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Ad title:
Service Contractor
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Mercy Corps
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Published: 03 February
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Attached File:
698700_MC_9707163.zip
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Mercy Corps Georgia is announcing a vacancy/competition for the following activities:
Title: A SERVICE CONTRACTOR UNDER OUTCOME 3
Programme: ALCP2 (Alliances Caucasus Programme 2)
Contract Type: Organizational Contract
Date of Announcement: 03 February 2026
Deadline for Submission: 11 February 2026 (First stage: filling out and submitting the Intent to Bid form)
The Mercy Corps Georgia implemented Alliances Caucasus Programme2 (www.alcp.ge) funded by a consortium of donors; the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) project in cooperation with the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) and Sweden, launched in May 2022 for four years. The ALCP 2 aims to further build on regional market alliances in the South Caucasus to benefit rural producers and inhabitants of rural Georgia. It continues to promote regional cross border trade and initiatives in information and equitable access to decision making between Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is implemented through the lens of environmental sustainability and taps into and further build a sustainable platform for rural producers to participate in added value, export and tourism markets. Its purpose is to raise incomes and increase inclusion and the quality of the living environment in rural areas of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to higher incomes, employment opportunities and more equitable sustainable local development. The programme is implemented with strict adherence to the `Market Systems Development` (MSD) approach. It has a light-touch facilitation approach to intervention design and implementation and makes strategic investments with key market players in the private and public sector to address systemic causes of market ineffectiveness and exclusion of small-scale livestock producers. The programme monitoring and evaluation is run according to the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development standard, the programme being one of the few PSD programmes globally to have proceeded to full audit. It is deeply committed to ensuring Women`s Economic Empowerment in all aspects of programme implementation.
Program aims, structure and framework:
Local natural resources are central to human wellbeing, especially for rural inhabitants whose income is highly dependent on use of local natural resources. However, though research the programme identified that rural inhabitants lack awareness in local natural resource use and management and it hampers the sustainable use of natural resources and results in chaotic development spoiling the precious biodiversity, landscape, traditions and culture of unique mountain regions in Georgia. Accountability and transparency in local natural resource use, access to opportunities through rural hubs and developing a united vision for rural development amongst conservation stakeholders is the focus of the ALCP2 interventions under Outcome 3. In July 2025, in response to an altered operating environment, the ALCP2 updated Outcome 3 strategy to focus on rural tourism entrepreneurship through the Women`s Rooms Union`s Network as this ties directly into the programmed work with the private sector and current support through the municipal Women`s Rooms of facilitating access to grants for micro businesses for rural entrepreneurs, many of which were based on the rural tourism market.
The ALCP2 is seeking a service contractor organization to help the programme to reach its objective to promote the Rural Tourism manual in three municipalities of three regions - Akhmeta, Oni and Keda by conducting trainings and information campaigns for rural entrepreneurs using the ALCP a Farmers` Handbook of Rural Tourism Ventures, a rural tourism manual, aiming to improve their knowledge and motivation to start/expand or link their small scale rural businesses to tourism sector and increase their incomes.
Please submit Filled Intent to bid form in English by 11 February 2026 to: gkudakovi@mercycorps.org Mob: 72 00 08
Indicate ALCP2-Programme
The form to be filled out and Terms of Reference (ToR) are attached
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