Call for Proposals: Support to Skilling Uganda Intervention

Deadline: 22-Feb-22

The Belgian development agency Enabel and the Ministry of Education and Sports, with funding from the Government of Ireland, have been implementing the 5-year Support to Skilling Uganda Strategy (SSU) project in Karamoja in the period 2016-2021.

The project aims at increased employability of Karamojong youth, women and girls through better quality skills instructions and matching Skills Development training needs to the local labour market demands.

The Skills Development Fund (SDF) was established as a pilot financing model to generate good practices that will input in the design of a national financing mechanism for skills development. The learning and experience from the different contexts so far documented showed that SDF approach is relevant in improving the impact of Enabel programmes and are of interest to the implementing partners.

Objectives

• General objective
  • The general objective of this Call for Proposals is to equip 600 beneficiaries (targeting vulnerable Karamojong youth, with 50% women/girls) with skills development initiatives through quality instructions and work-based learning to enable beneficiaries transition into labour market through wage or self-employment. This Call for Proposals is part of the Support to Skilling Uganda (SSU) project aimed at stimulating bottom-up initiatives and joint partnership ventures between public or non-profit private training providers (Technical and vocational training institutions) and labour market actors (private sector companies and associations) for skills development.
  • This Call for Proposals is specific to the Karamoja region.
  • The overall objective is to support non-formal trainings that will last between 3 to 6 months, targeting 600 Karamojong vulnerable youth aged between 15-30 years, with 50% women/girls).
• Specific objectives
  • Promote vocational and technical skills as an opportunity to access the labour market through wage employment or self-employment
  • Promote joint-venture interventions between skills training providers and private sector actors on vocational and technical skills development
  • Provide market relevant vocational and technical skills training to vulnerable Karamojong youth (with 50% women/girls)
  • Promote value-chain livelihood development for improved competitiveness of livelihood enhancement enterprises

Funding Information

• The total indicative amount available under this Call for Proposals is 391,783 EUR.
• The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all of the available funds.
• Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following amounts
  • minimum amount: 45,000 EUR and
  • maximum amount: 60,000 EUR
• Estimated indicative trainee unit cost of 350 EUR for training lasting 3 months ; 650 EUR for training lasting 6 months.

Expected Results

• Strengthened partnerships between training providers and the private sector actors on skills development
• Market relevant vocational and technical skills training provided to vulnerable Karamojong youth (with 50% women/girls)
• Improved competitiveness of livelihood enhancement enterprises

Eligibility Criteria

• The Applicants
  • The applicant must
    • Be a legal entity; and
    • Be a public entity1or a non-profit private entity or a foundation;
    • Be a specific type of organization such as: non-governmental organization, Community Based Organization, business development service provider, public sector operator, local authority, international organization, skills training provider, etc .
    • Be established or represented in Uganda; and
    • Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary and;
    • Have an active Bank Account for the past 12 months
    • Have a previous work experience in the thematic areas of education, skills development, livelihoods, social empowerment
• Co-applicants
  • A partnership with one co-applicant is obligatory.
  • The co-applicant shall participate in specifying the implementation of the action, and the costs that they incur shall be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant.
  • The co-applicant must satisfy the admissibility criteria which apply to the applicant itself. If the grants are awarded to them, the co-applicant will become beneficiary of the action, with the Contracting-Beneficiary.

For more information, visit https://www.enabel.be/content/enabel-grants