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The UfM Grant Schemes aim at improving the employment situation, particularly those from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries. People already more vulnerable to economic shocks and restricted mobility, such as informal workers, blue-collar workers, youth and women, are especially affected and thereby the primary target groups. The grant schemes reflect the UfM’s determination to respond to the economic crisis on regional, national, and local levels, by improving the citizens’ employment situation as well as the business environment for entrepreneurs and MSMEs.

As part of its regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UfM launched a Grant Scheme for Employment Promotion in 2020 aiming at improving the employment situation, particularly those from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries.

In February 2023, the UfM launched the new Grant Scheme to Promote Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Green Economy. This Grant Scheme’s global objective is to support the green transformation of the Southern Mediterranean economies with a view of supporting employment promotion in the green economy. The call for not-for-profit organisations is especially designed to benefit vulnerable groups, which are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change and the related changing socio-economic landscape.

“The UfM Grant Schemes reflect the UfM’s determination to respond to the economic crisis on regional, national, and local levels, by improving citizens’ employment situations as well as the business environment for entrepreneurs and MSMEs”. – Nasser Kamel, UfM Secretary General

UfM Grant Scheme for green jobs - 2023

With the Grant Scheme to Promote Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Green Economy, the UfM is actively supporting not-for-profit organisations that work to advance the green transition of economies in the Southern Mediterranean in an inclusive and socially just way.

Building on the previous UfM Grant Scheme, which supported employment promotion projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this Grant Scheme focuses on sustainable approaches to job creation, skill acquisition and entrepreneurship in the green economy.

With the financial support of GIZ, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).

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UfM Grant Scheme for employment - 2020-2022

Four projects were awarded the UfM Grant, benefitting 18,000 individuals in 7 UfM Member States, namely, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco and Tunisia. These projects tackle the labour challenges in the fields of entrepreneurship, women empowerment, sustainable tourism, as well as education and research with an overall budget of 1.13 million euros. The selected projects were: FLOWER (Fostering Local Market Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Resilience); MAST (Mediterranean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism post COVID-19), RISE (Resilience and Innovation through Strengthened Entrepreneurship), SEARChED (Strengthening Employment and entrepreneurial Activities to Recover COVID-19 Epidemic Damages).

The UfM Grant scheme 2020 was supported by the German Development Cooperation, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ)

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