OPPORTUNITY BACKGROUND
In this regard, ICMPD has started to implement the European Union funded “Enhancement of Entrepreneurship Capacities for Sustainable Socio-Economic Integration (ENHANCER) Project” in close cooperation with the General Directorate of Development Agencies under the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry and Technology as of January 2020. The EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT) was established in 2016 in response to the European Council’s call for significant additional funding to support Syrian refugees in Turkey. FRiT provides for a joint coordination mechanism, designed to ensure that the needs of refugees and host communities in Turkey addressed in a comprehensive and coordinated manner with a total of EUR 6 billion budget in two tranches.
The aim of the ENHANCER project seeks to enable the SuTPs and the local host communities (LHCs) in developing new and growing businesses to provide sustainable jobs and livelihoods and develop a sustainable enabling institutional environment. The framework consists of modular strategies and actions that can be tailored to different types of regional, sectoral and socio-cultural settings.
OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE
In that sense, the specific objectives of the project are defined as:
- to increase the entrepreneurial activity of the SuTPs and the LHCs by providing an enabling environment and support in creation of new products and markets, which are tradable beyond the local market. This will be the entrepreneurial line focus of the project,
- Local entrepreneurial ecosystems are more effective and inclusive for the SuTPs and the LHCs. This will be the ecosystem line focus of the project,
- Policy development related to socio-economic integration and coordination of the implementation of those policies are improved in a structured manner at the national, regional and local levels. This will be the policy line focus of the project
- Employment opportunities of the the SuTPs and local host communities increased through better services and reinforced ecosystem and economic actors within the prioritized sectors. This will be the jobcreation line focus of the project
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME AND PRIORITY ISSUES
The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to a more inclusive and effective local entrepreneurial ecosystem in line with national and regional/local economic development policies.
The specific objective of this call for proposals is creating new or enhancing current Local Common Use Facilities as critical focal point as entrepreneurial hubs/community centres in which SuTPs and LHCs peers can interact and have access to several services they need.
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- Improving inclusive business creation and scaling up services;
- Strengthening networking and export capacity based on SuTP and LHC’s entrepreneurs’ skills and commercial/social connections;
- Upgrading technical and institutional capacity of LCUFs.
FINANCIAL ALLOCATION PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 4 150 000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
COMPETITIVE SCOPE
Eligibility of applicants (i.e. lead applicant and co-applicant(s))
Lead applicant
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with, if any, coapplicant(s), preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), not acting as an intermediary and
- be a specific type of organisation operating in Business Support and Entrepreneurship Development and
- be Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Chambers of Commodity Exchange or Unions of tradesmen and craftsmen chambers or Municipalities or
- be an organisation such as Common Use Facilities, Business Incubators, Entrepreneurship Centres, Vocational Training Centres (which are not affiliated to Ministry of Education and which are not part of formal education and linked to business support organisations or universities), Technoparks, Organized Industrial zones, Technology Development Zones, Universities. (Legal entities exclusively refer to legal personalities defined by their respective laws: To be determined on the basis of the organisation’s statutes, which should demonstrate that it has been established by an instrument governed by the Turkish national law.) and
- be established in Ankara, Adana, Bursa, Hatay, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Konya or Mersin, Turkey.
Where and how to apply
Applications (application form, other annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted on the ICMPD electronic Application Platform at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/icmpd/aspx/Tenders/Appraisal. Applications sent by any other means (e.g. by email or post) will be rejected.
Applicants must register their organisation on the platform. Once registered, applicants can access all Call for Proposals documents and annexes. The manual “how to register and apply” is available for download on the platform at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/icmpd/aspx/BuyerProfiles.
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