EU announces Call for Proposals for Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities

Deadline: 31-Aug-20

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals to strengthen civil society organizations’ contribution to governance and development processes.

Objectives

The specific objectives for this call for proposals are:
- Specific objective 1:- Increase the participation of CSOs in tackling climate change and mitigating its adverse effects

Output 1: Strengthened CSOs’ capacities and engagement on climate change mitigation and adaptation

Specific objective 2:- Women’s participation in decision-making increased

Output 2: Strengthened women’s CSOs capacities and engagement for participation in decision making

Specific Objective 3: The voice of youth in society is increased, including that of young people with fewer opportunities and having regards to the eleven Youth Goals proposed by young people in the EU Youth Dialogue process

Output 3: Strengthened CSOs’ capacities and engagement on youth inclusion.

Funding Information

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

minimum amount: EUR 300.000
maximum amount: EUR 500.000

Duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 48 months.

Location

Actions must take place in the following country: Eritrea.

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: non-governmental organisation, and
  - be established in and,
    - Member States, beneficiaries established in Annex I to the Pre-Accession Instrument (IPA II) and contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, in the State of Eritrea;
    - developing countries that are in the list of Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipients, which are not members of the G20 group, and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs);
    - member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE) in case of contracts implemented in Least Developed Countries or Highly Indebted Countries, as included in the list of ODA recipients.
- 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.
Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator)

Affiliated entities

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 coapplicant(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.
- 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.