EU announces CFPs to promote Dialogue and Exchanges between Youth Groups and Youth Initiatives in the Great Lakes Region

Deadline: 15 July 2020

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organizations to promote dialogue and exchanges between youth groups and youth initiatives in the Great Lakes region.

Objectives

The global objective of this call for proposals is to support youth contribution to building lasting peace and stability in the Great Lakes region through consolidation of the regional dimension of the exchanges and dialogue between communities.
The specific objective of this call for proposals is to promote exchanges and dialogue between youth actions / initiatives that contribute to the global objective.

Priorities

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

Strengthening youth actions/initiatives in the Great Lakes region and enhancing the exchange of information and experience between them across the region.
Promoting practical solutions to mitigate their isolation and fragmentation and creating a more robust cross-border and / or regional dynamic.
Facilitating the engagement of youth with other (public, private, civil or community led) actors and the linkages between youth initiatives and broader processes in favour of long lasting peace and stability in the region.

The proposals shall support youth actions/initiatives that focus on mediation, political dialogue and peacebuilding in a broad sense, and shall therefore cover fields that are considered as major potential factors of conflict – such as environment and natural resources; climate change; economy/private sector/employment; political representation; governance; media/social media; fight against corruption; transitional justice and fight against impunity; land and inheritance; culture and education; etc. – as long as the incidence of the projects on the overall objective of the Call is demonstrated.

Size of Grants

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

Minimum amount: EUR 500 000
Maximum amount: EUR 1 500 000

Duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 36 months.

Location

Actions must take place in three or more of the following countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant: In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be established in one of the target countries, a Member State of the European Union or other eligible country as indicated in regulation n°236/2014 laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action
- be a civil society actor constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the applicant’s country of registration
- 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
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 himself.
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 an applicant may hence be:
        
        Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the 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.