Current Request for Tenders

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Australia Awards Short Courses offer the next generation of global leaders an opportunity to undertake short-term study, research and professional development in support of key development and foreign affairs priorities. Short Course opportunities build valuable people-to-people links both within Australia and across the Indo-Pacific region, enabling mid-career professionals and emerging leaders to tap into Australian expertise and to exchange valuable skills and knowledge.

Australia Awards – South Asia & Mongolia is seeking an Australian Higher Education provider or an Australian Registered Training Organisation to deliver Australia Awards Short Courses. For details regarding the request for tender for each Course, please click on the Course name below.

For any queries, contact us on tenders@australiaawardssouthasiamongolia.org

The proposed Short Course aims to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of government officials, energy sector leaders, and policy practitioners from South Asia to design and implement policies and strategies that support secure, affordable, resilient, and sustainable energy transitions.

Through the examination of policy frameworks, strategic planning approaches, governance arrangements and regional cooperation opportunities, participants will strengthen their ability to develop practical and fiscally sustainable energy transition strategies that respond to growing electricity demand, improve energy security, enhance climate resilience and support inclusive economic development.

At the conclusion of the Short Course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand South Asia’s evolving energy landscape
  • Strengthen policy and governance capacity
  • Evaluate strategic energy transition pathways
  • Mobilise investment for clean energy development
  • Strengthen strategic decision-making and risk management
  • Foster regional energy cooperation
  • Support inclusive and just energy transitions
  • Enhance energy resilience and preparedness

This Short Course will support up to 20 participants.

This Short Course will be delivered via blended mode over four months, commencing in December 2026 and completing no later than March 2027.

 

Further details are outlined in the tender documents below:

RFT02-2026 Managing Energy Transition for Resilient and Inclusive Growth Short Course (Multi-country)

RFT02-2026 – Attachment 6&7 – Financial Proposal and Indicative Budget

Attachment 9 – AASAM Short Course Provider Handbook

Attachment 10 – GEDSI Approach & Action Plan 2024-25

Attachment 11 – Scope Global Services Agreement Template

Registration of intent to submit a tender must be sent to tenders@australiaawardssouthasiamongolia.org by Wednesday 7 October 2026.

Proposals must be submitted via email to tenders@australiaawardssouthasiamongolia.org by 5:00pm Adelaide time on Tuesday 20 October 2026.

*Note: Only registered Tenderers will receive any addenda to the RFT.

The proposed Short Course aims to expose participants to Australia’s experience in implementing a national qualifications framework, to build on lessons learnt and explore approaches which may be applicable to Nepal’s context.

The selected Provider will design and deliver a Short Course that combines Australian policy experience, institutional practice, applied learning, and opportunities for engagement with relevant Australian organisations and individual subject matter experts. The course will strengthen Nepal’s capacity to operationalise its own NQF by exposing participants to Australian policy settings, institutional arrangements, implementation approaches, and practical tools that can be adapted to Nepal’s context.

The course will emphasise practical implementation rather than theoretical discussion and will culminate in institutional action planning.

This Short Course will support up to 20 participants.

This Short Course will be delivered via blended mode over four months, commencing in January 2027 and completing no later than April 2027.

 

Further details are outlined in the tender documents below:

RFT01-2026 – Operationalising an Integrated National Qualifications Framework Short Course (Nepal)

RFT01-2026 – Attachment 6&7 – Financial Proposal and Indicative Budget

Attachment 9 – AASAM Short Course Provider Handbook

Attachment 10 – GEDSI Approach & Action Plan 2024-25

Attachment 11 – Scope Global Services Agreement Template

Registration of intent to submit a tender must be sent to tenders@australiaawardssouthasiamongolia.org by Friday 4 September 2026.

*Note: Only registered Tenderers will receive any addenda to the RFT.