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Abt Global

APEP-2025-012 – Strongim Hub, Strongim Bisnis

Posted
28 March 2025 06:13pm
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Pacific
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Building Resilience
Effective Governance
Multisector
Summary

The Australia-Papua New Guinea Economic Partnership (APEP) is a multi-sector investment which is assisting the Government of Papua New Guinea to (PNG) achieve a resilient and diversified economy that provides a high quality of life for all Papua New Guineans. 

The APEP Efficient and Inclusive Markets (EIM) work stream seeks to address common bottlenecks within the system, at both macro and micro levels, to deliver inclusive growth and increase economic opportunities for women, marginalised groups, and rural populations. 

The Strongim Hub, Strongim Bisnis project will work with key partners in the private sector to improve the supply of high quality, demand-driven business support to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in PNG by delivering tailored capacity development support to up to five privately-operated ‘SME Hubs’.

Description

APEP is seeking to engage an organisation to design and deliver a public Expression of Interest (EOI) process to identify up to five privately-operated SME hubs to participate in the project, conduct organisational capacity assessments, and subsequently deliver a package of organisational development and capacity building support to these hubs over a 7-month period. 

The successful organisation will be required to further support participating hubs to implement immediate, tangible changes within the life of the project, and identify longer term support needs beyond the end of this activity. The successful organisation will deliver this project in collaboration with a local delivery partner organisation which has already been identified by APEP.