Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme – Jordan

The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to stimulate sustainable and inclusive employment through entrepreneurship and innovation.

The specific objective of this call for proposals is to enhance women’s access to economic opportunities, by providing technical and capacity building and financial resources to existing and new women entrepreneurs and initiatives, strengthening business associations, women cooperatives CSOs and CBOs capacity to sustain further support.

Priorities

The priorities of this call for proposals is/are:

• Increased technical and financial competencies of targeted groups, in particular women entrepreneurs in rural areas;
• Enhanced research and innovation capabilities in the entrepreneurship ecosystem with a focus on innovative, sustainable and inclusive business models;
• Knowledge generation, awareness raising and evidence-based advocacy at public and private sector levels to enhance and promote gender-sensitive policy dialogue and innovative women entrepreneurship opportunities; and
• Enhanced role of civil society in promoting an entrepreneurship culture, including organisations addressing economic empowerment, gender equality, social inclusion and participation of marginalised groups.
• Enhanced women economic justice through fair economic structures, inclusive market systems and social norms.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3 500 000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 3 300 000
  • maximum amount: EUR 3 500 000
• Duration: The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 30 months.

Location

• Actions must take place in the following country: Jordan

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisations, community based Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), public sector operators, local authorities and economic private operators such as business associations or chambers of commerce and
    • be established in either i) a Member State of the European Union or ii) the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan or iii) a Member State and contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • 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.
  • Academic institutions, research institutions and think tanks;
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
• 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 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 first-tier 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.

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