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INNOVATIVE FINANCIAL SERVICES MODEL TO PROTECT NEPALS WORKERS One quarter of Nepal’s population lives on less than £0.16 per day, and a further 55% lives on less than £0.80.  96.2% of Nepal’s workforce is employed in the ‘informal sector’ – primarily smallholder farmers and landless wage labourers - which means that around 11.3 million workers are deprived of access to formal social protection measures, directly impacting on working conditions, wages, and safety nets such as insurance and access to legal, technical and financial services that guard against times of low economic demand and offset hard times. The proposed project fully contributes towards MDG 1b, ‘Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people’ by increasing the capacity of workers in the informal economy to escape from poverty and better manage risks and shocks.  In many of the poorest, most geographically isolated hill and mountain regions of Nepal, residents rely on “self-help groups” known as Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) for support. VSLAs help marginalised households to access information, peer support and services, as well as creating group-based savings and loan funds, which can then be used as insurance, working capital for self-employment activities, emergency funds, and savings. An estimated 300,000 of these informal VSLAs exist in Nepal, but they often suffer from poor governance and embezzlement and end up failing to carry out the role for which they were created. As a result, many Nepali people often depend heavily on high-risk informal loans to cover consumption and emergency needs, with many families taking annual loans averaging £350 at interest rates exceeding 60% per annum. Many are unable to repay these loans in cash, and therefore often make repayments with crops or take out a second or third loan to repay the first loan, resulting in a cycle of debt from which it is almost impossible to emerge. Facilitating access to formal Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) for informal VSLAs therefore serves as in important intermediary step that allows vulnerable groups to benefit from formal financial services, technical services, and social protection mechanisms. However, to expand access to such formal SACCOs effectively, qualified intermediary organisations like NEFSCUN must be capable of forming and expanding their networks while at the same time enforcing minimum standards of governance and extending legal protection. Whilst NEFSCUN’s activities have proven effective the organisation has yet to reach some of Nepal’s poorest and most underserved districts due to remoteness and the costliness of operating in these areas. Furthermore, given that their Cooperative Development Process remains costly to implement and is not outreach-based, the reach of their network remains constrained. As such, Mercy Corps and NEFSCUN will partner to develop a cost-effective, outreach-based model to reach the vast array of informal, community-based VSLAs already in existence.
Agro-hydro meteorological services Advancement in Ethiopia (CMESA-E) The project aims to establish improved meteorological information provision in Ethiopia. It aims to develop a comprehensive national framework on climate services; to improve the knowledge and evidence base for agro-hydro meteorological services; and to establish and foster stakeholder learning and dialogue platforms on climate services.
NU-TEC Development and Provision of Financial Products for Agribusiness in Uganda The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is supporting the “Northern Uganda: Transforming the Economy through Climate Smart Agribusiness (NU-TEC)” project between 2014 and 2022. The project will provide advice and finance to agribusinesses to support investments which have a beneficial impact on smallholders in Northern Uganda. The purpose of the contract is to design and deliver effective new financial products for agribusiness which minimises subsidy, and maximises the potential for sustained impacts and replication by other FIs.
Resilience Plus – Building Resilience and Ensuring Basic Needs for the most vulnerable in Nepal Responding to Covid 19 impacts and maintaining resilience of the most vulnerable populations. Objective 1: Vulnerable households are able to meet their basic food and non-food needs through the receipt of emergency assistance.

