Deadline: 24-Sep-21
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) has announced the applications for the Local Common Use Facility Grant Scheme.
The aim of the ENHANCER project seeks to enable the Syrians under temporary protection (SuTPs) and the local 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.
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 job creation line focus of the project.
- 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.
Priorities
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- Improving inclusive business creation and scaling up services;
- Strengthening networking and export capacity based on SuTP and LHC’s 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 EUR 4 150 000.
- 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
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 of tradesmen and craftsmen chambers 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.) and
- be established in Ankara, Adana, Bursa, Hatay, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Konya or Mersin, Turkey.
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.
- 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