Deadline: 22-Jan-21
The Italian Cooperation Agency at Sviluppo (hereinafter “Sede AICS”) has launched the Resilience and Social Stability: Creation of Opportunities for Temporary Employment to Support Lebanian Municipalities to Manage Economic and Social Consequences of Crisis.
Lebanon is currently characterized by multiple crises, the joint action of which is causing a progressive increase in the vulnerability of the local and refugee population. The main factors of crises include:
- the presence of a large number of refugees from Syria;
- a severe financial crisis which resulted in a high risk of bank sector insolvency, a exchange rate collapse, a sovereign debt default, high inflation and severe economic contraction;
- the health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic the related containment measures; and
- the consequences of the explosions that occurred at the port of Beirut on 4 August 2020.
These crises add to the long-term structural vulnerabilities, which they include the lack of public infrastructure and social welfare services, inefficiencies created by the confessional and consociative system on which the exercise of political power is based, political and social instability, consistent and persistent migration of highly human resources educated.
Funding Information
- The total contribution of the AICS for all interventions carried out by non-profit entities under AID 11712 it is equal to € 415,000.00.
- The total contribution of the AICS for all interventions carried out by non-profit entities under AID 10363 it is equal to € 900,000.00.
- Maximum duration of the project activities: 8 (eight) months
Location of Intervention
- The project proposals presented in the context of AID 11712 must concern exclusively the Governorate of North Lebanon.
- The project proposals presented under AID 10363 must concern exclusively the Governorates of Beirut and Mount Lebanon. The municipalities of Beirut, Bourj Hammoud and Jdaidet-El Matn-Baouchriyeh.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registration in the list pursuant to art. 26, paragraph 3, of Law 125/2014, or, for the subjects non-profit organizations with no operational headquarters in Italy (local and / or international non-profit entities), partnership agreement with one of the parties registered. The deal can be of various kinds (affiliation, association, partnership) but it must still be, under penalty exclusion, of a general nature, pre-existing to this Call for Proposals (and not limited therefore to a specific action or established only for the purposes of participation in this Call ) and must remain valid even after the conclusion of the activities relating to the Call;
- Specific and proven experience in humanitarian aid interventions;
- For non-profit entities without an operational headquarters in Italy (local non-profit entities and / or international), be established and in compliance with the legislation in force in the country of membership and in compliance with the provisions for non-profit entities from same legislation;
- They are not debtors to the MAECI DGCS and / or AICS or other donors, for certain, liquid debts and due, including debt situations resulting from revocation measures grants for projects promoted and / or entrusted;
- They have not engaged in behavior characterized by gross negligence or bad faith in realization of projects DGCS / MAECI, AICS, of other donors or in the exercise of theirs activities.
For more information, visit https://beirut.aics.gov.it/home-ita/opportunita/bandi/