EU announces Call for Proposals for 2020 EIDHR Country Based Support Scheme

Deadline: 15 April 2020

The European Union (EU) has announced a Call for Proposals for 2020 European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) Country Based Support Scheme (CBSS).

Objectives

The global objectives of this call for proposals are:

To support human rights and human rights defenders in situations where they are most at risk (EIDHR Global Objective 1)
To support other priorities of the Union in the field of human rights where the Union has an added value or specific thematic commitment (EIDHR Global Objective 2).

The specific objective of this call for proposals is:

To support the work of civil society organisations in addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups (IPs and human rights defenders) with a particular focus on protecting them and supporting their empowerment to claim their rights.

Priorities

This call for proposals will have two lots that each correspond to a focal theme and linked to the above mentioned objectives of the programme and priority issues:

Lot 1: Support to human rights defenders most at risk
Lot 2: Support to indigenous peoples most at risk of discrimination, marginalisation and other forms of violations of their nationally and internationally protected rights

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 980 000.
Indicative allocation of funds by lot:
- Lot 1: EUR 490 000
- Lot 2: EUR 490 000
Size of grants
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  - Minimum amount: EUR 100 000
  - Maximum amount: EUR 250 000

Duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 12 months nor exceed 36 months.

Location

Actions must take place in the Philippines. However, the actions may include limited number of activities outside Philippines but these must be linked to the action’s objectives and of limited duration (e.g. attendance in International forum to present CSO human rights reports or testimonies).

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 specific type of organisation as defined in Article 11.2 (a) and (b) and (c) of Regulation No 236/2014 such as :
  - Civil society organisations, non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent political foundations, community-based organisations and private sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and network thereof at local, national, regional and international level;
  - Public sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks at local, national and international level;
Be established in a Member State of the European Union or an eligible country as stipulated in the CIR. Pursuant to Commission Implementation Rules (CIR) Article 11 “Eligibility under EIDHR, no nationality restriction applies to lead applicants and, if any, to co-applicants and affiliated entities. However, where the lead applicant is not registered in the Philippines, it must act with minimum one co-applicant registered in the Philippines, and
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.

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.

How to Apply

The application procedure consists of two phases:
- Concept notes
- Full applications
The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted at the address given on the website.

For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2Ppnr6e and download the guidelines.