| Overview : Update: Deadline extended to 13 August 2021 (Friday), 11:59PM (GMT+8) Dear Bidder, We kindly request you to submit your Proposal for Business Development Consultancy for Impact Venture Accelerator. Based on a collective vision, MaGIC and UNDP partnered to accelerate Malaysia businesses ventures to become impact oriented and deliver products and services contributing to feasible business-based solutions for SDG challenges. To cultivate and nurture an inclusive community of innovators to address social and environmental concerns, MaGIC will implement a Social Impact Challenge Accelerator programme (SICA), in which, UNDP will support by implementing the Impact Accelerator programme as part of SICA. The Impact Accelerator will be customized based on UNDP’s Impact Venture Accelerator, which assume combining business acceleration activities with robust and dedicated efforts for SDG impact alignment including building the accelerator cohort’s capacity to adopt global best practices in Impact Measurement and Management (IMM). While the scope and range of SDG related challenges are broad, the accelerator programme will work on those thematic areas that are both prioritized by the MaGIC and UNDP Country Office. The proposed Impact Accelerator will be primarily focusing on the impact ventures targeting the following priority fields (i) affordable and accessible senior care services; (ii) upcycling plastic into commercial products; (iii) accessible and affordable education; (iv) providing children support in mental health and psycho-social support and access to safe and clean environment; (v) environmental protection. The selected implementing party will work together with UNDP with the aim to support the ventures by: - Helping to Measure & Grow Impact: Define impact, parametrize impact in SDG context; Align growth strategies and target generating elevated measurable impact.
- Providing access to expertise, practices, networks and understanding of developing country markets
- Sensitizing Impact Story of Impact Ventures: Verbalizing and visualizing inspiring impact and development context of business solutions to facilitate access to impact capital.
- Assisting in Fundraising & Pitching with Impact Investors: Coaching focused on fundraising strategies & pitching to access funding from impact and development related sources.
Please be guided by the form attached hereto as Annex 2 in preparing your Proposal. Do ensure that the financial proposal is separated with password protected. Proposals may be submitted on or before Friday, 06 August, 2021 and via email to the address below: United Nations Development Programme Attention to: Procurement Team Email : procurement.my@undp.org Your Proposal must be expressed in the English, and valid for a minimum period of 90 days. | 
