The Youth Employment Network (YEN), a partnership of the United Nations, International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank has issued a call for applications for the “The Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment.”
The “The Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment” has been set up to contribute to the evidence gap for effective programme design and delivery. It will provide technical and financial support to qualified organizations for designing and conducting their impact evaluation. The Fund’s contribution to the evaluation will range from US$5,000 to US$80,000, which means projects will have to bring in co-funding or fundraise to cover the evaluation full costs. Funding will only go to support monitoring and evaluation and will not cover any cost associated with project delivery.
Short-listed applicants will receive the following benefits:
- Expenses paid for one participant in the Tanzania Evaluation Clinic in September 2012
- Intensive training on M&E methodologies and techniques
- Assignment of an evaluation expert who will be focused on the organization’s evaluation live case during the clinic
- Exposure to the other clinic participant’s experiences and lessons during the work on their live cases
- Access to knowledge sharing portal and a youth entrepreneurship community of practice
- The selected grantees will get all of the above benefits plus seed funding.
Eligible organizations include NGOs / CSOs / CBOs, training organizations, bilateral or multilateral agencies, public-private partnerships, social enterprises or social entrepreneurs as long as they implementing a youth project in Sub-Saharan Africa. Only projects whose objectives involve creating self employment opportunities, developing entrepreneurial and self employment skills and competences, and improving access to finance will be eligible. Applicants must demonstrate a clear project implementation approach and at least 2 years of experience in project implementation. Organizations must also have an annual total operating budget of at least USD$ 250,000. The working language will be English.
The deadline to submit applications is 15 August 2012. For more information, visit this link.
Our organization: Africa Youth for Peace and Development Malawi, would like to participate in this project. Would you please send us the information for the project.
we are not yet officially registered as full ngo, a we eligiable for the program?
Dear YEN Team Members,
I works as a Program Coordinator for a local NGO based in Northern Uganda called Information for Youth Empowerment Programme (IYEP-Uganda)which was formed by some few formerly abducted youth and some who were not abducted but wished to joint hand in July 2004. Since its inception, the organization has specialized in youth empowerment through formal education, vocational, agri-business, peace building and psycho-social support. IYEP target group includes; Children born from captivity and orphans, formerly abducted youth, child mothers,youth with anti-social behaviors, disable youth and caretakers.
IYEP passed projects in relation to youth empowerment includes: “Peace building, Livelihood and Education Project-PELEP”, IYEP Young Mothers Hope Project”, “Community Based Reintegration Programme-CBRP”, “Victims to Victors Project-V2V-Project”, Capacity Building for Women and Youth Land Rights Project” and Karamoja Food Security and Community Stabilization Programme targeting female headed households”.
This call would have been of interest and much benefit to us and other organizations who may wished to borrow best practices in working with youth ,but our annual income for the year 2011 was USD 147,638 only which is below your eligibility criteria. May you please advise?
Hoping to hear from you. You are free to google IYEP Uganda at http://www.iyepuganda.org for more information.
Please send me the info for the project.
Thank you for your co-operation.