Deadline: 27-Aug-21
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) has announced the applications for the Capacity Development for Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Institutions Grant Scheme.
The aim of the ENHANCER project seeks to enable the Syrians under temporary protection (SuTPs) and the loca host communities (LHCs) in developing new and growing businesses to provide sustainable jobs and livelihoods and develop a sustainable enabling institutional environment. The framework consists of modular strategies and actions that can be tailored to different types of regional, sectoral and socio-cultural settings.
The Project operates in 11 provinces including Istanbul, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Adana, Mersin, Bursa, Izmir, Ankara, Konya, Kayseri, and Hatay. Approximately EUR 17.1 million are allocated for grant support to entrepreneurs and local institutions out of the total EUR 32.5 million project budget. EUR 3 million will be allocated to the competitive grants for Local Support Programmes for Local Institutions in total, under the ENHANCER project.
Objectives
- In that sense, the specific objectives of the project are defined as:
- to increase the entrepreneurial activity of the SuTPs and the LHCs by providing an enabling environment and support in creation of new products and markets, which are tradable beyond the local market. This will be the entrepreneurial line focus of the project,
- Local entrepreneurial ecosystems are more effective and inclusive for the SuTPs and the LHCs. This will be the ecosystem line focus of the project,
- Policy development related to socio-economic integration and coordination of the implementation of those policies are improved in a structured manner at the national, regional and local levels. This will be the policy line focus of the project.
- Employment opportunities of the the SuTPs and local host communities increased through better services and reinforced ecosystem and economic actors within the prioritized sectors. This will be the jobcreation line focus of the project.
- The global objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen capacity of local entrepreneurship ecosystem institutions in implementation of harmonious and inclusive migration policy based on innovation, entrepreneurship and human resources.
- The specific objective of this call for proposals is eliminating lack of technical and human capacity of local entrepreneurship ecosystem institutions and increasing quality and efficiency of services provided for SuTP and LHC entrepreneurs.
Priority Areas
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- creating and improving connections between ecosystem institutions in migrant inclusive entrepreneurship and socioeconomic inclusion,
- mobilizing wider groups of SuTPs and LHCs beyond entrepreneurs to get involved in economic life,
- strengthening organizational and human resources management strategies and practices of ecosystem institutions, with a view to improving socioeconomic integration of the SuTPs with the LHCs
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3 000 000.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 10 000
- maximum amount: EUR 30 000
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
- Minimum percentage: 75% of the total eligible costs of the action.
- Maximum percentage: 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicant
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with if any coapplicant(s), preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), not acting as an intermediary and
- be a specific type of organisation operating in Business Support and Entrepreneurship Development and
- be Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Chambers of Commodity Exchange or Unions and chambers of tradesmen and craftsmen, or Municipalities or
- be an organisation such as Common Use Facilities, Business Incubators, Entrepreneurship Centres, Vocational Training Centres (which are not affiliated to Ministry of Education and which are not part of formal education and linked to business support organisations or universities), Technoparks, Organized Industrial Zones, Technology Development Zones, Universities. (Legal entities exclusively refer to legal personalities defined by their respective laws: To be determined on the basis of the organisation’s statutes, which should demonstrate that it has been established by an instrument governed by the Turkish national law.)
- be an NGO2 registered in Turkey and
- be established in Ankara, Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, Hatay, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Konya, Mersin, or Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Co-Applicants
- Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
- If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary (ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
For more information, visit https://www.icmpd.org/work-with-us/grants/open-calls-for-proposals