Call for Proposals: Legal aid service provision - Criminal justice in Ethiopia

Deadline: 01-Sep-21

European Commission is calling for proposals for Legal aid service provision – Criminal justice in Ethiopia to increase respect for the rule of law, respect for human rights, and access to justice for all.

Objectives

The action has three interlinked and mutually supportive specific objectives (SO) closely aligned with the EU’s and Ethiopia’s policies and the ongoing criminal justice reform process:
- Enhanced horizontal and vertical coordination, collaboration and cooperation between key criminal justice institutions.
- Increased effectiveness, efficiency, fairness and accountability of the criminal justice system.
- Improved access to justice for all, in particular the poor, women and other groups living in vulnerable situations thanks to increasing access to legal aid and assistance.
The objective of this call for proposals is to identify an experienced and qualified organisation or institution that would establish and manage a basket fund. Sub-granting is the main purpose of this unique grant.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3,000,000 where at least EUR 2,500,000 will be reserved for sub-grants (basket fund).
Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
Minimum amount:
- EUR 2,700,000
- Where at least EUR 2,500,000 are reserved for sub-grants to legal aid service providers
Maximum amount:
- EUR 3,000,000
- Where at least EUR 2,500,000 are reserved for sub-grants to legal aid service providers

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person;
- be non-profit-making;
- be a specific type of organisation, such as: a non-governmental organisation, a public sector operator, private-sector agencies, institutions and organisations, a EU Member State (Development) Agency, or (v) international organisations;
- be established in any country considered eligible for less developed countries under the revised annex IV to the Cotonou Agreement;
- 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 itself.
Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) 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.