RFP – Cambodia Supporting Creative Copyright for MSMEs and Women Artisans

About RT4D The Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) initiative is funded by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. It assists ASEAN Member States (AMS) in meeting their commitments and realising the advantages offered by the Agreement establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, or AANZFTA, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP. Through the AANZFTA Implementation Support Program (AISP) and the RCEP Implementation Support Program (RISP), RT4D provides tailored support to enhance the capabilities of ASEAN Member States by strengthening skills, building networks, facilitating policy options and ensuring that trade benefits everyone, including Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), women and people with disability. The Governments of Australia and New Zealand have committed up to AUD 53.3 million to fund RT4D from 2020–21 to 2027–28. Project Summary The RCEP Implementation Support Program (RISP), implemented through the Regional Trade for Development (RT4D) Facility, supports ASEAN Member States to realise the benefits of RCEP through capacity-building support and access to technical expertise. The project ‘Supporting Creative Copyright for Cambodian MSMEs and Women Artisans’ is approved under the RISP. The project aims to support Cambodian creative MSMEs, individual creators and traditional craft communities to better protect, manage and commercialise their creative assets and benefit from opportunities under RCEP. It will: undertake a rapid assessment of copyright-commercialisation needs, practices, constraints and opportunities among Cambodian creative MSMEs, creators, artisans and community-based enterprises, including a case study of Kampong Chhnang pottery communities; develop, consult on, user-test and finalise a practical bilingual Copyright Commercialisation Toolkit in Khmer and English, including modules, examples, templates and checklists; deliver a two-day consultative and capacity-building workshop in Phnom Penh for approximately 80–100 participants, including creative MSMEs, creators, artisans, community-based enterprises, government agencies and relevant market actors; support the participation of women-led and community-based enterprises in capacity-building and consultation activities, with at least 60 per cent of participating MSMEs and enterprises in the workshop expected to be women-led; implement a community-based pilot with Kampong Chhnang pottery artisans, including hands-on capacity building on branding, documentation, cultural storytelling, digital promotion and market engagement; assess appropriate intellectual property protection options for Kampong Chhnang pottery and, where appropriate and feasible, support the development or facilitation of a suitable intellectual property asset, right or protection mechanism; support selected Kampong Chhnang pottery representatives to participate in relevant World Intellectual Property Day activities, including an appropriate product fair or product-display opportunity; and produce a Project Completion Report, project impact video and two short video clips to document project results, participant experiences, market-visibility activities and lessons from the Kampong Chhnang pottery pilot. The Opportunity RT4D is seeking a consulting firm/organisation (hereinafter referred to as “the Consultant”) to manage and deliver technical advisory, stakeholder engagement, event management, communications and multimedia-production services for the project, in close collaboration with the RT4D Facility and the Project Proponent. The Consultant will support the Department of Copyright and Related Rights, Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA), and relevant project counterparts.The project will be implemented in Cambodia between November 2026 and September 2027. Substantive technical activities are expected to be completed by June 2027, with the period from July to September 2027 reserved for finalisation of the Project Completion Report and a Project Impact Video. Responses to Bidder Questions Request for Proposal (RFP) Terms of Reference (Updated) Financial Proposal Template Services Agreement Template To ensure the above can be effectively managed and completed in alignment with the ToR, it is recommended that interested organisations have: Intellectual property, copyright and creative-industry expertise: Demonstrated experience in intellectual property, copyright law, intellectual property commercialisation and creative-industry development, preferably in Cambodia and/or the ASEAN region. Creative-sector and MSME commercialisation expertise: Demonstrated expertise in creative-industry value chains, MSME competitiveness, market-systems development, product commercialisation, branding, market access and business development for cultural, creative, artisan and community-based enterprises. Experience conducting value-chain, market-opportunity and commercialisation assessments in Cambodia and/or ASEAN is highly desirable. Research, consultation and toolkit development: Proven experience conducting research, assessments and stakeholder consultations, and developing practical capacity-building materials, toolkits, guidance resources, case studies and training materials for MSMEs, creative-sector enterprises, creators, artisans or community-based producers, including bilingual Khmer-English outputs. Traditional craft and cultural-heritage experience: Demonstrated experience working with traditional craft communities, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, GRTKTCE-related initiatives or community-based artisan groups, including culturally appropriate, gender-responsive and safeguarding approaches. Intellectual property protection for community-based products: Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property protection options relevant to cultural and community-based products, including collective and community-based approaches, and experience supporting