CFPs: Improving access to Protection and Sustainable Integration of Migrants in Morocco

Deadline: 23-Apr-24

The European Commission (EC) has launched a call for proposals to strengthen the protection and resilience of people most exposed migrants and strengthen socio-economic cohesion in communities.

Program Objectives

• The specific objectives (OS) of this call for proposals are:
  • Migrants most at risk benefit from protection and access to basic services, as well as economic opportunities.
  • The different actors and local authorities jointly facilitate socio-integration migrants’ economic and social cohesion with host communities

Priorities

• The priorities of this call for proposals are:
  • Lot 1:
    • Strengthening migrants’ access to emergency and protection services;
    • Capacity building and financing of international and Moroccan civil society organizations in order to increase the impact of their actions to improve the quality of life of migrants;
    • Capacity building and networking of civil society organizations in order to ensure complementarity and cohesion, including avoiding redundancy, of their actions with pre-existing programs.
  • Lot 2:
    • Strengthening joint actions by Moroccans around the world and local actors with a decentralized cooperation;
    • Capacity building and financing of international and Moroccan civil society organizations in order to encourage links between Moroccans around the world and territorial actors in the development of economic activities;
  • All lots:
    • Systematic consideration of the rights-based approach, gender equality and environmental protection must be ensured and clearly described in the proposal.
    • Taking into account the rights of children and young people, people with disabilities and minorities is an asset and must be clearly described in the proposal.
    • Partnerships between civil society organizations, associations and all other stakeholders are encouraged to improve impact on target populations and sustainability.

Sectors or Themes

• Lot 1:
  • Access to health including mental health, maternal and child care, psychosocial and psychiatric support;
  • Accommodation and emergency assistance;
  • Education including preschool education and childcare;
  • Administrative support including civil registration, mediation services and linguistics (provision of interpreters/translators);
  • Legal support and protection (particularly within the courts).
• Lot 2:
  • Capitalizing on good practices in terms of diaspora involvement in development initiatives local development in favor of migrant populations;
  • Public-private partnerships and financing mechanisms;
  • Territorial coordination and participation of civil society;
  • Decentralized cooperation.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals amounts to EUR 12,500,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to allocate all available funds.
• Amount of grants
  • Any grant requested under this call for proposals must be between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
    • Naming of batches: Lot 1: access to protection and socio-economic integration of populations in a situation of migration and their host communities is facilitated in particular, via Moroccan territorial actors
      • Batch Allocations: 11 000 000
      • Minimum amount in EUR: 2 000 000
      • Maximum amount and EUR: 4 500 000
    • Naming of batches: Lot 2: The joint participation of Moroccans around the world and local Moroccan institutions is facilitated for development and services in the territories
      • Batch Allocations: 1 500 000
      • Minimum amount in EUR: 750 000
      • Maximum amount and EUR: 1 500 000

Duration

• The initial planned duration of an action cannot be less than 36 months nor exceed 48 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s)
  • lot 1 and lot 2
    • To qualify for a grant, the lead applicant must:
      • be a legal entity and
      • have no profit motive and
      • belong to one of the following categories of organizations: non-governmental organization
        • Be established in a Member State of the European Union or in the Kingdom of Morocco or in one of the eligible countries as indicated in the basic act of the IVCDCI — Europe in the world and
      • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and the affiliated entity(ies) and not act as an intermediary and
  • Only for lot 1:
    • Have implemented projects including activities in the field of migration and protection for at least three (3) years.
  • Only for lot 2:
    • Have carried out activities in the service of the Moroccan diaspora for at least three (3) years.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • The lead applicant must act with at least one co-applicant.
  • The co-applicants participate in the development and implementation of the action, and the costs they bear are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those that apply to the lead applicant itself.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies). Only the following entities may be considered affiliated with the lead applicant and/or co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
      • Control relating to annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain forms of undertaking.
      • Entities affiliated with an applicant can therefore be:
        • entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-tier subsidiaries) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-tier subsidiaries). This is valid for the other control levels;
        • entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, these may be entities controlling a company controlling the applicant;
        • entities at the same level of direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies);
      • membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, a federation or an association) than the proposed affiliated entity.

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