Objective 2: Improved awareness on Covid-19 prevention & mitigation, nutrition, hygiene practices, key protection messaging, information on social protection schemes and referral services

Objective 3: Strengthening social protection pathways & access to services including government social protection schemes
Food Security and Inclusive Access to Resources for Conflict Sensitive Market Development (FARM) Mercy Corps and Search for Common Ground propose a 48-month intervention to improve the socioeconomic and security conditions of about 25,000 households (150,000 men, women, girls and boys) in North Kivu province, DRC. This goal will be achieved through considering all the market actors, systems and functions – as well as contributing contextual factors – that prevent smallholder farmers and small entrepreneurs (impact group) from increasing their incomes and their food security situation. Under Strategic Objective 1, the programme will bring the government and citizenry together to allow the target population to increasingly benefit from quality and accountable state services related to land use, agricultural production and markets. Under Strategic Objective 2, FARM will strengthen and diversify agricultural and non-agricultural livelihoods of target households through increasing their capacity to respond to market demand and ensuring that they sustainably access services and goods that are adapted to their needs from private and public market actors. The programme will be divided into a 6-month inception phase, followed by 2.5 years of extensive support to market actors through facilitative approaches, and one year dedicated to monitoring improved market exchanges and additional programme investments to achieve scale and sustainability. The programme will be implemented in 120 villages, selected across 5 Chefferies of the Goma Hinterland Outcome 1.1: Systemic constraints to land access, including conflict management systems, are inclusively improved. Outcome 1.2: Barriers to formal control of land are reduced, especially for women and youth.  Outcome 2.1: Market actors from different communities collaborate to increase market access, especially for women and youth. Outcome 2.2: Market actors / institutions develop inclusive accessible by vulnerable chain actors Outcome 2.3: Joint-community planning and management improve natural resource use
Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund As the Short Term Consultant for DFID’s Catalytic Jobs Fund, Mercy Corps will build on our experience driving job creation and private sector growth across Africa to facilitate market-driven employment opportunities for young and vulnerable people in urban and ASAL regions of Kenya. Our approach as Short Term Consultant, will draw on our existing pipelines, systems, team members and network as found in Mercy Corps’ Google-funded Social Impact Lab Programme, in addition to our regional and global experience as fund managers. Further, Mercy Corps will leverage our demonstrated experience in both urban and rural areas to tackle the barriers to firm entry and growth which limit the generation of jobs that are suitable for Kenya’s burgeoning youth population. Employing a market-oriented strategy, our team will build on an existing pipeline of opportunities, identify additional key market opportunities, pilot and measure the impact of innovative job creation approaches and position the Catalytic Jobs Fund for success in Phase III.
North East Nigeria Conflict management and Stabilisation Component 300309-101 The programme will increase societal and individual resilience to violent extremism in northeast Nigeria by strengthening government and civil-society efforts to address key grievances, increase economic opportunities for youth, and set the stage for successful reintegration of former members of violent groups and their victims. (1) Strengthened capacity for communities to engage government and security forces leading to increased trust in the ability of Borno State and local governments to address community needs (including provision of basic services and security). (2) Reducing youth participation in violence due to active engagement in communal and economic activities. (3) Increased capacity of communities to collaborate across lines of division to prevent violence and promote peaceful integration.
“Humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people displaced by conflict in northern Iraq”, In Iraq Mercy Corps’ has established a flexible rapid response mechanism that allows for prompt distribution of NFI kits to meet IDP needs.  Direct distribution will be selected in cases where the contents of packages match needs, where families are unable to access markets, where market prices have become very inflated, or where doing so would be burdensome or dangerous due to gender, security, or other concerns. Alternatively, Mercy Corps will support IDPs with an unconditional cash transfer (£125 per household), which is appropriate when the target households have heterogeneous needs, remain highly mobile, and require assistance quickly in areas that are difficult to access. Specific activities will include:
•	Engagement with local partners
•	Local procurement of programme materials 
•	Beneficiary selection
•	Mechanism for Distribution;
Marketing/Storage/Processing: Project for the Economic Empowerment of Ethnic Minorities in Poor Communes of Dak Nong Province The project goal is to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the livelihoods of poor and ethnic minority households in Dak Nong Province. The purpose of the project would be to increase incomes of poor and near poor ethnic minority households, with a particular focus on women.Policy and institutional objectivesThe project would contribute to the institutional strengthening of Provincial officials to work with ethnic minority groups, particularly women, in a participatory manner and to integrate their priorities into the government planning process. The project will also develop the capacities of Government to develop demand-led value chains in which farmers would improve their net return from the production of quality products. The project would promote empowerment of people to escape poverty through collective action, i.e. setting up of Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) and Savings and Credit Groups (SCGs).
Agricultural Development: Participatory Resource Management Project - Tuyen Quang Province Agricultural Development: Participatory Resource Management Project - Tuyen Quang Province
Rural Development: Programme for Improving Market Participation of the Poor in Ha Tinh and Tra Vinh Provinces Rural Development: Programme for Improving Market Participation of the Poor in Ha Tinh and Tra Vinh Provinces
Rural Development: Sustainable Rural Development for the Poor Project in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh Provinces The goal of the project shall be to sustainably improve income and reduce vulnerability of rural poor households in targeted upland land areas of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces The objective of the project shall be to invest in climate smart, socially equitable and profitable rural development models that promote pro-poor market linkages, value chains and enhanced rural business competitiveness
Agricultural Development: Ha Tinh Rural Development Project Agricultural Development: Ha Tinh Rural Development Project
Agricultural Development: Agricultural Resources Conservation and Development Project in Quang Binh Province Agricultural Development: Agricultural Resources Conservation and Development Project in Quang Binh Province
Rural Development: Pro-Poor Partnerships for Agroforestry Development Project The proposed development objective of the Project is to achieve sustainable and equitable poverty reduction and improved livelihoods of the rural poor in Bac Kan.The policy and institutional objective is to establish a framework for sustainable and profitable agroforestry development in Bac Kan Province that targets rural poor households.
