EU announces European Instrument for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights (Brazil)

Deadline: 3 March 2020

The European Union (EU) has announced the European Instrument for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights to support civil society in its actions aimed at defending human rights and fundamental freedoms and human rights defenders in Brazil.

LOTs

LOT 1: Indian people

Specific Objective: The actions to be programmed in this Lot will be oriented to face the violence and violations that selectively affect indigenous peoples, which leads to the need to support civil society actions for their protection.
The actions to be proposed must respond to the specific objective of the Lot and focus on at least one of the following priorities:
- Strengthening the capacities of indigenous peoples to guarantee and exercise their constitutional rights.
- Support for the protection, security and territorial integrity of Indigenous Lands.
- Monitoring the status of implementation of public policies, plans, projects and public actions for human rights of indigenous peoples and promoting complaints of violations of their rights in national and international protection agencies.

LOT 2: Defenders of Human Rights

Specific Objective: The actions to be programmed in this Lot will be oriented to support human rights defenders and civil society organizations that work on issues associated with human rights violations and attacks against fundamental freedoms, with special attention to human rights defenders. human rights.
The actions to be proposed must respond to the specific objective of the Lot and focus on at least one of the following priorities:
- Strengthening of the protection capacities of human rights defenders and organizations of which they are a part or that act in the protection of human rights defenders.
- Development of strategies, procedures and instruments, qualification of protection and self-protection networks, mutual support and construction of articulated alternatives of protection and self-protection of human rights defenders.
- Monitoring the state of implementation of public policies, plans, projects and actions for human rights defenders and working with national and international human rights protection organizations.

Size of Grants

LOT 1
- Minimum amount: 400.000 Euros
- Maximum amount: 800.000 Euros
LOT 2
- Minimum amount: 800.000 Euros
- Maximum amount: 1.000.000 Euros

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant

To be eligible for a grant, lead applicants must:
be a legal person or an entity without legal personality or a natural person and
non-profit making and
be a civil society organization and have experience of at least 4 years in the subject to be addressed by the proposal and
be directly responsible, together with its co-applicant (s) and affiliated entity (ies), for the preparation and management of the action and not act as intermediaries;
there is no restriction on the applicant’s nationality nor, if applicable, that of the co-applicant or affiliated entities. However, non-Brazilian civil society organizations must have at least one Brazilian civil society organization as a co-applicant.

Co-applicants

Co-applicants must participate in the design and implementation of the action and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as the costs borne by the main applicant.
Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those applicable to the lead applicant itself.

Affiliated Entities

The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) can compete with affiliated entity (ies).
Only the following entities can be considered as entities affiliated with the main applicant and / or the co-applicant (s):
- Only legal entities that have a structural link with the applicant (ie the main applicant or a co-applicant), namely a legal or financial link.
- This structural link essentially includes two notions:
  - Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain forms of companies:
    - Thus, entities affiliated with an applicant can be:
      - Entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (affiliated companies). They can also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiary companies), the same applying to subsequent levels of control;
      - Entities that control the applicant directly or indirectly (parent companies). Likewise, they can be entities that control an entity that controls the applicant;
      - Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (subsidiary companies).
  - Membership status, that is, the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, a federation, an association in which the proposed affiliated entities participate equally or the applicant participates in the same entity (for example, a network, a federation, an association) than the proposed affiliated entities.