UfM Grant Scheme for the Promotion of Inclusive Digital Trade

Opportunity type : Calls for Proposals
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Digital transformation presents unprecedented opportunities as an enabling tool for economic growth and social inclusion. It can help strengthen linkages between sectors in economies with high levels of informality, such as in Southern countries of the Mediterranean, and it provides smaller companies the chance to expand their markets. However, digitalization can also deepen existing gaps by generating more significant exclusion and distributive inequity. Therefore, comprehensive policies and capacity-building programs appear to be essential to improve the population’s digital skills and to increase women’s participation and inclusion in innovation activities and trade process optimization.

Through this Grant Scheme, the UfM reaffirms its commitment to promoting inclusive digital trade in the region as a vehicle for economic growth, with a focus on the Southern Mediterranean countries.

This Grant Scheme aims to support and increase the participation of relevant entities, such as SMEs, cooperatives, entrepreneurs, social enterprises, and business communities in e-commerce, with a particular focus on business organizations led and operated by women in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia. The Grant Scheme intends to identify and address the challenges business organizations face in e-commerce through training and capacity-building measures.

The specific objectives and priorities of this call for proposals are the listed below.

Countries covered:

  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Morocco
  • Palestine *
  • Tunisia