Call for Proposals: Human Rights and Democracy (Trinidad and Tobago)

Deadline: 20/06/24
The European Commission is pleased to announce a call for proposals to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development; provide access to justice for all; and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels in Trinidad and Tobago.

Built upon the key features of the previous European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the thematic programme is intended to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law worldwide.

Objectives

• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • Protecting and empowering individuals (to contribute to the full enjoyment by every one of all human rights, be they civil, political, economic, social or cultural rights).
  • Safeguarding fundamental freedoms, including harnessing the opportunities and addressing the challenges of new technologies (to create and maintain an environment conducive to the full exercise of all fundamental freedoms, online and offline).
  • Delivering by working together (to develop a compelling narrative on human rights and democracy with a multiplying effect as well to ensure civil society’s contribution to human rights dialogues the EU conducts with partner countries.

Priority Areas

• The priority areas of this call for proposals are:
  • LGBTI+, Rights of the Child, Prisoner Rights and Migrant and Refugee Rights.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 580, 000
• Size of grants
  • Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
    • minimum amount: EUR 150,000
    • maximum amount: EUR 250,000
  • 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: 75 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
    • Maximum percentage: 95% of the total eligible costs of the action
  • The balance (i.e. the difference between the total cost of the action and the amount requested from the contracting authority) must be financed from sources other than the general budget of the Union

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • 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 or international (intergovernmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation, and
    • be active in human rights and democratic governance in Trinidad and Tobago and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or Trinidad and Tobago.
    • This obligation does not apply to international organisations 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
• 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.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) 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, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, 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.
  • The structural link shall as a general rule be neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation. This means that the link would exist independently of the award of the grant; it should exist before the call for proposals and remain valid after the end of the action.
  • By way of exception, an entity may be considered as affiliated to an applicant even if it has a structural link specifically established for the sole purpose of the implementation of the action in the case of so-called ‘sole applicants’ or ‘sole beneficiaries’. A sole applicant or a sole beneficiary is a legal entity formed by several entities (a group of entities) which together comply with the criteria for being awarded the grant. For example, an association is formed by its members.

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