📋 Tender Overview
IATI identifier 46002-P-SS-I00-010
Country South Sudan
Sector Social
High 5 Improve Life of People in Africa
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Environmental Category [3] Low Risk
Climate Safeguards Categorization [3] Projects are not vulnerable to climate risk.
Gender Marker System Categorization [GEN I] Gender Objective
Commitment (UA) 8,000,000
Project General Description
The Job Creation through Youth and Women-led Micro and Small Enterprises Project is anchored on the Bank’s South Sudan Interim Country Strategy Paper (I-CSP) 2022-2024 whose only priority area is ‘agriculture value chain development for economic diversification and resilience’ and the strategic objective of improving institutional, human capacities, and a better enabling environment for value chain development. The Bank’s interim country strategy aims to support South Sudan to develop agricultural value chains to boost agricultural productivity, enhance food and nutrition security, diversify the economy, catalyze entrepreneurship, and create jobs. The Project is also consistent with the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy (2024-2033) whose operational priority is on investing in young people and aims at supporting entrepreneurship and job creation with an emphasis on the role of the private sector.
Project Objectives
The Project development objective is to strengthen the enabling environment for private sector growth and job creation. The specific objectives are: i) Provide livelihood, entrepreneurial skills and business development services for increased employability for youth and women, and enterprise growth; ii) Support micro and small enterprises (MSEs) development along key value chains through improved access to capital and markets; and iii) Strengthen coordination of MSE and private sector development.
Beneficiaries
The JMSE Project will be implemented in 2 States -Northern Bahr-El-Ghazal and Western Bahr-El-Ghazal. The selection of the states was informed by: (i) a high 10 percentage of the population who are vulnerable youth and displaced people needing skills development, livelihood support and sustainable return and reintegration; (ii) reasonable peace, security and accessibility of the states; and (iii) opportunities for sustainability, complementarity because of completed or on-going interventions funded by the Bank and/or other DPs, and higher impact. The direct Project beneficiaries are(i) 1,060 youth (50% women) and 830 women who will be supported in establishing sustainable businesses through 63 VSLAs and 378 youth and women-led MSEs; (ii) 50 already existing early-stage youth-led MSEs (50% women-led) and 50 existing early-stage women-led MSEs will be supported to create at least two new jobs per MSE over the project cycle demonstrating its employability capacity; and (iii) Capacity building of 20 MoTI staff. The beneficiaries will include rural and urban youth and women.
