Call for Proposals: Recovery, Stability and Socio-economic Development (Libya)

Deadline: 16-Nov-22

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is calling for proposals for Recovery, Stability and Socio-economic Development in Libya.

Objectives

• The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to contribute to creating/enhancing livelihoods opportunities in the agro-food sector for Libyan and Non-Libyan communities in Southern Libya.
• The specific objective is to identify and support income generating activities in the agro-food sector benefiting local communities, migrants, refugees, IDPs and returnees, in Southern Libya
• The Programme’s overall objective is to contribute to improving the living conditions and resilience of local communities, migrants, IDPs and returnees, with a focus on the most vulnerable within targeted municipalities of Southern Libya. This will be achieved by implementing three interlinked outcomes that aim to:
  • Contribute to improving basic service delivery (notably education, WASH, sustainable energy, as well as facilities for social cohesion at community level);
  • Contribute to creating/enhancing livelihoods opportunities for local communities, including for migrants;
  • Contribute to prevention/mitigation of conflicts, encourage reconciliation and strengthen social cohesion.

Priorities

• Rehabilitate/maintain collective infrastructure
• Improve access to crop and animal extension services, as well as good quality agricultural and livestock inputs
• Enhance technical skills of farmers and their employees
• Engage young people
• Provide support to agricultural associations/cooperatives/CSOs or agribusiness service centers
• Provide training and capacity-building for local authorities, community-based associations and organizations, farmers and other value chain and value-added actors

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,400,000.
• Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must not exceed the below maximum amount:
  • minimum amount: EUR 1,200,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 1,400,000

Geographic Scope 

The selection of the locations targeted by the RSSD Phase 2 Programme was coordinated with the Libyan Ministry of Local Governance (MoLG) and the European Union based on the following criteria:

• municipalities largely excluded from donor funding;
• municipalities with newly elected municipal councils;
• locations presenting a higher economic development potential;
• security and accessibility;
• presence of migrant and IDP communities.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicant(s)
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person
    • be non-profit-making
    • be a non-governmental organisation
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or in countries eligible under EDFENI- and DCI- funded programmes
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
    • be registered and/or authorized to implement activities in Libya or in the process of being registered/authorized.
• 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 beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
• 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.

For more information, visit https://tunisi.aics.gov.it/home/opportunita/bandi/