Call for Proposals: Allocation of Grants to Civil Society under COPOLAD III Programme (Bahamas)

Deadline: 20-May-24

The International Italo-Latin American Organisation (IILA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to allocate grants to civil society organisations for the implementation of community projects in pilot sites, within the territory of Bahamas, in the context of the territorialisation of drug and vulnerability-related policies at community level within the framework of the COPOLAD III Programme.

Considering the need to work in coordination with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), COPOLAD III Programme has funds available to promote and finance innovative initiatives in the development of public policies on the issue of drugs. Whereas COPOLAD Programme foresees, in the development of its activities, the allocation of grants to civil society from the budget executed by IILA.

Objectives 

• The general purpose of the Government of The Bahamas is to develop two pilot experiences that serve as matrices for the strengthening of organized civil society in the implementation of local strategies especially aimed at highly vulnerable communities linked with immigration processes, poverty, illicit activities and micro criminality related to drugs, community violence, deterioration of environmental conditions, loss of installed capacity in the management of community resources and in confronting vulnerabilities.
  • Objective 1: To improve communication, coordination, and collaboration between community members, living in conditions of severe vulnerability (exposure to poverty, poor access to healthcare, educational and protection services, and illicit activities related to micro-trafficking), and service providers, institutional networks and decision makers at the policy level.
  • Objective 2: Strengthen relationship between community members, law enforcement and opinion leaders around the topic of drug prevention, micro-trafficking and safety concerns
  • Objective 3: To enhance community actors feeling of pride, ownership, sense of community and spirit of togetherness through their participation in the improvement of environmental conditions
  • Objective 4: To increase the visibility and resource potential of invisible populations (immigrants, persons living in conditions of homelessness etc.)
  • Objective 5: To Promote healthy lifestyles and prevent the transition of young people and adults towards the illicit economy.
  • Objective 6: To Strengthen resources and actors that have a social integration function
  • Objective 7: To support the economic reconversion of micro trafficking networks using confiscated funds and popular or circular economy processes

Funding Information

• Value of the application: Minimum €25.000,00 – Maximum €45.000,00 (All expenses included)
• Duration of the action: Max. 6 months (with possible extension).

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • The lead applicant, who submits the application, in order to be eligible for a grant, must:
    • Be a legal entity;
    • Be non-profit making;
    • Be formally established in Bahamas;
    • Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action and not merely function as an intermediary;
    • Demonstrate economic-financial and technical project implementation capacity:
      • Must prove that its average annual income volume, in the last 3 years (2020 – 2022) is higher than the maximum budget of the present call;
      • It must prove to have executed (implemented), in the last 5 years (2018 – 2022), at least 2 projects supporting activities related to this request for proposal.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Co-applicants, affiliated or associated organisations are not eligible for this call for proposals.
• Organisations whose authorised representative has received a final judgement or a final administrative decision for one of the following reasons are not eligible for this call:
  • bankruptcy, insolvency, or liquidation proceedings;
  • failure to comply with obligations relating to the payment of taxes or social security contributions;
  • serious professional misconduct;
  • fraud;
  • corruption;
  • conduct connected with a criminal organisation;
  • money laundering or terrorist financing;
  • terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activities;
  • child labour and trafficking in human beings;
  • in the case of the creation and/or use of Shell companies;
  • irregularities, i.e. cases of non-compliance with EU rules, standards and requirements concerning the spending of EU funds, with a potentially negative impact on the EU’s financial interests.

For more information, visit IILA.