Call for Proposals: Conflict and Climate change Challenge for Peace Building

Deadline: 25-Jun-21

The European Commission is calling for proposals for the Conflict and climate change Challenge for Peace Building to support security initiatives and peace-building activities in partner countries.

The present Call for Proposals is implemented under the Thematic Strategy Paper 2014-2020 and accompanying Multiannual indicative Programme 2018-2020 of the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace.

The actions will be funded which aims to provide assistance for conflict prevention, peace-building and crisis preparedness, in this case focusing on climate change and its impact on crises and conflicts affected countries and regions. The action shall have a global mandate and its geographical coverage will focus on areas where climate change and/or climate change adaptation strategies threaten stability and peace.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is: support to communities and/or authorities to prevent/mitigate conflict resulting from climate change and climate change adaptation/mitigation measures.
• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • To strengthen governance structures at local, national and regional levels to address risks that are both conflict and climate related.
  • To contribute to the strengthening of local communities’ resilience to better respond to and cope with climate change and conflict.
  • To improve communication and collaboration across communities and disciplines, from climate science and natural resource management experts to peacebuilding and development actors.

Priority Areas

The priorities of this call for proposals is/are:

• Support communities and authorities to design policies which ensure that climate change adaptation and mitigation measures take potential for conflict into account and take active steps to avoid;
• Help ensure that peace-building and conflict prevention efforts take due note of climate change and its consequences for the specific conflict situations they are working on;
• Encourage closer collaboration between climate change and peacebuilding experts and activists at regional, national and local levels with an aim to foster innovation and support to scalable, conflict sensitive innovative solutions, which tackle climate change impact and build resilience;
• Encourage participative conflict sensitive design and implementation of climate change responses, focused in particular on enhancing the role of civil society and empowering local climate change and conflict affected communities.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 6 000 000.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 1,500,000.00
  • maximum amount: EUR 3,000,000.00
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
  • Minimum percentage: 80% of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 95% of the total eligible costs of the action.

Geographic Scope

• The geographical scope is global; however applicants are required to address the priorities of the call by targeting a specific conflict prone country or region.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant

• In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  • be a legal person
  • be a specific type of organisation such as: international organisations, NGOs, non-profit organisations and private companies
  • be established in  a Member State of the European Union, or any other eligible country or territory as indicated in regulation laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action
  • 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.

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.
• Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
• If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiaries) in the action (together with the coordinator).

Affiliated Entities

• The lead applicant and its co-applicants may act with affiliated entity(ies).
• Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to coapplicant(s)
• Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
• This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
  • Control, 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 may 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
      • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
  • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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