Deadline: 19 May 2020
The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals for promoting local CSOs’ capacity to perform their roles as independent development actors more effectively.
The specific objectives(s) of this call for proposals is/are:
- Lot 1: To enhance the capacity of civil society to promote and empower persons with disabilities; to ensure that people with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights in Liberia.
- Lot 2: To enhance the capacity of civil society actors on national, county and community level to ensure informed and equal access to land rights in Liberia.
Priorities
The priorities of this call for proposals is/are:
- Lot 1:
- To develop sustainable capacities of people with disabilities to advocate and become acknowledged counterparts of public authorities and other key stakeholders in the development and implementation of policies targeting the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and offering skill training to people with disability.
- To increase CSO’s national level lobbying and advocacy on disability issues using a rights-based approach.
- Building the capacity of persons with disabilities through skill trainings and inclusion.
- Lot 2:
- Community boundaries are clearly defined, recorded and surveyed in accordance with national regulations and through well-trained personnel
- Community engagement for land use planning is enhanced and improved to allow for free, prior and informed consent, inclusiveness and good governance in all land matters
- Information about land sector reforms and land rights are communicated clearly, widely and without enhancing legal disputes and conflicts throughout the country
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,887,000.00. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
- Size of grants
- Lot 1
- Minimum amount: EUR 400,000.
- Maximum amount: EUR 550,000.
- Lot 2
- Minimum amount: EUR 668,500.
- Maximum amount: EUR 1,337,000.
- Lot 1
Duration
The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 36 months.
Location
Actions must take place in Liberia. Actions must take place in at least 3 counties of Liberia.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicant(s)
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- Be a legal person;
- Be non-profit making;
- Be a Civil Society Organisation;
- Be established in Liberia or in any of the following countries:
- Developing countries and territories, as included in the list of ODA recipients published by the OECD-DAC (‘list of ODA recipients’), and overseas countries and territories covered by the Council Decision 2013/755/EU;
- Member State of the European Union or other eligible country as indicated in Regulation n°236/2014 laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action.
- For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. Unless sector-specific eligibility rules provide otherwise, if the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or will be required to leave the project on the basis of Article 12 of the grant agreement’.
- 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, and;
- In case the lead applicant is not established in Liberia, apply with at least one co-applicant established in Liberia.
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).
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
- 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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