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Women's Integrated Sexual Health - Dividend (WISH-Dividend) is a new programme and successor to FCDO's WISH programme, that is designed to support targeted countries in Africa to be more ambitious on improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for women and girls.
WISH Dividend will ensure the results and investments made under WISH are protected and built on, empowering an additional 7m women and girls to choose if, when and how many children they have. It will support countries to accelerate progress towards a demographic transition, exploiting the narrow window of opportunity presented by an increasing working age population to drive inclusive economic growth.
WISH Dividend will have 3 components - Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Independent Third Party Monitoring and Demographic Transition. The FCDO intends to award a Commercial contract for the Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights component. This component will focus on two main areas.
1. Supporting the scale up of access to comprehensive SRH services and information including voluntary modern methods of family planning, sexually transmitted infections and HIV testing and treatment, safe abortion and post-abortion care, support to survivors of SGBV and FGM, with a Leave No One Behind approach targeting the poorest women and girls, adolescents , people with disabilities and Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings (FCAS). This will be delivered through public sector facilities, private sector provision including social franchising and outreach mechanisms. Services will be complemented by innovative and context-driven activities to address harmful social norms and engage marginalised groups, drawing on the lessons learned on what works through WISH.
2. Supporting policy reform and strengthening systems to enable targeted African countries to improve SRHR and mobilise domestic resources to sustainably improve the lives of women and girls through better access to quality essential SRH services, laying the foundation to transition away from external assistance.

Country selection and funding allocation for the SRHR component will be confirmed during development of the terms of reference for the market and will depend upon final approved budget.

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Additional text

This is not a call for competition or tender at this time. This is a Prior Information Notice to notify interested parties of FCDOs intention to hold an Early Market Engagement Event at 1000 hours BST on Thursday 7th July 2022.
The event will introduce the component to the market, bringing together prospective implementing partners from across local and international markets and use these discussions to inform key design decisions as we develop the programme.
How to register
This EME is scheduled to take place on Thursday 7th July @ 1000 to 1200 UK Time
Please register for attendance for the EME via the guidance below.
How to register for this EME:
If you are interested in attending this Early Market Engagement event, then please register via the form at: https://bit.ly/3mqIzJH

About the buyer

Address

King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
England

Email

ross-mcgarry@dfid.gov.uk