Cordaid Ethiopia seeks to: • Build a diverse strategic partnership portfolio. Bring together organizations with the expertise, legitimacy and commitment to advance humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, resilience and systems-change goals. • Strengthen locally led development. Reinforce the leadership, agency and decision-making power of local actors and communities, including organizations that enjoy strong community legitimacy. • Facilitate joint resource mobilization. Nurture long-term relationships through which partners can jointly pursue funding and innovation opportunities.
CORDAID
TERMS OF REFERENCE – Tender No. 010-011/2026
Expression of Interest (EOI): Strategic Partner Mapping
This call is exclusively intended for NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) based in Ethiopia. Please note that this is not a call for funding, job opportunities, or immediate project.
| About Cordaid | Cordaid is a Dutch, international non-governmental organisation that combines 100 years of experience and expertise in emergency aid and structural poverty eradication. CORDAID believes in a world without poverty and exclusion. We strive for a just and sustainable society where every person counts. We stand for knowledge and talent sharing between North and South, between farmers and businesses, and between activists and policymakers. Where poverty, conflict, and exclusion tear up societies, we connect people and communities. We also stand for professionalism, expertise, and solidarity across borders, to make a difference where it is most needed. Together with more than 600 partner organizations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America we structurally improve the living conditions of the poorest and most excluded populations – the bottom billion.
Cordaid delivers its interventions through both direct implementation and partnerships with local organizations, with support from donors including the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ethiopia, the Dutch Relief Alliance, and ACT Alliance. The organization maintains a country office in Addis Ababa and field offices in various locations across Ethiopia. Lasting progress in humanitarian action, development, resilience and systems change is beyond the reach of any one organization working alone. It requires genuine partnerships that combine the knowledge, resources, capabilities and perspectives of many different actors, from local communities to national and international institutions. |
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Procurement Description |
Cordaid understands a strategic partnership as a long-term, equitable and mutually beneficial relationship between organizations with common goals, values and commitments, which join forces to achieve collective impact through joint action, learning, capacity strengthening, advocacy and resource mobilization.
Cordaid Ethiopia seeks to: • Build a diverse strategic partnership portfolio. Bring together organizations with the expertise, legitimacy and commitment to advance humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, resilience and systems-change goals. • Strengthen locally led development. Reinforce the leadership, agency and decision-making power of local actors and communities, including organizations that enjoy strong community legitimacy. • Facilitate joint resource mobilization. Nurture long-term relationships through which partners can jointly pursue funding and innovation opportunities.
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| Tender Requirements | |
| The following documents must be submitted together with the Partner Organization Profile Form. When uploading through the form, please combine them into a single PDF file.
1. Legal registration: valid registration certificate or equivalent document from the relevant government authority. 2. Governance documents: constitution or by-laws, list of governing body members and organizational chart. 3. Financial statements: external audit reports and financial statements for the past three fiscal years. If no audit was conducted, please explain the reason in the form. 4. Policies and procedures: Finance and Accounting; Human Resources; Procurement and Logistics; Safety and Security; ICT and Data Protection; Project Cycle Management; Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL); Code of Conduct; Integrity; Safeguarding; and Complaints and Feedback Mechanism. 5. Track record: evidence of recent donor-funded projects (up to 10), such as award letters or final reports. |
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| Delivery place and validity | Expressions of Interest must be submitted no later than 30 November 2026 at 11:59 PM East Africa Time (EAT).
Submissions received after this deadline will not be considered in the current assessment cycle. Cordaid Ethiopia may, however, keep late submissions in its partner database for future partner mapping and portfolio expansion exercises. |
| Application Process | Eligible organizations, as described in Section 5.1, may submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) by completing the Partner Organization Profile Form and attaching the supporting documents listed in Annex 1.
Applications must be submitted electronically through Cordaid’s online platform, using the link below: |
| Full tender documents and Clarification request
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Interested bidders can access the full RFQ document through the link below
or scan the QR code. Questions about the form may be sent by email to compliance-partnership-et@cordaid.org.
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| Cordaid Ethiopia reserves the right to reject the bid fully or partially without any liability
Cordaid Ethiopia |
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