A.BACKGROUND
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Federation of National Association of Women in Business (COMFWB) is one of COMESA institution supporting the development and participation of women owned SMEs in regional integration.
The COMESA Treaty under Article 154 and 155 acknowledges critical role that women play in their social economic spheres in line with the COMESA gender policy. COMESA has set up two institutions and agencies supporting private sector development. The COMESA Federation of National Association of Women in Business (COMFWB) is one of the COMESA institutions with a mandate of supporting women led private sector organizations.
COMFWB has been implementing its medium-term strategic plan which focus on supporting provision of business development services to entrepreneurs and creating Jobs for women and youths through creation and strengthening of existing Business incubation centres.
The COMFWB General Assembly and the COMESA Council of Ministers have made decisions on the need to strengthen the Legal instruments of COMFWB such as the COMFWB Charter and the COMFWB Board Charter.
B-OBJECTIVES of the CONSULTANCY
To provide legal advisory services to COMFWB Secretariat :
a. In drafting the proposed amendments to the Charter
b.Drafting the Board Charter
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In view of the preceding,
1-COMFWB Secretariat is inviting Individual Consultants to submit their CV and Financial Proposal for the following services (REF: COMFWB/CS/CC/BC/8/08/2025) :
SHORT TERM CONSULTANCY FOR REVIEWING THE COMFWB CHARTER AND DRAFTING COMFWB BOARD CHARTER
The Terms of Reference defining the minimum technical requirements for these services are attached to this Request for Expression of Interest.
2.Only Individual Consultants are eligible for this assignment.
3.The maximum budget for this contract is US$5,000.00 for expert service/ consultants’ fees only. Proposals exceeding this budget will not be accepted.
4.Your Expression of Interest must be presented as per Expression of Interest Forms attached as Annex 2 to this Request for Expression of Interest, in the English language and be accompanied by copies of all the indicated supporting documents. If the supporting documents are not in English, these shall be accompanied by a certified translation into English.
Your application documents clearly marked and email bearing the subject “: SHORT TERM CONSULTANCY FOR REVIEWING THE COMFWB CHARTER AND DRAFTING COMFWB BOARD CHARTER should be emailed to the following address:
JMasanche@comesa.int and copy to comfwb@comesa.int
5.The deadline for submission of your application, to the address indicated above, is : 25 August 2025 at 16:00hours Malawi time
Additional requests for information and clarifications can be made until 7working days prior to deadline indicated in the paragraph 6 above, from: The Procuring entity: COMFWB Secretariat / Contact person: Head of Procurement. E-mail: JMasanche@comesa.int- copy to comfwb@comesa.int
For further details, kindly download the Terms of Reference and the Expression of Interest Forms
