Challenge Fund for Youth Employment Information

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Challenge Fund for Youth Employment Information Session on Call for Solutions | Morocco January 21, 2022 Agenda Introduction – 5 mins The Fund explained – 15 mins Scoping Research: The Challenge in Morocco – 25 mins Call for Solutions & Selection Priorities – 15 mins Application and Submission process – 5 mins FAQs and Q&A – 25 mins Who is on this call? Nimrah Karim: Country Lead, Morocco Sanae El-Ouali: Portfolio Development Consultant Lhoussaine Wahib: Research Consultant Nour Serry: Manager, CFYE Meriem Boukhari: Associate, CFYE Luc Shillings: Head Economic Affairs Adil Rataib: Economic & Trade Affairs Officer Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Rabat Pigeonhole allows you to: Ask questions as you think of them Vote for your favourite questions Questions are totally anonymous Time allocated at the end for CFYE team to answer all questions To submit a question, go to the website www.pigeonhole.at and enter the password 8BZCRR Pigeonhole Explained The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment About the Fund 1 Partners The Challenge Fund Explained Decent employment for 200,000 young people By 2025, the fund aims to create decent employment for 200,000 young people including 100,000 women in the Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa (including Kenya and Uganda). Competitive challenges with focus on young women We will run several competitive context-specific challenges per year to address supply, demand, or job-placement constraints to creating more jobs and/or improving the quality of work for people, especially women, aged 15-35 in the focus countries. Goal Approach What the Fund offers In-kind technical support will be available throughout the selection process and during implementation to maximise delivery of results. Technical Assistance The total project budget must have a minimum value of 200,000 Euro. We will support approximately 5-7 projects in Morocco Co-investment The Fund will co-invest a maximum of 50% of the total project budget. Match A young person is matched with, or finds a job that may or may not have existed prior to the CFYE co-funded intervention Improve A young person experiences improvements in working conditions within an existing job or business activity as a result of the CFYE co-funded intervention Create A young person takes up a job that has been newly created as a result of the CFYE co-funded intervention Applicants will propose how they will... Selection Criteria Demonstrate how project will result in at least 250-500 young people working in decent