NGOs, governmental agencies, multilateral organizations, research firms and academic institutes in the Sub-Saharan Africa can submit proposals for the Inaugural Call for Proposals: Youth Entrepreneurship under the Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment. The Fund has been set up by the Youth Employment Network (YEN) with the support of the Danish sponsored Africa Commission through the Youth Entrepreneurship and the Jacobs Foundation. The Fund intends to contribute to the evidence gap for effective programme design and delivery and will provide technical and financial support to qualified organizatiosn for designing and conducting their impact evaluation.
Under the current call for proposals, only projects whose objectives involve creating self employment opportunities, developing entrepreneurial skills and competences, and improving access to finance will be eligible. Partnerships between youth employment project teams and research institutions are strongly encouraged.
Selection Process:
Stage 1 – Application Form: Qualified proposals will be shortlisted by a selection taskforce and asked to attend a YEN Evaluation Clinic where they will improve and refine their evaluation design.
Stage 2 – Evaluation Plan: After participating in the Clinic, shortlisted candidates will submit a full evaluation plan to the selection taskforce who will then determine financial support.
What are the benefits to shortlisted projects?
1) Travel paid to participate in YEN’s Evaluation Clinic
2) Consultation on how to refine and improve evaluation design
3) Possibility to receive financial support for conducting evaluation upon approval of full evaluation plan
What is the timeline?
Proposals must be submitted using the attached application form by September 7, 2010
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