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Call for applications to support micro-business start-ups for internally displaced people (IDPs) and war victims

29/07/2022

The ‘Community.Social Projects Lab’ NGO announces a call for applications to support IDPs and other Ukrainians affected by the war in starting their own business.

Support is provided within the framework of the EU-funded BackHomeUA project that aims to facilitate the return and adaptation of Ukrainians in new hosting communities and communities that suffered from occupation or war actions.

The organisation helps create new jobs through entrepreneurship development, providing mini-grants, legal and marketing support, facilitating negotiations with local authorities, searching for temporary housing, etc.

The project focuses on two groups of beneficiaries:

  • IDPs or refugees who return from abroad and become IDPs because they cannot live at home due to hostilities, occupation, or destruction;
  • residents of de-occupied or affected-by-hostilities communities who suffered human or material losses.

For the first group, the priority is to adapt to a new place by finding a job and housing, and getting socially integrated into a new community. The challenge for the second group is to adapt to new circumstances when income sources are lost, housing is damaged, etc.

The BackHomeUA project will support both groups by helping them become micro-entrepreneurs through opening a сlosing studio, a mini-bakery, or a children’s club. IDPs will receive support on the condition that they are ready to work as entrepreneurs in a new place for at least one year.

Registration as an entrepreneur is a mandatory condition to receive support. The participants will be entitled to a mini-grant, the amount of which varies from EUR 500 up to EUR 2 000. In addition, the beneficiaries will be consulted in business plan development and provided with organisational, legal and marketing support.

The main criteria for the selection of applications are entrepreneurial motivation, willingness to learn and master new skills, and understanding of business investment needs and the communities’ demand for the proposed types of micro-businesses.

Candidates must fill in the form to apply. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

The first stage of the project will last until 31 December 2022.

For more detailed information about the project, please visit the Facebook page.

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