Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Durable Solutions
  • Integration, Reintegration
• Livelihoods
  • Cash and voucher assistance
  • Self-reliance
  • Technical and vocational education and training

Geographic Focus

• To Ecuador
  • Imbabura Province
  • Manabi Province
  • Guayas Province
  • Azuay Province
  • Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Province
  • Sucumbios Province
  • Francisco de Orellana Province
  • Esmeraldas Province
  • Carchi Province
  • Pichincha Province
  • El Oro Province

Expected Results

• Impact Area
  • Forcibly displaced persons access solutions and achieve effective inclusion in host communities.
    • Outcome 2.1: Forcibly displaced persons benefit from protection-sensitive legal permanence mechanisms, ensuring access to rights that facilitate their local integration and inclusion in social protection policies
      • Outputs: 
        • Awareness-raising initiatives are developed to promote protection, solutions, and social cohesion, as well as to reduce prejudice and xenophobia towards displaced persons.
        • Support is provided to strengthen access to education in safe, inclusive, and protection sensitive learning environments for children and adolescents
    • Outcome 2.2: Forcibly displaced persons have greater access to economic inclusion opportunities, including formal employment, self-employment, training, and support for their financial autonomy
      • Outputs: 
        • Forcibly displaced persons are supported to improve their opportunities for integration into the labor market through Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), with a special focus on youth and women.
        • Forcibly displaced persons are supported to create and manage businesses and ventures with a market- and growth-oriented approach, under safe and fair-trading conditions, and integrated into sustainable value chains and the green economy.
        • UNHCR supports institutions and the private sector to expand access to employment, financial services, and digital inclusion for forcibly displaced persons, promoting their self-sufficiency and economic inclusion.

Selection Criteria

• Sector expertise and experience
• Project management
• Local experience and presence
• Other

For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.

https://www.unpartnerportal.org/landing/opportunities/