ICMPD’s ENHANCER: Pilot Local Use Grant for Gaziantep and Sanliurfa

Deadline: 6-Nov-20

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is inviting the interested organizations to submit for the call for proposals – Pilot Local Common Use Facility Grant Scheme for Gaziantep and Sanliurfa under Enhancement of Entrepreneurship Capacities for Sustainable Socio-Economic Integration (ENHANCER) Project.

The aim of the ENHANCER project seeks to enable the SuTPs and the host communities in developing new and growing businesses to provide sustainable jobs and livelihoods and develop a sustainable enabling institutional environment.

One of the main targets of ENHANCER Project is to make soft interventions to the entrepreneurship ecosystem institutions to deliver better services for SuTPs and LHCs to ensure the establishment and maintenance of businesses through cooperation between actors in the ecosystem. In this respect, grants will be provided to upgrading of existing or new local common use facilities.

Objectives & Priority Issues

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to a more inclusive and effective local entrepreneurial ecosystem in line with national and regional/local economic development policies.
• The specific objective of this call for proposals is creating new or enhancing current Local Common Use Facilities as critical focal point as entrepreneurial hubs/community centres in which SuTPs and LHCs peers can interact and have access to several services they need.
• Targeted sectors/local value chains:
  • food products, including agricultural food and production chain as well;
  • textiles and ready garment;
  • leather products and shoe making;
  • machinery and equipment’s;
  • furniture production.
• The priorities of this call for proposals are:
  • Improving inclusive business creation and scaling up services;
  • Strengthening networking and export capacity based on SuTP entrepreneurs’ skills and commercial/social connections;
  • Upgrading technical and institutional capacity of LCUFs.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is €1.800.000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 75.000;
  • maximum amount: EUR 250.000.
• 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

• In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  • Be a legal person;
  • Have proven experience in area of entrepreneurship at least during the last 2 years;
  • Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with if any co-applicant(s), preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), not acting as an intermediary;
  • Be a specific type of organization operating in Business Support and Entrepreneurship Development;
  • Be Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Chambers of Commodity Exchange or Unions of tradesmen and craftsmen chambers or Municipalities;
  • Be an organization 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 organizations or universities), Techno parks, 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 organization’s statutes, which should demonstrate that it has been established by an instrument governed by the Turkish national law.);
  • Be established in Gaziantep or Sanliurfa, Turkey.
• The lead applicant may act individually or with co-applicant(s).
• Co-applicant(s):
  • 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 himself.
  • Co-applicants must sign the grant application form.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary (ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
• The following entities are not applicants and do not have to sign the ‘mandate for co-applicant(s)’:
  • Associates: Other organizations or individuals may be involved in the action. Such associates play a real role in the action but may not receive funding from the grant. Associates do not have to meet the eligibility criteria.
  • Contractors: The beneficiaries are permitted to award contracts. Associates cannot be also contractors in the project. Contractors are subject to the procurement rules set out to the grant contract.

For more information, visit https://www.icmpd.org/work-with-us/grants/open-calls-for-proposals/pilot-local-common-use-facility-grant-scheme-for-gaziantep-and-sanliurfa-enhancer-project/