Deadline: 10 April 2019
The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “EIDHR Country-Based Support Scheme (CBSS)- Botswana 2018-2019” to increase and deepen civil society organisations’ engagement in human rights and democracy in Botswana.
Priority Areas
The priority areas for this call are:
- Promotion and protection of women’s and girls’ rights, targeting specifically gender and family based violence and/or teenage pregnancy.
- Promotion of broad and inclusive political and social dialogue on:
- ‘access to information/freedom of expression’ ; and/or
- Child protection
- minority/ indigenous rights; and/or
- the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons; and/or
- the death penalty
Size of Grants
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount per lot: EUR 100,000
- maximum amount per lot: EUR 150,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead applicant
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making 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 and
- be able to demonstrate that they have regularly carried out activities in the field of human rights and democracy at least during the last two years at the time of submission of an application 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 and
- belong to one of the following categories :
- be civil society organisations, including non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent political foundations, community-based organisations and private sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks thereof; or
- be international inter-governmental organisations, as defined of the Rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation, applying together with an eligible local applicant;
- 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, applicants will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or will be required to leave the project on the basis of the grant agreement’.
- This obligation does not apply to international organisations.
- Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations
- Eligible applicants having a nationality other than that of Botswana must act together with at least one national organisation acting as a co-applicant or as an affiliate. Effective cooperation with national organisations is mandatory and all actions should ensure involvement of at least one Botswana organisation during all stages of the implementation of the action.
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- 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.
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
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, please visit https://bit.ly/2Ei1bFo and download the guidelines.