Deadline: 27 February 2017
The Projects Implementing Unit of UNDP Moldova, under the Support from Catalytic Facility of Istanbul Regional Hub, announces the competition for the creation and running of a youth skills observatory to be implemented starting March 2017, and which will cover two inter-linked components of the observatory, i.e. the analytical and experimentation components.
The skills observatory focused on youth is an experiment in itself that UNDP wants to conduct in partnership with local relevant stakeholders and interested parties, to provide tangible results and better inform the authorities and development partners on how the complexity of the labor market can be used to support youth employment.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount the applicants can request under their project proposals budget will not exceed 50,000 USD.
- The expected duration of project is 10 months starting March 2017, ensuring the Observatory operates without further involvement of UNDP for another at least three years, up until end of 2020.
Eligibility Criteria
The Qualifications of the Successful Contractor are the following:
- Be a registered local university, research institution or think-tank with outstanding reputation;
- Be directly responsible for the development and management of the project and not to act through intermediaries; Demonstrate capacity to implement all activities envisaged under the respective project;
- Be able to ensure that Observatory runs for at least another 2 years from the termination of the current project period;
- Individual experts should be able to prove that they possess the needed experience and motivation to conduct research on the envisaged areas of interest for the Observatory, actively learn in the process, share their knowledge with Employment Service and other stakeholders, widely disseminate the analytical results to the wider audiences;
- The Applicant should be able to provide a financial contribution of the project towards the establishment of the Observatory from its own resources, including possible in-kind contribution;
- The Applicant’s staff should be ready and open to actively participate to all capacity building activities of the project, including prospective ETF and other trainings.
- The Applicant is respects and promotes principles of equal opportunities and results for both men and women.
How to Apply
- Interested applicants must send their documents via email at the address given on the website.
- The application package should contain the following documents:
- Application Form (which will include the requested budget and activities timeline), filled in Russian, Romanian or English. Handwritten Application Forms will not be accepted;
- Copy of the registration certificate to prove that the partners are registered legal entities;
- Copy of the Statute of the organizations;
- CVs of key interested internal and/or external staff, including PhD or master students, volunteers, academic staff and similar; (compiled in the same format for the whole team);
- A brief overview of the activities of the applicant (including analytic materials and researches to be developed; tentative experiments to be implemented; materials/information/events for visibility and public information purpose: newspaper articles, audio-/video clips, photo reports from events, etc.);
- Other relevant materials to increase credibility of the Applicant for the donor and to complement the Project justification.
Eligible Country: Moldova
For more information, please visit UNDP-Moldova.