Grants for CSOs Contribution to Citizen Security in Jamaican Communities

Deadline: 1-Feb-22

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals to enhance Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) participation and contribution to build a safe, secure and just society in Jamaica.

Objective

The specific objective of this call for proposals is to support Civil Society Organizations’ initiatives geared toward supporting the prevention / reduction of violent conflicts and criminal activities by empowering the most troubled Jamaican communities and supporting their residents (in particular adolescents and youth) to become more active and productive members of the society and increase their engagement in the community’s development.

Priorities

In doing so, proposals must address one or more of the following priorities:

• Afterschool, academic and behavioral support interventions specifically for medium to high-risk students (eg demonstrating high-risk behaviors including low attendance, sub-par literacy skills, excessive fighting, violence and drug abuse and those that have suffered neglect or abuse). 
• Supporting reintegration back into school for adolescents and youths coming from juvenile correctional facilities and / or have dropped out of school and are neither working nor in a training.
• Supporting medium to high-risk youths to apply and successfully complete skills, vocational and employment training and / or develop viable self-employment / own-account enterprises. This should include targeting specific youths for support (mainly 15-30 years old) and providing wrap-around services to help reduce training and / or program attrition.
• Disrupting cycles of violent community conflicts using trusted messengers and community-based interventions to intervene and break cycles of retaliation and violence connected to community violence, gang violence and organized crime.
• Initiatives involving children and youths that are promoting positive understandings and practices of what it means to be a man, different forms of masculinities, roles and values for young men, providing them with life and leadership skills and involving them in community activities. 

Funding information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR1,500,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.

Size of grants

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

• minimum amount: EUR250,000
• maximum amount: EUR400,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant (s)
  • 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 organization such as: civil society organization, including non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, private-sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organizations and networks thereof at local, national, regional and international level, and
    • be established in Jamaica or in a Member State of the European Union,
    • 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 and
    • apply together with at least one co-applicant,
    • Non-Jamaican organizations must act with at least one local co-applicant.
• Co-applicant (s)
  • There must be at least one co-applicant participating in the action. 
  • 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-applica nts must sign the mandate form.
• 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 co-applicant (s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (ie 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 m ay 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;
          • Entitie s and he the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
      • Membership, ie the applicant is legally defined as a eg network, federation, a ssociation in w hich the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (eg netw ork, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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