[{"bbox": [140, 151, 1133, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "This implementation entails output 2.1.–2.2. (Enhanced business skills of MSMEs including youth and women and improved creditworthiness of MSMEs)."}, {"bbox": [140, 217, 750, 244], "category": "Text", "text": "The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [184, 258, 1132, 311], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Financing and promotional services aligned with the UN Agenda 2030 and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."}, {"bbox": [184, 325, 1132, 379], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Experience in effectively exercising or planning to undertake activities within the field of development finance for the private sector in countries outside the European Union"}, {"bbox": [184, 392, 1132, 446], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Technical competencies in managing over EUR 5 000 000 in private sector development programmes in developing countries."}, {"bbox": [184, 459, 1132, 540], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Working experience in Africa, if possible in Ethiopia with government institutes, donor agencies, local development and commercial banks, and private sector in the area of private sector development."}, {"bbox": [140, 552, 1132, 605], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [128, 631, 622, 658], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.3 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity"}, {"bbox": [140, 686, 1132, 738], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)."}, {"bbox": [140, 751, 1132, 858], "category": "Text", "text": "This implementation entails output 3.1 to 3.3 (Improved capacity of financial service providers to serve mass market customers, leveraging digital financial services DFS and agent banking network; Improved value proposition of financial service providers to MSMEs; Enhanced inclusiveness of financial services in serving the needs of MSMEs including youth and women)."}, {"bbox": [140, 870, 754, 897], "category": "Text", "text": "The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [184, 911, 1132, 990], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The entity contributions align with the UN Agenda 2030 and SDGs, primarily to SDG 1, with a focus on reaching the last mile and addressing exclusion and inequalities of access, and SDG 17, with a focus on unlocking public and private finance for the poor at the local level."}, {"bbox": [184, 1004, 1132, 1058], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Technical competencies in managing over EUR 5 000 000 in digital financial service provision development programmes in developing countries."}, {"bbox": [184, 1072, 801, 1099], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Implementing EU funded projects in Africa including Ethiopia."}, {"bbox": [140, 1111, 1132, 1164], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [158, 1191, 870, 1222], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5 Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [140, 1250, 1132, 1330], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply."}, {"bbox": [140, 1342, 1132, 1449], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realization of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [158, 1476, 412, 1506], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6 Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [130, 1519, 1140, 1627], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Indicative Budget components</td><td>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</td><td>Third-party contribution, (amount in EUR)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Implementation modalities - cf. section 4.4</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1141, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 20"}]