February – December 2025

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Continuing the success of previous cohorts of ASEAN Social Enterprise Development Programme (SEDP), the ASEAN Foundation – with support from TikTok and SAP – is implementing the ASEAN SEDP 4.0 in 2025 with a goal of empowering social enterprises across the ASEAN region through promoting productivity, technology, and innovation, increasing access to finance, enhancing market access and internationalisation, and promoting entrepreneurship and human capital development. The ASEAN SEDP 4.0 will serve as an accelerator programme that aims to provide customised capacity building training and mentorship tailored to the needs of the participants. In addition, it will also facilitate access to market and provide seed funding for 30 youth-led social enterprises in ten ASEAN countries.

Participants of this programme are 30 youth-led social enterprises based in ASEAN, with founder or co-founder within 18-35 years old and is ASEAN national. The social enterprises already generate some income and are at least in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage. This programme also welcomes social enterprises that are in Product Market Fit (PMF) and growth stage. Once the 30 social enterprises are selected, the ASEAN Foundation will explore in more details about the lessons/materials they wish to learn during the training and mentorship.

The virtual capacity building training and mentorship will take place in parallel for 3 months (July to October 2025), with a four-day offline training in October or November 2025. This capacity building will provide them with an avenue to have a better understanding of their business in terms of their strengths and weaknesses and opportunities as well as threats

After the capacity building session, there will be a Demo Day where 30 social enterprises will have the opportunity to pitch their business plans and potentially win seed grants of up to $40,000. During Demo Day, the ASEAN Foundation, partners, venture capitalists (VCs), and trainers will assess the presentations of the 30 social enterprises. The ones with the strongest pitches and business plans will be awarded seed grants to support their businesses.

In addition, during the programme, participants will have the opportunity to showcase their impacts and engage with the national and ASEAN policymakers.

OBJECTIVES

The main purposes of the consultancy are to assist the ASEAN Foundation:

• Disseminate the ASEAN SEDP 4.0 call for applications for the potential social enterprises across the 10 ASEAN countries to apply for the programme
• Design a quality curriculum, learning methodology, and structure of the ASEAN SEDP 4.0. that meet the needs of 30 selected social enterprises. This includes finding suitable and highly experienced trainers and mentors. Participants are at the centre of this programme. Therefore, an interactive learning is highly recommended;
• Gather a diverse network of policymakers and venture capitalists to improve the visibility and access to finance for the 30 selected social enterprises;
• Ensure the programme generates remarkable impacts. This includes measuring the impact of the ASEAN SEDP 4.0;
• Shortlist and select 30 qualified youth-led social enterprises to join the programme.

SCOPE OF WORK

The ASEAN Foundation is looking for a consultant for ASEAN SEDP 4.0. The consultant will work closely with the Project Officer for ASEAN SEDP and will perform the following responsibilities:

Curriculum Development

• Develop need-assessment survey for social enterprises to customise training and mentoring framework;
• Develop the framework for ASEAN SEDP 4.0. curriculum by accommodating the needs of 30 selected social enterprises;
• Compile the work of all trainers into a single training module document.

Resource Hub

• Find trainers and mentors. Trainers will be responsible to develop the training module and teach in the Master Class (training sessions);
• Find speakers and moderator for a Talk Show or Roundtable Dialogue, which will be conducted during the side event of the ASEAN Summit and ASEAN SEDP 4.0 Regional Workshop in either October or November 2025;
• Monitor mentoring sessions with industry-expert mentors and SAP mentors, including actively ensure that each social enterprise has scheduled their mentoring session with their mentors (both industry-experts and SAP mentors) and benefit from the mentoring sessions;
• Organise a Business Matchmaking as a part of the Regional Workshop, connecting social enterprises and investors which will take place in October or November in Bangkok ;
• Find investors for Business Matchmaking;
• Recommend names of judges for Demo Day.

Participant Scouting and Selection

• Partner with local institutions in ASEAN Countries and disseminate call for applications for social enterprises;
• Assist the ASEAN Foundation team to develop selection criteria to shortlist 30 youth-led social enterprises which will be invited for interview;
• Become one of the panellists to interview the shortlisted social enterprises.

Impact Measurement and Advisory

• Develop pre-test, post-test, and feedback form to measure the impact of the ASEAN SEDP 4.0 training, mentoring, and Business Matchmaking
• Provide advisory inputs to ensure the 30 social enterprises participants benefit from the
• Collect lessons learned and recommendations for the improvement of the ASEAN SEDP 4.0.

Payment Disbursement

• Collect supporting documents from trainers and industry-expert mentors
• Disburse the salary of trainers and industry-expert mentors

TIMELINE

The consultancy will take place from end-February 2025 to end of December 2025. The estimated timeframe does not reflect the actual number of working days, but the recommended time to complete tasks and deliverables. Below is the detailed timeframe:

*tasks, deliverables, and timeframe are subject to change or adjustment depending on the programme development

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Experience in developing curriculum for social enterprises, preferably in ASEAN countries
• Experience in impact measurement
• Experience in working in ASEAN context
• Experience in working with young people and incorporate participatory methods of young people in the programme delivery
• Has diverse networks of social entrepreneurs, trainers, mentors, investors in Southeast Asian countries
• Demonstrate the ability to work under a tight schedule and deliver timely and high-quality materials
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a team
• Flexible in revision and accommodating inputs
• Familiar with video conferencing platform (Ms Teams and/or Zoom) to coordinate with the ASEAN Foundation team
• Flexible in working in multi-stakeholder setting and experience in working in cross-cultural working environments

Desirable

• Experience in conducting similar training and mentoring programme for social enterprises
• Experience in consultancy work
• Gender-sensitive: Demonstrate experience in working with female social entrepreneurs and expertise in developing curriculum suitable to their needs
• Has diverse networks of policymakers in Southeast Asian countries

REMUNERATION
A lump sum quotation is required, including fees for delivering all the required services. The price written in the proposal should indicate a “lump sum amount” which is “all inclusive” for the tasks specified in the Terms of Reference, including the professional fees for the trainers and industry-expert mentors.

Meeting packages for side-event, Regional Workshop, and Business Matchmaking are borne by the ASEAN Foundation. Please ensure the quotation also includes the flight and accommodation for the consultant’s team who will organise Business Matchmaking in Bangkok. Please submit the Request for Quotation form, which can be downloaded at https://bit.ly/RFQSEDP4

HOW TO APPLY
Please send an application which consists of:

1. Consultant profile outlining: (1) areas of expertise (with samples of relevant works), (2) networks of social entrepreneurs, mentors, trainers, investors, policymakers in Southeast Asia that would benefit the ASEAN SEDP 4.0, (3) CV of all team members that will be involved in the consultancy and their roles in the consultancy, including the interview panellists
2. A technical proposal (10 pages) on the ways to disseminate call for applications (participant scouting), learning methodology and curriculum structure, and the concept of Business Matchmaking. The technical proposal should also: (1) include a list of lessons/materials for the training and explain why you propose such lessons/materials, (2) include a list of potential trainers and mentors for each lesson/material, a short bio of each trainer/mentor, and (3) list of investors for Business Matchmaking
3. A lump sum financial quote (in US Dollar) that includes all expected costs for the consultancy period and any relevant tax. All interested candidates should complete the Request for Quotation form, which can be downloaded at https://bit.ly/RFQSEDP4

Please submit the application documents by 12 January 2025 (23.59 Jakarta time) with email subject “ASEAN SEDP 4.0 Incubator and Accelerator Consultant” to [email protected] with CC to [email protected]. Any enquiries can be addressed to [email protected]