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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

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.

Published:04/04/2023