EU accepting Applications for Strengthening Policy Dialogue in Reform Processes (Serbia)

Deadline: 18-Sep-20

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals for strengthening the policy dialogue in reform processes.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is: To strengthen policy dialogue in reform processes, facilitate engagement and dialogue between central and local state institutions and non-state actors towards improved public policy dialogue.
• The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is/are:
  • To facilitate interaction and collaboration between state actors and institutional mechanisms and non-state actors (civil society, think tanks, social partners, media, researchers etc.) related to evidence based policy dialogue in reform processes.
  • To establish a capacity development platform to support non state actors in areas related to public policy formulation, policy budgeting, implementation and monitoring.
  • To foster and enhance communication on policy dialogue through strengthened dialogue between media community, state institutions and non-state actors and civil society, think tanks, researchers, social partners and other relevant actors.

Priorities

The priority of this call for proposals is: to horizontally empower civil society, particularly in sectors with lower civil society capacity and activities, aiming to strengthen the policy dialogue in reform processes.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,500,000.
• Size of Grants
  • minimum amount: EUR 1,350,000.
  • maximum amount: EUR 1,500,000.

Duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 30 months nor exceed 42 months

Location

Actions must take place in Serbia.

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
  • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
  • be a competent Government Department or relevant mandated body of a Government Department or public body authority of a European Union Member State working in the fields related to this action, or
  • be a civil society organisation established in Serbia or a Member State of the European Union.
  • If the lead applicant is established in Serbia, then at least one co-applicant should be established in an EU Member State and vice versa.

Co-applicant(s)

• Further co-applicants established in Serbia or in a Member State of the European Union, matching the applicable eligibility criteria, may be included as found appropriate for implementing the action.
• The lead applicant must act together with at least one co-applicant, which satisfies the eligibility criteria below:
  • If the lead applicant is established in Serbia, then at least one co-applicant should be established in an EU Member State and vice versa.
  • 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.

Affiliated entity(ies)

• 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, 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 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.

For more information, visit EuropeAid and download the guidelines.