Request for Application (RFA)-C301: Enhancing access to finance with a particular focus on digital financial services in Somali Region
Background:
STEDE: Strengthened Socio-Economic Development and Better Employment Opportunities (STEDE) for Refugees and host Communities in the Fafan Zone is being implemented by Mercy Corps with funding from the European Union through the EU trust fund. The goal of STEDE is to strengthen socio-economic development and better employment opportunities for target groups (refugees & host communities) in the Fafan Zone of Somali Regional State. This will be achieved through the following three objectives:
- Increase ability of the local/regional economy to create jobs for various skills as per existing and/or potential economic value chains.
- Increase demand-driven skills of the labor force in the intervention areas.
- Refugee and host communities experience improved social integration and access legal rights.
RiPA: Resilience in Pastoralist area- North (RiPA-north) program is a five-year USAID funded program that aims to improve the resilience capacities of households, markets, and governance institutions across 22 woredas in the Somali, Afar and Oromia regions. The program has four components with integrated activities across intervention geographic areas. These components are:
- Improved Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Systems and Capacity.
- Diversified and Sustainable Economic Opportunities for People Transitioning out of Pastoralism (ToPs) particularly youth and women.
- Intensified and Sustained Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing
- Improved and Sustained Nutrition and Hygiene Practices