Deadline: 20 July 2020
The GFA has been awarded a mandate from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to implement the new regional project “Strengthening Social Entrepreneurship for Migration & Development”.
In line with the overall SDC/GPMD program for the Middle East, GFA has been awarded a mandate through open tender process to implement the inception phase of five months and a main phase. During the inception phase GFA will identify suitable social entrepreneurship support structures and elaborate a full-fledged Project Document including the detailed budget and all related assessments for the approval of the main implementation phase. GFA on behalf of SDC seeks to collaborate with private sector actors, social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship structures to address challenges of migrants and refugees and enhance the benefits of migration. The rationale for engaging with the private sector includes considerations of leveraging complementary funding for achieving the SDGs; the strong focus on sustainability; and the need to find innovative solutions to address existing challenges.
Specifically, GFA plans to collaborate with at least three social entrepreneurship support structures in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt with the aim of contributing to the following tentative Outcomes:
- key stakeholders contribute to creating and enhancing an entrepreneurial ecosystem for migration & development at national and regional levels
- increase in sustainability of migration & development solutions through market-based approach
- entrepreneurs develop, sustainably implement, and potentially scale their migration & development solutions on national, regional and cross-regional levels.
Objectives
This request for Expression of Interest (EOI) is intended to identify Social Entrepreneurship Support Structures (SESTs) who are experienced in providing support services to social entrepreneurs and impact-driven entrepreneurs between January 2021 and June 2023 and who are interested in being included in a short list of pre-identified implementing partners. The rationale for working with SESTs is to capitalize on their ability to select the promising initiatives and their knowhow about quality control, and to sustainably anchor implementation knowledge within the local ecosystem. These partners will be asked in a next step to prepare detailed technical and financial proposals.
It is the aim of the programme to support entrepreneurs who offer products and services benefiting migrants/and or refugees. The number of supported entrepreneurs has not been defined yet and very much depends on the format and the offer of the SESTs.
The entrepreneurs could offer the following services or products which are benefitting migrants and/or refugees:
- Building capacities
- Reducing exploitation
- Migrant enterpreneurs and business
- Products, services or platforms tailored for migrants
Eligibility Criteria
- The SEST should have a good understanding of the challenges and opportunities of social entrepreneurs in one or more of the following countries: Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
- The SEST must have experience in supporting (social) entrepreneurs. Ideally, but not mandatory, related to entrepreneurs providing services or products to migrants and refugees directly or indirectly to ensure economical sustainability.
- The SEST needs to demonstrate a track record of implementing medium scale donor funded projects through the past three years with a minimum total budget of 500k Euros
- The SEST needs the financial capacity to raise or provide 50% co-financing for this project. All sorts of co-financing mechanisms and tools are welcome, priority will be given to entities that shows the capability to engage private sector organisations contribution
- The SEST needs to have / be able to recruit the team capacity to implement such a project.
- The SEST must be registered under the respective country’s rules and regulations. It can be either an NGO, a public organisation or a private sector company that has the legal ability to receive funds.
- Priority will be given to entities that have the capacity to implement projects in more than one country.
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