prior to applying Your team has an innovative idea for a Apply for LOT 1 solution that contributes to tackling the issue of youth unemployment and employability in Benefits: the targeted geographic area, but the idea is not fully developed. You will have an opportunity and resources to develop your innovative solution into a project proposal that will You need additional time and resources to be ready for experimentation and testing. work on further development of the proposed solution. (For example, you need to perform additional problem analysis for your local context, and/or beneficiary assessment, and/or assessment of stakeholders, and/or resources to work with partners to plan innovative project activities, budget, implementation plan and/or defining roles, etc.). Your team has an innovative solution ready Apply for LOT 2 for experimentation and testing. It means problem is well analyzed and understood, Benefits: both beneficiaries and stakeholders are mapped and consulted, and all activities are You will have an opportunity to test your solution in well planned. practice, develop and apply a system for monitoring the implementation, develop all procedures and document all steps in the implementation, roles and responsibilities of partners involved, and evaluate both externally and internally your solution and its contribution to tackling youth employment and employability. Another benefit of testing the solution is an opportunity to build partnerships with stakeholders from the private and public sectors in the implementation, and explore options for sustainability of the solution after the grant support ends. Your team has an innovative solution that Apply for LOT 2 addresses the issue of youth employment and employability that has been Benefits: implemented. Now, your team wants to improve the solution by applying lessons You will have an opportunity to improve your solution and learned from the earlier stages, based on to test the (improved) solution; develop a sustainability internal and external monitoring and plan. evaluation, feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders, as well as against achieved results. You also want to develop a
prior to applying Your team has an innovative idea for a solution that contributes to tackling the issue of youth unemployment and employability in the targeted geographic area, but the idea is not fully developed. You need additional time and resources to work on further development of the proposed solution. (For example, you need to perform additional problem analysis for your local context, and/or beneficiary assessment, and/or assessment of stakeholders, and/or resources to work with partners to plan innovative project activities, budget, implementation plan and/or defining roles, etc.). Apply for LOT 1 Benefits: You will have an opportunity and resources to develop your innovative solution into a project proposal that will be ready for experimentation and testing. Your team has an innovative solution ready for experimentation and testing. It means problem is well analyzed and understood, both beneficiaries and stakeholders are mapped and consulted, and all activities are well planned. Apply for LOT 2 Benefits: You will have an opportunity to test your solution in practice, develop and apply a system for monitoring the implementation, develop all procedures and document all steps in the implementation, roles and responsibilities of partners involved, and evaluate both externally and internally your solution and its contribution to tackling youth employment and employability. Another benefit of testing the solution is an opportunity to build partnerships with stakeholders from the private and public sectors in the implementation, and explore options for sustainability of the solution after the grant support ends. Your team has an innovative solution that addresses the issue of youth employment and employability that has been implemented. Now, your team wants to improve the solution by applying lessons learned from the earlier stages, based on internal and external monitoring and evaluation, feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders, as well as against achieved results. You also want to develop a Apply for LOT 2 Benefits: You will have an opportunity to improve your solution and to test the (improved) solution; develop a sustainability plan.
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