Rural Development: Rural Income Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang Province Rural Development: Rural Income Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang Province
Credit and Financial Services: Climate Smart Agricultural Value Chain Development in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Provinces The goal of CSAT is to support sustainable agricultural development for adaptation to the climate change in the Mekong Delta in Ben Tre and contribute to sustainable agricultural development through development of climate smart agricultural value chains in Tra Vinh province.
Rural Development: Developing Business with the Rural Poor Programme Key programme objectives. The Programme goal is sustainable and equitable reduction in rural poverty, which is in strong harmony with the policies and strategies set out in Viet Nam''s Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) 2006-2010. The purpose is that rural poor benefit from improved market participation in Ben Tre and Cao Bang Provinces. Policy and institutional objectivesThe Programme will improve the business and investment environment by creating a legislative/ regulatory framework and institutional capacity to enable profitable enterprise investments and improve business development services along value chains both to support farmers and to increase the contribution of intermediate enterprises.
Rural Development: Decentralized Programme for Rural Poverty Reduction in Ha Giang and Quang Binh Provinces Rural Development: Decentralized Programme for Rural Poverty Reduction in Ha Giang and Quang Binh Provinces
Rural Development: Ha Giang Development Project for Ethnic Minorities Rural Development: Ha Giang Development Project for Ethnic Minorities
Rural Development: Project for Adaption to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Provinces The Objective of the project is to 'strengthen the adaptive capacity of target communities and institutions to better contend with climate change".
Rural Development: Commodity-oriented Poverty Reduction Programme in Ha Giang Province The goal of the programme is to sustainably improve the incomes and reduce the vulnerability of rural poor households in targeted Ha Giang communes. The development objective is to ensure that targeted private agricultural enterprises and farm households collaborate in a new provincial rural economy that is profitable and sustainably pro-poor, climate-smart and market-oriented.
Rural Development: Agriculture, Farmers and Rural Areas Support Project in Gia Lai, Ninh Thuan and Tuyen Quang Provinces The Project's goal is to increase the quality of life for rural people, especially those living in the most disadvantaged areas (as described in Tam Nong). The development objective is the sustained and lucrative economic participation of 73,800 ethnic minority and rural poor households living in Tuyen Quang, Gia Lai, and Ninh Thuan provinces.The Project seeks to improve the policy and institutional framework for decentralisation; to increase and improve private sector engagement in rural areas and agriculture; and to increase inclusion of the rural poor, particularly ethnic minorities, in local planning, decision making and development processes.
Rural Development: Commercial Smallholder Support Project in Bac Kan and Cao Bang The goal of the project is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in Bac Kan and Cao Bang. The development objective is to sustainably improve income and reduced climate vulnerability of poor and near-poor farm households in targeted project communes.
SUPPORTING SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED MANUFACTURERS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT INDUSTRY IN SERBIA PHASE II: DEEPENING AND WIDENING THE SERVICES ON CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT TOWARDS E
Youth and women employment and entrepreneurship development in Serbia The main goal of the proposed project is to assist the Government of Serbia in its efforts to promote the economic empowerment of women and youth, through the creation of job opportunities in the productive sectors of the economy and by supporting entrepreneurship development. To this end, the project will adopt an integrated approach and address the institutional and enterprise levels to assist the Government of Serbia, local public and private institutions, and other relevant stakeholders to create an enabling environment for the promotion and encouragement of youth and women entrepreneurship as well as skills development.  The project#s focus lies on establishing an entrepreneurial ecosystem, which builds on multi-stakeholder partnerships, and which improves the economic and social participation of youth and women by increasing their opportunities for productive activities. This will be achieved by harnessing the potential of youth and women as innovative entrepreneurs, and consequently as agents of change to tackle social and economic challenges in their local communities. To this end, the project will strengthen the skills of entrepreneurs and generally youth and women, as well as reinforce the intermediate financial and non-financial support structures, for these to provide quality services. At the same t
Preparation of Kigali HFC implementation - Serbia Preparation of an HFC phase-down plan - Serbia. This project aims to help the country to be prepared for the Kigali Amendment,
Enabling activities for HFC phase-down in Serbia The objective of the implementation of the enabling activities is to allow for the early ratification of the Kigali Amendment and to help Serbia to fulfill their initial obligations with regard to HFC phase-down in line with the Kigali Amendment, in line with the ExCom Decision 79/46.
