CFPs: Support Civil Society Actors in Conflict Prevention, Peace-Building and Crisis Preparedness

Deadline: 22-Mar-24

The European Commission (EC) has announced a call for proposals to contribute to effective conflict prevention, peace building and crisis preparedness.

Objectives of the Programme and Priority Issues

• The specific objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen the institutional and operational capacity of in-country civil society actors, specifically focusing on youth in peace and security.
• The priority of this call for proposals is promoting conflict prevention and conflict resolution measures targeting in particular young people engaged in peace and security actions, including by facilitating and building capacity in confidence-building, mediation, dialogue and reconciliation processes.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3,900,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Indicative allocation of funds by lot/geographical distribution:
  • Lot 1: Sri Lanka and Maldives – Allocation of EUR 1,300,000
  • Lot 2: Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal – Allocation of EUR 2,600,000
• Size of grants
  • Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
    • minimum amount: EUR 1,200,000
    • maximum amount: EUR 1,300,000

Duration

• The initial planned duration of an action must be 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s)
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a civil society actor
    • be established in any country or territory of the world
    • either the lead applicant is a local civil society organisation
    • the lead applicant must act with at least one local civil society organisation as co-applicant
    • 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, with project coordination structures or mechanisms based in the Asian region.
• 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 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 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 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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