Deadline: 12-Jun-2025
The Skills, Training, and Education Program (STEP) partners are pleased to announce this call for proposals (CfP) which aimed at reducing poverty and improving livelihoods through supporting refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and host communities in IsDB member countries.
STEP Strategic Partners include: the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), Spark, International Islamic Charity Organization (ICCO), Qatar Charity, Al Awn Foundation for Development, Jusoor, and Shaikh Abdullah Al Nouri Charity Society.
This CfP aims to empower marginalized forcibly displaced communities through transformative initiatives that equip them with essential tools for sustainable socioeconomic progress by addressing educational and skills development gaps and inspiring hope, purpose, and self-sufficiency among young refugees, IDPs, and vulnerable host communities.
Focus
- STEP will contribute to:
- Increasing access to education, focusing on smart education.
- Providing skills development and entrepreneurship incubators; and
- Creating green jobs for the beneficiaries.
Funding Information
- Successful applicants will be awarded the requested funding based on the strength and impact of their proposals, given the STEP partners accepted to fund. IsDB has the right to reject or accept in full or partial any submitted proposal.
Benefit
- By the end of 2027, the program is expected to benefit 650,000 children and youth of refugees, IDPs, and host communities. The program will also contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); SDGs 1, 4, 5, 8, 16, and 17.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations eligible to apply must:
- Be an NGO, civil society organization, or an academic institution or a consortium of any of them.
- To have a physical office and an implementing capacity in one of the countries targeted by the Program (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Cameroon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Türkiye, Uganda, Palestine, and Yemen).
- Have a minimum of three years’ experience or one year of experience supported by two recommendation letters from STEP partners in delivering relevant services.
- Have a proven track record in similar projects related to STEP determinants.
- Demonstrate their achievements to date.
- Demonstrate good practice in corporate governance and financial management (attach an NGO profile, Audit reports, reference letters, certificates, and recognition letters).
- Demonstrate capacity to contribute financially (i.e. state clearly the financial funds available for the project) or mobilize additional resources for the project of focus (i.e. demonstrate capability and plan to secure additional funding required for the proposed project) to maximize the impact of the project.
For more information, visit IsDB.