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Deadline 2 October 2019This project funded by the European Union is implanted by Expertise France with a close cooperation of the Ministry of Planning. The Ministry of Planning is strongly involved in empowering the Civil Society Organizations to disseminate the entrepreneurship culture within their local communities in Libya.Expertise France is the French public international cooperation agency. It designs and implements projects which aim to contribute to the balanced development of partner countries in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and the priorities of Frances external action.Expertise Frances mission is to meet the demand of partner countries seeking to enhance the quality of their public policies in order to address the environmental social economic and security challenges they are facing. The agency achieves this goal by implementing projects in those main fields.EU4PSL ProjectThe EU4PSL is an EU funded project started as of Feb 2019 with an aim of improving Libyas business environment in order to generate economic growth for private sector and job opportunities for youth and in particular for women. This project seeks to assist the government of Libya and all relevant stakeholders in their efforts to promote the development of an open dynamic and diversified economy in Libya.The project will contribute concrete and practical assistance to key Libyan stakeholders who have capacity to accelerate the transition towardsEconomic diversificationImproved competitiveness of Libyan private sector andIncreased role of young and female entrepreneurs in national wealth-creation.The purpose of the present call for proposal is to identify Libyan CSOs with thematic specialisation and capacity to support women and youths economic empowerment.ObjectivesThe specific objectives components of the programme areStrengthen the capacities of Libyan institutions to design and implement actions conducive to MSME development and improve the attractiveness of Libyan economy for investments.This first component addresses the needed improvements in terms of mandate capacity and competence of the fundamental institutional players in Libya in terms of the countrys economic strategy MoE and MoF. An intensive set of activities will be implemented to help move the country out of its centralised rent-based economy and help increasing the role of the private sector. To achieve this however the MoE and MoF will be heavily involved as they have a considerable political influence.The MoE and MoF roles in Libya are extremely broad their mandate is complex but their overall political influence is considerable. Consequently the project focuses on three essential elements which constitute core competences of the MoE and MoF chosen in relation to their potential and capacity to influence and drive change.Support youths and womens economic empowerment and start-up entrepreneurship.The second component spans the entire entrepreneurship chain from pre-entrepreneurship increasing capacity of support services all the way to getting into active business facilitating access to funding for entrepreneurs. There exist several entrepreneurs of highly variable levels of advancement competence and ambition throughout Libya. This component is designed to be able to simultaneously provide its assistance and expertise on an as-needed basis rather than on a chronological or staggered basis.Improve access to finance for MSMEs and start-ups including with innovative financial tools and microfinance.The access to finance component aims at facilitating the access to financial services to Libyan entrepreneurs either by improving the services of the existing financial institutions andor by supporting the establishment of new bodies. The project will continue supporting the reactivation of the Libyan Credit Guarantee fund which was previously carried by SLEIDSE project along with developing new financial tools that had not previously existed within the Libyan market. In order to achieve the optimum results the CBL commercial banks sovereign funds etc. will be directly involved.The overall objective of the action is to improve Libyas business environment in order to generate economic growth for private sector and job opportunities for youth and in particular for women.Building The Capacity Of The Local Civil SocietyComponent 2The aim of the component 2 is to organise and make operational a broad network of entrepreneurship-supporting organisations all over the country. This is expected to create a powerful network of actors and instruments that can be operational quickly.Expertise France and the Ministry of Planning aim is to build andor enhance capacities and visibility of CSOs dealing with youth and women empowerment.The component 2 of this project is divide in 2 outputsEmpowering women by mentoringExpertise France will organise a training to enhance the selected CSOs capacities.The training will divide in 10 thematic workshopsManagement and Human Ressources workshopProgram development workshopCommunication and Marketing workshopPartnerships and Fundraising workshopReporting workshopBusiness modelling workshopAccess to finance workshopMentoring and coaching workshopStudy tourPitching skills workshopAfterward those CSOs will be in charge for 5 months to train and help concretely 2 females entrepreneurs to develop their business.The mission will be among others to help women entrepreneurs toformalize their business plancarry out the registration processteach them how to pitch their idea in front of potential investorsdevelop their marketing and communication strategiesformalize their accounting systemNation-wide Business contests
