Procurement Notice

The Saint Lucia Social Development Fund (SSDF) under its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme has received financing by way of a grant from the Caribbean Development Bank Special Development Fund, through its Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF), in an amount not exceeding the equivalent of One hundred and eighty-two thousand, three hundred and eighty United States dollars (USD182,380) towards the cost of the Project Youth Economic Empowerment Through Enterprise (YEETE). The SSDF, the Executing Agency of the Project, intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under a contract for which this invitation is issued, pursuant to the Financing Agreement between CDB and SSDF.

Payments by CDB will be made only at the request of SSDF and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Financing Agreement. The Financing Agreement prohibits withdrawal from the financing account for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import, to the knowledge of CDB, is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. No party other than SSDF shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the financing.

Scope of Consultancy 

The SSDF now intends to procure consultancy services for a Fundamentals of Business of Music Workshop Consultant – Online Trainer.

Objectives of Consultancy

CIIF is working with CDB’s Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) and the Saint Lucia Coalition of Services (SLCSI) to execute the Business of Music Accelerator for Saint Lucian youths interested in the music industry. BNTF, now in its tenth cycle, is a programme under the Social Sector Division at CDB aimed at reducing the incidence of poverty in low-income, vulnerable communities by improving access to quality education and training, water and sanitation, basic community access and drainage, livelihood enhancement and human resource development services.

The objective of the workshop is to increase awareness and understanding of the business of music (BOM) among participants. The planned output is that the target group (18-35 years) which includes youth at risk are trained to understand and apply the fundamentals of music to their businesses/careers.

Scope of Work

The Consultant will provide the online/virtual technical support to registered participants, which would include navigation of the platform https://carib-export.thinkific.com/, responding to queries on the modules outlined below, and other support to ensure transfer of learning, including hosting of a two-hour webinar at the end of each module of the online Fundamentals of the BOM Workshop (seven webinars total) to include the following topics covered:

Module 1 - An Introduction to Music Business & Laying a Solid Foundation upon to Build A Future Career

• Exercise 1 - Design Your Dream Team

Module 2 - The Nuts and Bolts of Music Marketing

Module 3 - Recorded Music Content - Marketing & Development

• Exercise 3 - Metadata

Module 4 - Live Music Development and Marketing & Professional Music Promotion

• Exercise 3 - Preparing Performance Data

Module 5 - Brand Development and Marketing

• Exercise 4 - Self-Reflection

Module 6 - Intellectual Property & Negotiating Contracts

• Exercise 5 - Quiz

Module 7 - International Trade Considerations

• Exercise 6 - Leveraging your Data to Boost Exports

Export Plan

The duration of the assignment is expected to be over a period of ten (10) weeks.

The SSDF now invites eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.