UNDP Eswatini is seeking the services of consultancy firm with adequate skills and experience to facilitate the implementation of Eswatini Youth Empowerment Programme (EYEP)’s graduate placement track of the programme. The implementation of the graduate placement track of the programme is defined by the below listed four distinctive steps;

1. Private sector engagement;

• Bilateral engagement of private sector and other potential host organizations that leads to requisitions on the EYEP online portal.
• Onboarding of host organization into the EYEP portal.
• Continuous engagement with host organizations on matters pertaining to placement of graduates(overall Performance measurement, ensuring mechanism for prevention of sexual exploitation and harassment and general graduate welfare, withdrawal and replacement of graduates, and other human resource management functions)

2. Support the matching and placement of graduates against the requirements of host organizations and this inter-alia includes;

• Verification of requisitions from host organization.
• Verification of the capacity of host organization to host matched graduates.
• Verification of availability and readiness of interns before deployment.
• Verification and submission of stipend payroll on a monthly basis.

3. Implementation of EYEP Induction - the service provider will be required to review and facilitate the delivery of a three-day induction workshop for enrolled youth. The service provider is expected to review the current induction manual based on the experiences of the piloty phase and ensure that the induction manual is structured in accordance with the needs of each group as per the different components of the EYEP (graduate placement and artisanal skills training). The induction programme must be interactive, fun while being thought provoking and inspiring.

• Inspire and encourage the youth to have positive life outlook despite many socioeconomic challenges that young people face.
• Prepare new inductees to settle into their new position quickly and become productive and efficient members of staff for the duration of internship programme.
• Enable new inductees to understand the corporate culture and the overall framework under which they are engaged.
• Prepare the selected youth for the work life, teach them basic office or work environment etiquettes such as how to dress, communicate, keeping time, collaborating with team members etc.
• Instill a sense of patriotism despite the many socioeconomic challenges the country faces.
• Encourage civic participation of youth in nation building engagements and how to better manage, prevent and resolve conflicts.
• Equip young people with skills on how to cope with stress, mental health, peer pressure, crisis at individual and community level, as well as how to guard against and prevent sexual harassment and exploitation.
• Introduce the inductees to the basic rudiments of entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to formal which collar employment.
• Introduce the inductees to personal financial management principles.
• Instill a sense of self-worth that is not defined by economic or social circumstances as part of building a resilient mindset for the youth.
• Teach inductees with the principles of positive deviance.

4.. Tracer studies, Monitoring of EYEP participants during and post the programmes;