Promoting smart manufacturing through innovation system building in Serbia The Ministry of Innovation and Technological Development of the Government of Serbia requested UNIDO, in its letter dated 24 October 2019, to explore the potential opportunities and modalities of cooperation to accelerate the digital transformation of Serbian society through innovation and technological development. Following funds mobilization efforts and consultations with the Government of Slovenia and the Slovene Enterprise Fund at UNIDO Headquarters on 5 December 2019 and 29 January 2020, the Slovenian government expressed its interest to fund the technical cooperation project on manufacturing innovation in Serbia. In consultation with representatives of University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Manufacturing Engineering; the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences; the Cabinet of Minister for Innovation and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia; the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MGRT) of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovene Enterprise Fund (SEF) on the above Serbian government request to UNIDO, this project document was developed.  The project objective is fostering manufacturing innovation in Serbia through innovation system and business ecosystem development. The project will establish a pilot Smart Manufacturing Innovatio
ODS Alternatives Survey - Serbia Preparation of a survey on the availability of alternative technologies to ozone depleting substances (ODSs).The objective of this proposal is to conduct a detailed national survey on Serbia's industrial sectors relying on HFCs (HFC consumption, distribution and uses). It will analyze historical and predicted consumption trends and correlate data with the ongoing monitoring of HCFC consumption while taking into account the uptake of various existing technologies, revise the scenarios for current and future demand elaborated in the report to the Meeting of the Parties' (MOP) Decision XXV/5, and improve information related to costs and benefits with regard to the criteria listed above.
Enabling Activities to Review and Update the National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) The overall objective of the proposed Enabling Activities (EA) is to update and review the National Implementation Plan (NIP), and have it endorsed and submitted by the Government to the Stockholm Convention Conference of Parties (COP). Participating stakeholders will be able to manage the additional POPs with newly developed technical skills, expertise and awareness.
HCFC Phase Out Management Plan (Stage II) The HCFC Phase-out Management Plan for Serbia was approved in December 2010 at the 62nd Meeting of Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol. The project was approved in accordance with the Agreement between the Government and the Executive Committee for the period 2011 to 2020 to meet the 35 per cent reduction in HCFC consumption.  The second phase aiming to achieve 67.5% reduction in 2025 will be prepared and submitted in 2019.
Institutional Strengthening project EXTENSION OF THE INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING - PHASE IV and PHASE V The main objective of institutional strengthening in eligible countries should be to provide a national institutional mechanism for co-ordinating within these countries national and international efforts for the protection of the ozone layer generally and in particular facilitate actions aimed at speedy phase-out of ozone depleting substances in the countries. (source UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/7/20)
Promoting the adaptation and adoption of RECP (resource efficient and cleaner production) in Serbia through the  Cleaner Production Centre (CPC) - Phase II Phase II of the UNIDO project for the NCPC in Serbia aims at further enhancing the resource productivity, competitiveness and environmental performance of industry in Serbia. It will support the adaptation and adoption of resource efficient and cleaner production (RECP) methods, practices, technologies and policies, providing national industries with the necessary tools to facilitate access to national and regional markets with environmentally sound products and improve the ability of national enterprises to successfully negotiate their position in the global market.  The present project builds on the results and lessons learned during the implementation of the UNIDO Phase I for establishing a National Cleaner Production Centre in Serbia which has been ongoing since 2007 and the good cooperation with the national host institution, the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade.  After Phase I of project implementation, the market for RECP is not yet fully developed and the Centre has not reached its full self -sustainability. Additional efforts for RECP promotion and capacity building as well as up-scaling of RECP application at company are required. Taking into consideration that an important barrier for RECP implementation is lack of financial incentives and/or #green credit# lines, th
Inclusive and low carbon production (ILCP) and Chemical Leasing in meat and dairy value chains in the Republic of Serbia The objective of the project is to enhance productivity and reduce environmental impact of meat and dairy value chains in Serbia through the development and implementation of inclusive low carbon and resource efficient production, chemical leasing and alignment of related legislation in terms of sustainability and inclusiveness.
Environmentally sound management and final disposal of PCBs - PREPARATORY ASSISTANCE This is the Project Preparation Grant (PPG) Phase of Project 100313 which aims to protect human health and environment and to contribute to the overall capacity for development of sound management of chemicals by assisting Republic of Serbia, particularly in establishing the environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs, as well as in identification and prioritization of PCBs contaminated sites.