Call Of Proposal- Resilient cities: Towards Inclusive & Sustainable Urban Development

Deadline: 22-Oct-20

Wehubit is seeking proposals for its grant program “Resilient cities: Towards Inclusive & Sustainable Urban Development” to increase the use and access to digital solutions offering better living conditions in the partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation.

The general objective of this Call for Proposals is to increase the use and access to digital solutions offering better living conditions in the partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation. The specific objective of the call for proposals is, through the digital tool, to strengthen the resilience of cities for sustainable and inclusive urban development.

Funding Information

• The total indicative sum available under this call for proposals is 1.500.000 EUR.
• Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • Minimum amount: 50.000,00 EUR
  • Maximum amount: 350.000,00 EUR

Cost Criteria

• Eligibility of Cost

Only ‘eligible costs’ may be covered by grants. The types of eligible and ineligible costs are indicated below. The
budget is both an estimate of costs and an overall cap on ‘eligible costs’.
The reimbursement of eligible costs may be based on one of the following formats, or any combination of
these:

• • The operational costs: necessary and indispensable costs for achieving the objectives and results of
    the action, including the cost for achieving verifiable deliverables;
  • The management costs: separate costs related to management, supervision, coordination,
    monitoring, control, evaluation and financial audit which specifically originate in the implementation
    of the action or the justification of the Grant;
  • The structure costs: costs related to the achievement of the social purpose of the beneficiary, which
    even though they are influenced by the implementation of the action cannot be separated or charged
    to the budget of this action.

• Ineligible costs

The following costs are not eligible:

• •  Accounting entries not leading to payments;
  •  Provisions for liabilities and charges, losses, debts or possible future debts;
  •  Debts and debit interests;
  • Bad loans/ doubtful debts;
  • Currency exchange losses;
  •  Loans to third parties;
  •  Guarantees and bonds;
  • Costs already financed by another grant;
  • Invoices made out by other organisations for goods and services already subsidised;
  • Subcontracting by means of service or consultancy contracts to personnel members, Board members or
    General Assembly members of the organisation subsidised;
  • Any sub-letting to oneself;
  • Purchases of land or buildings;
  • Compensation for damage falling under the civil liability of the organisation;
  • Employment termination compensation for the term of notice not performed;
  • Purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco and derived products thereof;
  • Grants to sub-beneficiaries

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
  • be a legal person,
  • be a public actor or be a private non-profit actor,
  • the organisation (or co-applicant) needs to be established or represented in the country where the action is implemented.
  • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary,
  • have already managed a grant (of public funds) amounting to 40% of the amount applied for,
  • dispose of financial statements certified by an independent body (audit or statutory commissioner),
  • Those statements must not be older than 2 years.
• Countries:
  • The actions must be implemented in one of the 14 countries of the Belgian bilateral development cooperation: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Palestine, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda.

Ineligible

Shall not be eligible, actions consisting solely or principally of:

• sponsoring the participation of individuals in workshops, seminars, conferences and conventions;
• financing individual scholarships for studies or training;
• financing the digital transformation of the (co-)applicant(s).

For more information, visit https://www.wehubit.be/en/financing-instruments#grants-anchor