Open Call: EU Support to Livelihoods Under the Regional Response to the Syrian Crisis (Jordan)

Deadline: 8-Jun-23

The European Union (EU) is seeking proposals to improve income-generating opportunities and access to decent jobs for refugees and their hosts.

Objectives of the Programme and Priority Issues

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve income-generating opportunities and access to decent jobs for refugees and their hosts.
• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • Strengthened capacities and skills of refugees and hosts to seize economic opportunities;
  • Increased access to decent private sector jobs and social entrepreneurship opportunities in the formal sector benefitting youth and women in refugee and host populations;
• The priorities of this call for proposals include (but are not limited to):
  • One refugee and human-centred approach;
  • Youth and women employment;
  • Sustainable economic opportunities, including in green and digital professions;
  • Promotion of social and economic linkages between refugee and host communities;
  • Innovation

Add Sector or Themes

• Sectors or themes Innovation, one-refugee-approach, skills development, employment, youth, gender, green and digital economies, evidence based decision making.
• Skills development, capacity building and training should only be proposed insofar they are leading to recognized Jordanian occupational certificates through training providers accredited by TVSDC.
• For actions targeting refugee employment, please ensure to align with the sectors of the economy/professions formally open to absorb refugees according to Jordanian Ministry of Labour instructions: e.g. construction including automated activities, industrial development, agriculture, tourism and hospitality, (car and electrical appliances’) maintenance, renewable energy etc.

Funding Information

• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 2,000,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 7,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant

• In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  • be a legal person and
  • be non-profit-making and
  • be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation or international (and/or inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation and
  • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary and
  • be able to prove its ability to work and operate in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; and
  • be established in a Member State of the European Union or Jordan, or eligible countries for NDICI-Global Europe (NDICI-Global Europe Article 28),
  • This obligation does not apply to international organisations

Co-applicant(s)

• At least 1 national co-applicant is required for each Action. The Action shall emanate from the priorities identified by the Jordanian authorities and/or national strategies and evidenced by appropriate consultation with the national stakeholders. There is no maximum number of coapplicants.
• 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.

Affiliated entities

• The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
• Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
• Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
• This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
  • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
• Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
  • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or firsttier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
  • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
  • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
  • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association,…) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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