Deadline: 13-Jun-25
The European Commission is pleased to invite applications to provide support to Education and Health Sectors in Eritrea.
Objectives
- The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law worldwide.
- Specific objective of this call for proposals is to protect and empower the individuals, in particular the most vulnerable categories (women and girls, children and youth as well as persons with disabilities).
Priority Areas
- The priority of this call for proposals is to protect and empower targeted individuals in the following areas:
- Education with special focus on people with disabilities
- Health: to respond to the basic necessities of health care
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 580,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 200,000
- maximum amount: EUR 580,000
Eligible Activities
- Capacity building, trainings and support measures related to the objectives
- Information and advocacy measures related to the objectives
- Awareness-raising activities
- Support actions aimed at guaranteeing basic social rights of vulnerable categories (women and girls, children and youth and persons with disabilities): equal access to health care and education
- Providing psychosocial, medical, legal assistance or other type of support to above-mentioned vulnerable categories of individuals.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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 , public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 159(1) of the EU Financial Regulation and
- be effectively established in a Member State of the European Union or in the State of Eritrea. Due to the legal status of international organisations, the obligation of effective establishment in the referred countries does not apply to international organisations, where the latter are eligible, 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, and
- have at least 5 years experience working in Eritrea in one of the priority sectors and be acknowledged by the relevant sector Ministry.
- The lead applicant may act individually or with co-applicant(s).
- 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.
- If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
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