CFPs: Building Leadership Capacity and Linkages between Youth in the Swahili Coast

Deadline: 17-May-22

The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals for Building Leadership Capacity and Linkages between Youth in the Swahili Coast (Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique).

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is: to raise awareness, mobilise and build leadership capacity of young men and women living in the coastal bordering areas of Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique as peacebuilders.
• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • to promote positive unity, community cohabitation and inclusion between young men and women to counter identity based threats
  • to promote positive leadership roles, voices and narratives of young men and women (in particular young women) motivating youth  to act as agents for change
  • to promote shared learning and best practices of young men and women-led networks and civil society organisations across the Swahili coast regarding the prevention of tensions and violence

Priorities

The priorities for this call for proposals are:

• Stimulate dialogue and exchange of experiences among young men and women led networks and civil society organisations engagement in the Swahili coast in a number of areas of common interests, and related to violence prevention;
• Help the communities to identify and use positive, peace centred cultural traits of the Swahili culture, highlighting how conflict and violence are contrary and damaging to it. Value, instead, practices of dialogue and understanding typical of the Swahili culture;
• Promote cohesion and  strengthen mutual trust and ties among young men and women across the targeted areas in the Swahili coast;
• Support and/or facilitate creation / strengthening of young men and women led initiatives for peace across the coastal region;
• Promote inspiring narratives of youth men and women as agents for change through different new and innovative channels.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 4 000 000.
• 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 2 000 000
• 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: 80 % 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 civil society organisation constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the applicant’s country of registration
    • be established in  a Member State of the European Union or any other eligible country laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action. However, where the lead applicant is not established in Kenya, Tanzania or Mozambique it must act with minimum one co-applicant established in Kenya, Tanzania or Mozambique.
    • This obligation does not apply to international organisations
    • 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-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, 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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