Sightsavers recrute des organisations pour des interventions d'entrepreneuriat numérique
Engagement of Organisations to Deliver Digital Entrepreneurship Interventions for Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
1. Background and Context
Sightsavers is an international development organisation, preventing avoidable blindness and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities to have equal access to inclusive education, citizenship and livelihoods. We operate across 30 countries and have been implementing sustainable and impactful programs in Nigeria for over 70 years.
As part of our economic empowerment thematic portfolio, Sightsavers is implementing a 5-year ‘Digital Futures’ program funded by the Mastercard Foundation. The central aim is to improve access to employment for young people with disabilities by providing digital, IT and entrepreneurship skills within the broader digital ecosystem. Through the award-winning IT Bridge Academies and related support, the programme will empower economically disadvantaged young people with disabilities across four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia.
The programme aims to directly reach 3,500 young people with disabilities in Nigeria, with 1,800 expected to be enrolled in the digital entrepreneurship pathway. To successfully deliver the Digital Entrepreneurship Pathway, Sightsavers Nigeria intends to engage qualified organizations, preferably Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), to support programme implementation.
2. Objective of the RFP
The purpose of this Request for Proposal Expression of Interest is to identify and contract competent organization with demonstrated capacity to deliver inclusive digital entrepreneurship training and business development support services for persons with disabilities in Nigeria.
3. Scope of Work
The selected organisation will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering services that may include the following:
- Mobilise eligible persons with disabilities, ensuring representation across disability groups and prioritising women with disabilities.
- Conduct accessibility-informed needs assessment and participants profiling.
- Design relevant and locally adaptable training content on digital entrepreneurship, online business tools, digital marketing, green skills, financial literacy, record keeping, customer relations, and business planning.
- Deliver accessible training using disability-inclusive facilitation approaches, assistive technologies, and reasonable accommodation where required.
- Provide post-training business development support, coaching, mentoring, and referral services.
- Support participants to develop or strengthen viable business plans and digital market access strategies.
- Contribute to the selection of beneficiaries for the seed funding and support with the management of the seed grant.
- Facilitate linkages with relevant government, private sector, financial service, and enterprise development actors.
- Collect disability-, sex-, and age-disaggregated data and maintain accurate participant records.
- Document lessons learned, success stories, challenges, and recommendations.
4. Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Be a legally registered organisation in Nigeria, preferably an Organisation of Persons with Disabilities.
- Demonstrate governance structures that include meaningful leadership or representation of women and persons with disabilities.
- Have proven experience working on disability inclusion, economic empowerment, digital skills, entrepreneurship, livelihoods, financial inclusion, or related programming.
- Show capacity to reach and support women with disabilities and other underrepresented disability groups.
- Have experience delivering accessible training or community-based capacity building.
- Demonstrate strong competences in digital accessibility.
- Demonstrate sound financial management, reporting, safeguarding, and data protection practices.
- Have existing partnerships with disability-inclusive financial institutions.
- Be willing to comply with Sightsavers’ safeguarding, anti-fraud, anti-bribery, conflict of interest, and inclusion requirements.
5. Submission Instructions
Interested organisations should submit complete proposals by email to: [email protected]
The email subject line should read: RFP– Digital Entrepreneurship in the Digital Futures Program.
Submission deadline: 25th September 2026 by 7pm WAT.
Questions or requests for clarification should be sent to [email protected] no later than 16th September 2026.
6. Duration and Location
The program implementation is expected to kick off from January 2027 to December 2029, and project focal locations include Lagos, FCT, Rivers, and Kano state.
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