Call for Proposals for Implementing Partners of Not-for-profit Organisations in Egypt

Deadline: 31-Aug-22

The ‘PROSPECTS – Partnership for improving Prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons, has been launched by the Government of the Netherlands that brings together the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank.

The Partnership has a four year initial time horizon (2019-2023) where partners will join their efforts to develop a new paradigm in responding to forced displacement crises in 8 countries (Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Sudan, and Uganda).

The overall objective of Prospects in Egypt is to improve the living standards and inclusiveness of refugees, asylum-seekers and vulnerable host communities, by contributing to the expansion of socioeconomic opportunities through better education and mainstreamed protection interventions.

Focus Areas

• The programme will be implemented in in Greater Cairo aiming mainly at refugees. The target groups are youth aspiring entrepreneurs with focus on women entrepreneurs.
• The implementing partner needs to identify exact locations and the target beneficiaries based on clear criteria (for example, the refugees’ populations, beneficiaries’ criteria of selection identified in each ILO toolkit …etc.). The ILO will provide support and clearance to the selection criteria and the outreach methodology
• With a geographical focus on Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Damietta, PROSPECTS Egypt will work under three main pillars as shown:
  • Education and Learning
    • Quality of Education and
    • Learning
    • Increased attendance
    • School to Work Support
    • Measures
  • Employment with dignity
    • Labour Market Governance
    • Business Support and
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Working conditions
  • Protection and Inclusion
    • Legal framework and
    • Protection environment
    • Protection and Social
    • Protection services
    • Capacity Building

Criteria

• The proposals will be evaluated according to the criteria described:
  • Technical Proposal
    • The quality and depth of the proposal against the terms of the TOR.
    • Technical compliance with the Terms of Reference and its planned deliverables.
    • The proposed implementation, management plan and work plan.
    • The qualifications and experience of proposed key personnel who will manage and implement the programme.
  • Financial Proposal
    • The budget and its overall costs are realistic.
    • The budget breakdown and costing per budget lines.
    • The percentage of indirect costs to the total budget.

For more information, visit https://www.ilo.org/global/programmes-and-projects/prospects/countries/egypt/WCMS_853070/lang–en/index.htm