Deadline: 7-Mar-22
The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE) has announced a call for Solutions for Scalable Employment Models.
CFYE wants to collaborate with intermediaries that offer business support and innovative financing mechanisms to Small and Growing Businesses in at least two of its countries of operation. Projects should result in decent employment for at least 2000 young people (aged 15 to 35).
Small and Growing Businesses are important to create jobs for youth. Intermediaries play an important role to build systems and mechanisms that will continue to create jobs for young women and men. CFYE is looking to partner with organisations that have on-the-ground presence to directly work with Small and Growing Businesses, will continue to exist after the end of the CFYE programme and have the potential to scale.
The goal of the Challenge Fund for Youth Employment is to support robust and innovative ideas for creating or improving decent work prospects for youth, especially young women. For the purposes of this program, youth is defined as between the ages of 15 – 35.
Objectives
The objectives of this thematic call are:
- To scale initiatives that successfully create decent job opportunities for youth in countries of its current operation and/or replicate the model in other countries;
- To design or strengthen mechanisms that will exist beyond the duration of CFYE that anchor employment outcomes in the business case of locally operating Small and Growing Businesses; and,
- To contribute to CFYE’s learning and innovation agenda which includes the following themes:
- defining, enhancing and measuring DECENT jobs,
- demonstrating the business case of decent jobs, and
- the future of work in terms of green jobs. They are also interested to learn more on interventions that contribute to the employment ecosystem.
Eligibility Criteria
The following general criteria for eligible proposals apply:
- Principles: Should be able to adhere to CFYE’s guiding principles & priorities.
- Exclusion Criteria: the programme and organizations involved must pass the FMO exclusion criteria.
- Local Presence: You (the lead organization), or at least one of your consortium partners, has a local operating presence in the countries in which you will operate.
- The proposed project or initiative needs to work in at least two CFYE countries, namely: Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Jordan, Egypt, South Sudan, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Morocco and Niger
- Legality: The Lead Organisation and consortium partners are legally registered and proof of registration as private sector, foundation, NGO etc. is provided. The lead organisation has been in existence for at least 3 years
- Total Targets: The proposed programme will create, match, improve or sustain at least 2,000 jobs for young men and women.
- Women Targets: Of the total youth employment created, matched, or improved, at least 50% are for women.
- Private Sector: The proposed activities should support private companies in creating decent jobs for young men & women.
- Leverage & CFYE Contribution: The minimum contribution of the fund is € 500,000. This should be matched by a co-investment that is at least equal to the contribution requested
- Youth: The jobs created, matched or improved would be for youth aged 15–35 years. Unless the minimum working age is otherwise stipulated by local labour laws.
- Employment type: Initiatives in both the informal and formal sectors are eligible. However, there is need to specify the employment type: wage employment, self-employment or dependent self-employment.
For more information, visit https://fundforyouthemployment.nl/thematic-call-for-solutions-scalable-employment-models/