EU Call for Proposals: Information, Awareness and Training on Local Development and Local Governance

Deadline: 30 May 2019

The European Union (EU) is currently seeking proposals for its grant program entitled “information, awareness and training on local development and local governance, support for capacity building for analysis and proposals of CSOs / CBOs around specific issues of the local development, technical, organizational and financial support to women’s and youth organizations for socio-economic self-promotion”.

Objectives

The overall objective of PASOC, which this call for proposals is to contribute to, is to contribute to the rooting of democracy and the culture of dialogue and peace in Chad through the increasing and effective participation of CSOs, and through them, the citizen in the process of political, economic and social life of the country.
Specifically, to make the Chadian civil society a responsible, credible, informed and competent partner of the country’s economic, political and social life, in order to increase, over time, citizen participation in the process of taking and monitoring decisions at local and national level.
The overall aim of this call for proposals is to help build the capacity of local actors, particularly women and young people, to improve their participation in local governance.
This call for proposals has the specific objective (s):
- Train and support CSOs and CBOs;
- Fund cascading actions through the direct awarding of small grants for at least 108 micro-projects to be offered by the CSOs and CBOs formed.

Grant Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is 1 029 031 EUR or 675,000,000 FCFA.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead Applicant
- To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  - be a legal person and
  - have no profit and
  - belong to one of the following categories of organization: non-governmental organization, public sector operator, local authority, international (intergovernmental) organization as defined of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation of the European Union and
  - be established in Chad
  - be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant (s) and the entity or affiliated entities, and not act as an intermediary and
  - have at least two years of experience in supporting CSOs and CBOs.
- Cannot participate in calls for proposals or receive grants, potential applicants in any of the situations
Co-Applicant (s)
- The co-applicants participate in the preparation and implementation of the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those applying to the lead applicant itself.
Affiliated entity (ies)
- The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
- Only the following entities may be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and / or the co-applicant (s):
  - Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  - This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
    - control, within the meaning of Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      - Entities affiliated with an applicant may therefore be:
        
        entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-tier subsidiaries) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-tier subsidiaries), and this is valid for other levels of control;
        
        entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Similarly, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        
        controlled entities, directly or indirectly, at the same level as the applicant (sister companies).
    - membership, that is, the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, federation or association) than the proposed affiliated entity.