EU Call for Proposals: Enhancing Civil Society Organisations’ Contributions to Governance and Development Processes in the Republic of Mauritius

Deadline: 31 May 2018

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals for its “Enhancing Civil Society Organisations’ Contributions to Governance and Development Processes in the Republic of Mauritius” to support Civil Society Organisations’ contributions to governance and accountability through inclusive policymaking – hence empowering citizens and populations through the voicing and structuring of their collective demands, to tackle injustice and inequality, to benefit from qualitative social services and to profit from wealth and job creation.

The global objective of this call for proposals shall be the enhancement of Civil Society Organisations’ participation in the Republic of Mauritius’ public policies and programmes as a pre-condition for a more equitable, open and democratic society.

Funding Information

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 200,000
• maximum amount: EUR 600,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: civil society actors or non-governmental organisation or their representative national platforms and
    • be established in the Republic of Mauritius or a Member State of the European Union and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
  • The lead applicant must declare that the lead applicant himself, the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies) are not in any of these situations.
  • The lead applicant may act individually or with co-applicant(s).
• Co-applicant(s)
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the Coordinator).
• Affiliated entity(ies)
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies)
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
  • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

How to Apply

In order to apply for the grants, applicants have to register themselves in PADOR, an on-line database via given website.

Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Republic of Mauritius.

For more information, please visit Europeaid and download the guidelines.