Deadline- 30 April 2013
Applications are invited for Implementation of the Workforce Development (WFD) for Youth in Mexico to strenthen Education-to-Employment Systems. This program is funded under United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The mission of this program is to support Mexican initiatives at a systemic level to increase labor market skills acquisition among youth, adapt upper- and post-secondary education and training programs to labor market needs, and increase portability of skills across the education, training and labor market systems.
This activity will support systemic changes that facilitate job search and skills matching for youth entering the workforce and strengthen competency-based certification. In addition, this activity will seek to support and assist Mexican governmental, non-governmental, private sector and academic institutions to work together to adopt, implement, and account for more effective policies that address critical workforce skills gap-related issues, creating necessary linkages for the education to employment continuum to function more effectively.
USAID expects to fund the program in the amount of approximately $3,000,000 – $4,000,000 over a period of 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria-
- This is a full and open competition, under which all potential applicants may apply, large or small commercial (for profit) firms and non-profit organizations (including public or private universities) in partnerships or consortia.
- USAID will accept applications from U.S. or Non-U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
- USAID especially encourages applications directly from local Mexican organizations. USAID encourages other non-Mexican organizations to include a significant and substantive role for local Mexican organizations in the activity to take advantage of considerable local expertise and to strengthen activity sustainability.
- USAID also encourages the formation of partnerships or consortia and the leveraging of private sector resources to meet program objectives.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number.SOL-523-13-000011
