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Call for Proposals: Legal Aid and Social Protection Project (Tunisia)

Deadline: 1-Jan-25

The United Nations Development Programme has launched its call for proposals for civil society organizations as part of the “Legal Aid and Social Protection” project.

The objective of this call for applications is to support civil society initiatives to strengthen access to justice for specific groups, through public legal aid mechanisms. Projects should not provide substitute services to users, but facilitate their access to the services offered by public institutions.

The project recognizes the strong relationship between social protection, human rights and justice: social protection can contribute to reducing social inequalities, promoting equity and the realization of rights. Indeed, to ensure better access to social protection, it is essential to give populations, particularly the most vulnerable, the means to better know their rights guaranteed by law, and to have the capacity and means to assert them and to seek legal remedies when these rights are violated. At the same time, it is also necessary for the judicial systems, civil and administrative, to better meet the needs of populations, particularly the most vulnerable, and to be more accessible and promote the trust of populations in institutions.

This is how the project aims to contribute to improving access to social protection and justice, through legal aid before the judicial and administrative courts, for the most vulnerable groups, in particular households and individuals in precarious situations, children, women victims of violence, as well as victims of human trafficking and victims of terrorism. Thus, the project aims to achieve the following results:

  • Effect 1: The integrated system of social protection provision, including legal aid, is improved;
  • Effect 2: Increased demand for legal aid services, through the assertion of the legal rights of the most vulnerable people as well as the provision of better quality legal aid services, generates increased access to legal and social protection;
  • Effect 3: The State’s capacities to implement the adopted solutions and to support sustainability are strengthened.
Funding Information
  • The financial support provided by UNDP within the framework of this collaboration with civil society organizations is capped at 70,000 TND per project.
  • The expected duration of a project should not exceed 6 months.
Costs Covered
  • The amount allocated will depend on:
    • Relevance of the action with the strategic vision of the main partners of the project (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Affairs, ONAT, Administrative Court) and the framework of the results of the joint UNDP/WB project “Legal aid and social protection”, in particular its effect 2 relating to legal aid.
    • Effectiveness and feasibility of the action.
    • Sustainability of action.
    • Efficiency (cost-benefit ratio).
    • Technical, operational and logistical capacity of the applicant.
  • UNDP support can cover up to 100% of the total cost of the action (i.e. the applicant is not required to provide financial participation to the submitted project).
  • Applicants who provide their own financial contribution and/or other donors to carry out the proposed action must submit a budget composed of a column with total costs and columns by donor in order to clearly understand who is funding which activity and/or in what percentage.
  • In all cases, only projects for which all costs are covered will be considered.
Eligible Costs
  • Eligible direct costs must meet the following criteria:
    • Have been actually incurred during the implementation period, i.e. between the start date (determined by the signing of the financing contract) and the end date of the project;
    • Be indicated in the overall estimated budget of the project;
    • Be necessary for the implementation of the UNDP-funded project;
    • Be identifiable and controllable: in particular, they must be recorded in the beneficiary’s accounts and determined in accordance with the country’s accounting standards;
    • Be reasonable, justified and meet the requirements of sound financial management, particularly in terms of economy and efficiency;
    • Costs related to the payroll required to manage the project are eligible. However, these must not exceed 20% of the total costs;
    • Telecommunications costs are eligible. However, these must not exceed 1% of the total direct costs.
Ineligible Costs
  • The following expenses are not eligible:
    • Debts and provisions for losses or debts;
    • Debit interest;
    • Costs already funded under another grant;
    • Purchases of land or buildings, unless such purchases are essential for the direct implementation of the action, in which case their ownership must be transferred to the final beneficiaries and/or local partners at the latest at the end of the action;
    • Expenses incurred prior to the start date of implementation or signing of the agreement;
    • Credits to third-party organizations;
    • VAT
Eligibility Criteria
  • The applicant must meet the following conditions to be eligible for a grant:
    • Be a civil society organization whose head office is based in Tunisia;
    • Be a civil society organization with experience in implementing activities in the governorate in which the project will be implemented;
    • Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action and not be limited to an intermediary role;
    • Be independent of political parties/movements;
    • Be an organization constituted in accordance with the provisions of Decree-Law;
    • Registration in the national business register in accordance with the provisions of law.
Ineligibility Criteria
  • Applicants and partners who are not eligible to participate in this process or receive a grant:
    • Who are in a state of or are the subject of bankruptcy proceedings, liquidation, judicial settlement, control by the Central Bank or preventive composition, cessation of activity, or who find themselves in a similar situation resulting from a procedure of the same nature existing in national laws and regulations;
    • Who, in the context of a grant awarded by the UNDP or another UN organization, have been declared in serious default of execution due to non-compliance with their contractual obligations.
  • Applicants who, at the time of the call for proposals and during its evaluation, are excluded from participation in this process or cannot benefit from a grant:
    • Are in a situation of conflict of interest;
    • Made false statements in their application for the call for proposals or failed to provide the required information to UNDP.

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