Deadline: 21-Apr-25
Applications are now open for UNICEF’s initiative titled “Enhancement of Empowerment and Livelihoods through Financial Inclusion Cash Plus Interventions including Training on Financial Literacy, Savings, Business Development Services and facilitating access to Financial Services”.
The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and humanitarian cash responses continue, and especially now targeted at returnees, recovery, and livelihood restoration in conflict, drought and flood-affected areas. However, the question about ‘sustainability’ of conventional large-scale cash programming in the current environment, and essentially, the need to leverage the development system to adapt the humanitarian approach, but also, the reverse to adapt the humanitarian response to strengthen a livelihood and individual empowerment-focused social protection approach, needs to be addressed.
This intervention acknowledges the need to move from purely humanitarian to a combination of humanitarian and development programming, and more especially the need to fuel recovery, resilience, and peacebuilding.
Focus Areas
- Social Policy and Advocacy
- Social safety nets
Expected Outcomes
- The partner will be engaged in several activities:
- Provide training on financial literacy, savings, and life skills to cash transfer beneficiaries.
- Provide training on establishment and operationalization of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to cash transfer beneficiaries.
- Link the cash transfer beneficiaries to available and favourable financial services in the banking sector.
- Support beneficiaries in kick-starting and sustaining IGAs through provision of business development services (BDS) and continuous mentorship.
- Monitor the savings and borrowing trends, and IGAs among individual beneficiaries and SHGs to feed into program re-design and donor reports.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a community-based organization or a national or international NGO with a legal personality recognized in accordance with Ethiopia’s national legislation.
- Be registered on the UNPP as a non-profit civil society organization.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.