📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: CARE Austria, Association for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
Country: Europe, regional/cross-country Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2024 End: 30.11.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The overarching goal is that women in the Western Balkans (WB) are empowered and fully access their economic rights. This will be achieved by supporting women’s entrepreneurial activities, fostering their employability and enabling a conducive environment for inclusive economic development in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
Expected results
Output 1. Entrepreneur women in the selected target locations develop and grow environmentally sound businesses through financial and technical support.
Output 2. Raised employability of women in the target locations, through soft skills development, certified vocational education and trainings.
Output 3. Upgraded environment for women’s economic inclusion at community and societal levels.
Output 4. Strengthened capacities of institutional stakeholders to integrate gender sensitive approaches in employability and entrepreneurship programs.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The project will support 350 women with business trainings; 182 women-led businesses with business development support; 2,000 vulnerable women with employability trainings and 200 young women with Vocational Education and Training (VET); 500 men will be included in joint gender norms sessions; 50 VET professionals sensitized to women’s training needs; 400 stakeholders and 80 media representatives included in advocacy activities and campaigns. 10 women-led grassroots CSOs will receive trainings and financial support to engage at community level. 546 employees of supported businesses will consolidate their jobs or be recruited due to improved business operation. Additionally, 40,000 citizens will be addressed through information/social campaigns and more than 400,000 women will benefit from the project advocacy through capacity building and collaborative work with local stakeholders.?
Activities
Mapping of stakeholders, policies, and services affecting women economic Justice (WEJ) across the region. Establishment of an Innovation Fund. (OP 1) Business training and technical support to entrepreneur women for the development and growth of environmentally sustainable businesses. Financial and technical assistance to selected women-led businesses. Facilitation of linkages with value chains and financial services. (OP 2) Identification of labor market needs. Specialized Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses for unemployed women, and awareness raising, employability, and soft skills training for vulnerable women. Sensitization for VET service providers to ensure gender-sensitive training programs. (OP 3) Gender norms and financial literacy sessions and sensitization in communities. Awareness raising campaigns. (OP 4) Additionally, 10 grassroots CSOs will be selecte
