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ESPON ARISE - Adaptive Resilience and Inclusive Strategies for Europe’s Structurally Declining Territories
ESPON EGTC
The project will develop a coherent framework for understanding how territorial cohesion and resilience operate under conditions of persistent low growth, demographic contraction and structural decline. Based on European-wide territorial mapping, it will elaborate typologies of territories facing persistent low growth and demographic contraction, and produce territorial maps of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience. Through comparative qualitative case studies across different territorial contexts, it will document adaptive territorial practices and governance innovations. Finally, the project will offer practical policy guidance suggesting how cohesion policy, territorial governance and resilience planning frameworks may need to evolve in response to persistent low growth and structural territorial contraction.
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Housing and Built Environment
Inclusive Growth (IG) Framework
London Legacy Development Corporation
London Legacy Development Corporation intends to establish the Inclusive Growth Framework, providing a flexible route to commission services that advance inclusive growth, equality, education, skills, employment, enterprise, community participation and evidence based decision making across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, East London and the areas served by participating authorities. The Framework will be divided into the following six lots: Lot 1: Education Programme Delivery Lot 2: Employment and Skills Support Lot 3: Community Engagement and Capacity Building Lot 4: Research and Evaluation Lot 5: Business Support Lot 6: Strategic Consultancy Services Services may include the design, coordination and delivery of education and careers programmes; employment, training and progression support; employer and participant engagement; community consultation, co design and capacity building; research, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; business advice, mentoring and enterprise...
Education and Skills Research, Evaluation and Surveys Organisations and Management Consulting
Innovation Marketplace (FWC)
Government Commercial Agency
Description The Commercial Innovation Hub (CIH) is a cross-government centre of excellence that is pioneering new approaches to service design and procurement, established to drive procurement of innovation across government and the wider public sector. The CIH was created in the context of the Procurement Act 2023 coming into force and is framed as a joint DSIT-GCA initiative announced as part of the National Procurement Policy Statement. The CIH will tackle a persistent set of barriers that limit procurement-led innovation Traditional procurement approaches are not suited for acquiring novel technologies and not always accessible for SMEs and Start Ups" and there is a perceived risk culture that limits "psychological safety to 'fail fast'". The CIH rationale highlights the need to improve awareness and practical use of "commercial innovation opportunities" through briefs, tools and templates, and to help departments pilot innovations and contract with new supply chains. This...
Government, Regulation and Public Administration Technology and Innovation
Oxfordshire Growth Hub Business Support
OXFORDSHIRE LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Enterprise Oxfordshire requires a supplier to build on our Growth Hub business support offer to Oxfordshire SMEs. The supplier will be required to set up, implement, manage and deliver an outstanding Growth Hub offer for Oxfordshire. This will include: • Triaging businesses to ensure they access the most suitable support for them. • Designing business support options for any sector, stage and type of business. • Delivering business support activities which are innovative, tailored to SME business needs in Oxfordshire and impactful - driving benefits for businesses and the wider economy. • Working with internal teams to attract new clients to the support as well as promoting the support offered. • Generating new clients for the Growth Hub. • Providing programme management support including back-office administration and reporting. • Evaluating delivery and providing case studies and impact reports.
Reforms for Growth in Pakistan (RFG)
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is developing a business case for a seven-year economic governance programme in Pakistan, titled Reforms for Growth in Pakistan (RFG). RFG aims to build on the significant progress on economic reforms achieved over the past three years through predecessor programmes, capitalising on proven ways of working for this long-term agenda. RFG will use agile technical assistance, policy-driven research and economic diplomacy to support reforms to foundational federal and provincial fiscal policies, as well as policies that improve the business environment. It will focus on building institutions, to ensure sustainability after the end of the programme. This is ODA programme designed to provide agile, flexible and adaptive technical assistance and research support to the federal government, with support to the provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh. The programme will primarily be funded through Resource-DEL...
Government, Regulation and Public Administration Development and International Programmes Environment and Energy
Gambling Research Services
Gambling Commission
In April 2025, the UK government introduced a statutory levy on gambling operators to provide 'independent and sustainable funding for gambling-related harms research, prevention and treatment'. A small portion of this funding has been allocated to the Gambling Commission so that it can procure research into gambling-related harms in line with its licensing objectives. Consequently, the Commission wishes to undertake some early market engagement to help it determine how best it might structure an invitation to tender for the provision of research services that will enable it to accelerate the process by which it can fill the evidence gaps that have been identified within the Evidence Roadmaps that the Commission's Research and Statistics Team have developed. About the Commission The Gambling Commission is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. The Commission is responsible for issuing personal gambling licences for...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Government, Regulation and Public Administration Education and Skills
Liverpool City Region Active Travel Maps
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) is looking to create a new active travel map (walking, wheeling and cycling), primarily concentrating on cycle routes and facilities across the city region. The supplier will work with the LCRCA and the six constituent authorities (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral) to develop a map that is both clear and easy to use. The result of the contract will be six maps (1 for each local authority area) of active travel facilities such as segregated cycle lanes, off road cycle networks and on road quiet routes. The mapping data that is created by the successful supplier will be owned solely by the LCRCA. This is so that when new routes and facilities are built, the maps can be easily updated by the internal personnel using a standard specification. The maps will need to include key destinations, safety information, key landmarks, bike shops, repair stations, and links to public transport hubs. These will be...
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Organisations and Management Consulting Technology and Innovation
Evaluation of the African Guarantee Fund and Denmark’s contribution
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
The African Guarantee Fund - for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Ltd (AGF) is a non-bank financial institution established to enhance access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa. Its activities include the provision of guarantees to financial institutions and capacity development support to both lenders and SMEs. AGF was one of five concrete initiatives recommended by the Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa in 2010, and has now been in operation for almost 15 years. Denmark was a founding shareholder and has supported the AGF through a combination of shareholder capital, grant financing, and representation on the board. A 2016 evaluation of the results of the Africa Commission included an early assessment of AGF, which found the AGF to be relevant, innovative, and on a promising path, with rapid portfolio growth, strong interest from partner banks, and early indications that participating banks had increased the SME...
Organisations and Management Consulting EU Institutions and Programmes Development and International Programmes
Promoting an enabling civic space
EU Commission
Promoting an enabling civic space (CERV-2026-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC) A thriving civic space requires an enabling legal, administrative and regulatory environment in which civil society organisations (CSOs) are supported and empowered, protected from threats, and able to operate freely. This call therefore aims to reinforce the conditions for such an environment by supporting actions that strengthen both the monitoring of civic space and the protection and resilience of CSOs and human rights defenders working to uphold EU values. Monitoring of civic space Projects should establish or enhance systematic and comprehensive monitoring systems to regularly assess the environment in which CSOs operate at national level. These should build on and align as closely as possible with existing frameworks—such as the indicators developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and data from international organisations—as well as national monitoring systems, to ensure comparability and...