Deadline: 10-Dec-21
European Commission is inviting proposals for Mainstreaming People-Centred Reform in the Justice Sector in Kyrgyzstan.
Objectives
- The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve Justice and Rule of Law in Kyrgyzstan.
- The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is/are:
- To build the capacity of Civil Society to monitor the justice system;
- To mainstream Right-based approach and Gender Equality and to monitor that international Human Rights, Gender Equality and the principle of non-discrimination are embedded and enforced in the legislation;
- To promote non-discrimination, transparency, accountability and efficiency and to contribute to protect the privacy rights, including of vulnerable groups.
Priorities
The priority (ies) of this call for proposals is/are:
- Networking of Civil Society Organisations, enhancing the capability of the Civil Society organisations to carry out Result-Based Monitoring of justice sector reform at country level, including policies, development and enforcement of legislation, and paying attention to gender equality.
- Digitalisation of justice sector institutions, enabling rights-holders to oversee the legal and judicial reform and duty bearers to be accountable for it.
Pillars
The programme has three Pillars:
- Introduction of a People-Centred and Results-Oriented Gender-Responsive and Rights-Based Monitoring System in the Justice Sector;
- Improved Probation management in line with human rights standards;
- Strengthened Gender-Responsive and Human Rights Based Approach to the Administration of Justice in the Digital Era.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3 000 000.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 800 000
- maximum amount: EUR 1 500 000
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
- Minimum percentage: 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.
- Maximum percentage: 95 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
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 non-governmental civil society organisation (international intergovernmental organisations are ineligible)
- be established in the Kyrgyz Republic or a Member State of the European Union or a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) 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
- have been registered for at least two years at the submission deadline for concept notes.
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- Co-applicant(s)
- In case of involving co-applicants in the action, three co-applicants is the maximum recommended number.
- 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 in Annex A.2 Section 5.
- 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 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).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- 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.
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
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