Consultancy Firm for Services of Youth Creative Talent Acceleration Programme

SCOPE OF TENDERUNDP Eswatini seeks to engage qualified firms to design and implement a six (6) month practical creative talent acceleration, professionalization, and commercialization programme targeting youth with interest or demonstrated potential within the broader creative and entertainment industries. The selected firm shall design and implement a practical creative talent acceleration, professionalization, and commercialization programme targeting youth with interest or demonstrated potential within the broader creative and entertainment industries. The programme shall focus on developing sustainable livelihood pathways for emerging creatives within sectors such as music, performing arts, comedy, spoken word, podcasting, MCing, dance, digital entertainment, influencing, content creation, acting, media production, and related creative economy ecosystems. The programme shall prioritize practical exposure, commercialization readiness, market linkage, audience development, and professional industry participation rather than purely theoretical artistic training. The programme shall support a total of 30 anchor youth in identifying, developing, packaging, and professionalizing their creative talents through practical training in creative branding, digital storytelling, audience engagement, digital presence management, content production, creative entrepreneurship, portfolio development, personal brand development, and monetization pathways. The selected firm shall further support participants to establish professional creative identities,improve visibility, strengthen confidence and presentation skills, and position themselves competitively within Eswatini’s emerging creative economy. The programme shall include practical exposure to creative industry operations including talent management, artist development, client engagement, event participation, freelancing opportunities, performance preparation, digital content monetization, bookings management, professional ne