Call for Proposals: Mainstreaming People-Centred Reform in the Justice Sector (Kyrgyzstan)

Deadline: 10-Dec-21

European Commission is inviting proposals for Mainstreaming People-Centred Reform in the Justice Sector in Kyrgyzstan.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve Justice and Rule of Law in Kyrgyzstan.
• The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is/are:
  • To build the capacity of Civil Society to monitor the justice system;
  • To mainstream Right-based approach and Gender Equality and to monitor that international Human Rights, Gender Equality and the principle of non-discrimination are embedded and enforced in the legislation;
  • To promote non-discrimination, transparency, accountability and efficiency and to contribute to protect the privacy rights, including of vulnerable groups.

Priorities

The priority (ies) of this call for proposals is/are:

• Networking of Civil Society Organisations, enhancing the capability of the Civil Society organisations to carry out Result-Based Monitoring of justice sector reform at country level, including policies, development and enforcement of legislation, and paying attention to gender equality.
• Digitalisation of justice sector institutions, enabling rights-holders to oversee the legal and judicial reform and duty bearers to be accountable for it.

Pillars

The programme has three Pillars:

• Introduction of a People-Centred and Results-Oriented Gender-Responsive and Rights-Based Monitoring System in the Justice Sector;
• Improved Probation management in line with human rights standards;
• Strengthened Gender-Responsive and Human Rights Based Approach to the Administration of Justice in the Digital Era.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3 000 000.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 800 000
  • maximum amount: EUR 1 500 000
• 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: 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 95 % of the total eligible costs of the action.

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 non-governmental civil society organisation (international intergovernmental organisations are ineligible)
    • be established in the Kyrgyz Republic or a Member State of the European Union or a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) 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
    • have been registered for at least two years at the submission deadline for concept notes.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • In case of involving co-applicants in the action, three co-applicants is the maximum recommended number.
  • 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 in Annex A.2 Section 5.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
• Affiliated entity(ies)
  • 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 co-applicant(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.

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