Call for Proposals: Strengthening Inclusive Nutrition Approaches in Yemen

Deadline: 01-Sep-21

The European Commission is calling for proposals to strengthen Inclusive Nutrition Approaches in Yemen through a nexus approach to identify and reduce inequalities in the availability, access to, and utilization of nutritious food, and of nutrition and food security services and interventions.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is “Strengthening inclusive nutrition approaches in Yemen”
• The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is to implement at local level, sustainable, resilient and scalable nutrition sensitive interventions, aligned with the Scaling Up nutrition – SUN movement and the Yemen Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan 2020-2023.

Priorities

• The priorities of this call for proposals are the people most affected by, and most vulnerable to, food insecurity and malnutrition. In particular the communities most affected by poverty, climate shocks  and population groups living in the most vulnerable situations, with a special emphasis on children under five years of age with a in particular on the first 1000 days of life, pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, as well as smallholder farmers, female farmers and informal workers.

Thematic Programme on Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC)

The Multiannual Indicative Programme (MIP) for the Thematic Programme “Global Public Goods and Challenges” for the period 2018-2020 sets  out three  priorities  for  food  and  nutrition  security  and  sustainable  agriculture:

• Strengthening   and   promoting   governance   and   capacity   of   actors   at   the   global, continental,  regional  and  national  levels,  for  all  relevant  stakeholders,
• Exchanging knowledge and fostering innovation,
• Supporting the poor and food and nutrition insecure to effectively respond to crises and strengthen resilience.

In  the  case  of  increasing resilience, pro resilience actions will be supported aiming at strengthening  links  between  humanitarian,  development  and  peace  actors,  as  recommended  by  UN Security Council Resolution 2417, through the “Global Network against Food Crises” to  tackle  acute  hunger  by  coordinated,  evidence based interventions on  prevention, rehabilitation and resilience.   

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 5,000,000.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 4,500,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 5,000,000
• 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: 60 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 90% 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 a non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, international (inter-governmental) organisation
  • be established in
    • Yemen
    • a Member State of the European Union  (this obligation does not apply to international organisations)
    • a Member State, beneficiaries and contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
  • 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.
• 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.

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