Deadline: 24-Feb-22
Application are now open for the Call for Solutions in Morocco aims to address the following key challenges to youth employment in the country: low job creation, low levels of women and youth inclusion, low quality of jobs, and a skills mismatch.
The focus of this call is therefore to support the scale up of successful approaches or development and testing of new approaches to:
- increase youth access to new or existing decent jobs; and/or
- improve the quality of jobs for youth.
The Challenge
- CFYE will co-finance entities that offer decent job opportunities through 3 pathways:
- Create: A young person takes up a job/role that has been newly created as a result of the CFYE-funded intervention.
- Match: A young person is matched with or finds a job that may or may not have existed prior to the CFYE-funded intervention.
- Improve: A young person experiences improvements in working conditions within an existing job or business activity as a result of the CFYE-funded intervention.
Principles
- Actively targeting women: The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment makes a deliberate point of creating equal opportunities for young women in the job market
- The Role of Private Sector: We actively welcome partnerships and consortium responses to this challenge.
- Additionality: Given the emphasis on market-based solutions, we will only consider working with Implementing Partners presenting ideas that would not be possible without support from the Fund.
- Youth Engagement: Actively involving youth, and especially young women, is a pre-requisite for being considered as an Implementing Partner of the Fund.
- Taking an integrated approach leading to jobs: Matching supply and demand is a critical element of the Fund’s design.
- Sustainability (long term prospects): As part of the design of each project/investment, prospective Implementing.
Windows
- Manufacturing sectors (automotive, aeronautics, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and agri-businesses)
- This window focuses on mobilizing human capital for medium to high-skilled jobs in industrial growth sectors, particularly for SMEs in the supply chain of these fast-growing sectors. SMEs in key high-value-added sectors require skilled employees to fuel innovation, growth, and competitiveness in the export market.
- Matching programs through ICT-enabled jobs across service sectors (e-commerce, education, health, finance, creative sector, etc.)
- Digital business development services using technology to create new value in business models, customer experiences, and the internal capabilities that support its core operations, have high potential to impact jobs at scale. This window covers e-commerce as well as traditional brick-and-mortar players that are transforming their businesses with digital technologies.
Eligibility Criteria
- CFYE takes a tailored approach to identifying the entities that have the highest potential to address the youth employment challenges in each country.
- Each country and challenge call defines a specific eligibility criteria, that is accessible on website.
- Proposed initiatives and solutions to employment challenges should ideally be led by private sector entities.
- These entities can form a consortium of two or more organisation with other local and international organisations considered critical to delivering the initiative.
- All concept notes and business cases will be assessed based on an objective criteria with a clear preference for those entities and consortia that have the ability to deliver sustainable, business-model driven solutions.
For more information, visit https://fundforyouthemployment.nl/call-for-solutions-morocco/