CFPs for NGO’s in Ghana: Protection and Rehabilitation of Trafficked Persons, Prevention of Human Trafficking

Deadline: 07-Oct-20

The Expertise France has announced a call for proposals for the protection and rehabilitation of victims of trafficking and for actions to prevent trafficking in human beings carried out by civil society organizations in Ghana.

The protection of victims of trafficking is at the heart of all policies and measures to fight this phenomenon. Conventionally, the main elements of a proactive policy in terms of victim protection are considered to be the following: the development of tools for the identification, orientation, and referral of victims (national or foreign), the dissemination of norms and standards of care, the establishment of temporary reception structures, the production of mappings of the actors, the strengthening of local relays, the establishment of assistance and rehabilitation funds and the production of consolidated statistics.

In close collaboration with Ghaneans authorities concerned, first and foremost the Human Trafficking Secretariat (HTS), established in 2005 by the Human Trafficking Act, which works to facilitate the prevention and fighting of trafficking cases in Ghana as well as sensitizing the population on human trafficking and creating a peaceful environment to accelerate national development under the leadership of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social protection. The project intends to contribute to the institutionalization and standardization of practices for the care of victims identified and potential victims by:

• Strengthening financial mechanisms for victims assistance,
• Supporting the operationalization of systems for the identification, referral, and care of victims (integrated referral systems, with specific attention to gender)
• Developing shelter options adapted to the needs of each category of victims
• Improving and diversifying the range of assistance services to meet the needs of victims.

Objectives

The global objective of this call for proposals is to support civil society organizations in Ghana in the development of structuring and innovative projects for the protection and rehabilitation of persons (adults and children) who are victims of trafficking and, in a subsidiary manner, the prevention of trafficking in human beings.

The aim is also to build the capacity of Ghanean civil society so that it can participate actively in the dialogue with the public authorities on the issue of human trafficking.

The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals are as follows:

• To improve the protection of trafficked persons through the strengthening of structures offering assistance services, psychosocial support, and/or reintegration activities aiming to a full and complete reintegration of such persons.
• To strengthen the prevention of trafficking in human beings on a sustainable basis through innovative actions with concrete and lasting impact.
• The projects presented should seek to achieve at least one or both of the two specific objectives.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 430 000.

Size of grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• Minimum amount: EUR < 40 000>
• Maximum amount: EUR <150 000>

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant(s)

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:

• be a legal entity and
• be a non-profit and belong to one of this category: non-governmental organization (national or international), social enterprise (such as a cooperative), foundation, international organization (intergovernmental);
• if international organizations are eligible to remember to publish PRAG Annex containing derogations to include in the special conditions, if the coordinator is an international organization whose pillars have not been positively assessed or if one of the co-beneficiaries is an international organization (regardless of whether its pillars have been positively assessed or not)
• be established in a member state of the European Union or in Ghana, and legally registered for at least two years at the time of submission of the application, and
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary and
• Demonstrate its capacity to manage activities relating to the themes concerned and to the size of the project requiring a grant by providing:
  • a copy of the organization’s registration document and a note describing its activities
  • a copy of the organization’s most recent annual report or a presentation of the activities implemented by the organization over the last two years
  • the organization’s most recent financial statements: certified closed accounts 2019, 2018 and 2017 and provisional budget 2020
• Any previous experience and proven expertise in the field of protection of VoTs should be presented in the application form.
• Foreign CSOs, i.e. those established outside Ghana, are allowed to participate in the call for proposals in the framework of a consortium with one or more Ghanean NGOs. Foreign applicants will have to demonstrate that their experience brings added value to the project, that their action (i) responds to a demand and needs identified at the local level, and (ii) includes active support to local partners (capacity building, transfer of skills). Applicants must ensure that the local structure with which they are in partnership complies with the same eligibility rules of this call.

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 form.

Affiliated entity(ies)

• The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with an 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 an 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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