EU Call for Proposals: Promoting Landscape Approach in Tonle SAP Biosphere Reserve and supporting Socio-Economic Development of Tonle SAP and Coastal Fishing Communities – Cambodia

Deadline: 15-Sep-20

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals to sustain the productivity and the biodiversity of the Tonle Sap area and build the resilience of the Tonle Sap and coastal fishing communities to climate change as well as to reduce the social and economic gap between these communities and the rest of Cambodia’s population.

• Specific Objective 1: To support socio-economic development of Cambodia fishing communities in the Tonle Sap and the coastal regions;
• Specific Objective 2: To promote an integrated and sustainable wetland management and rehabilitation of the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve (TSBR), which attains simultaneously objectives related to biodiversity, food security/fisheries/agriculture/livelihoods, and climate change

• For Specific Objective 1 (S01):
  • Improving the quality of the Tonle Sap and Coastal Region fishing communities’ living environment and reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases;
  • Promoting access of children from Tonle Sap and Coastal Region fishing communities to education;
  • Promoting sustainable alternative livelihoods in the Tonle Sap and the coastal region in Cambodia
• For Specific Objective 2 (SO2):
  • Landscape planning and management;
  • Fire management, including fire prevention and monitoring;
  • Vegetation assessment, rehabilitation and restoration, in particular regarding the flooded forest;
  • Selected agriculture and forest management support.

• minimum amount: EUR 3,500,000
• maximum amount: EUR 4,000,000

• minimum amount: EUR 3,500,000
• maximum amount: EUR 4,000,000

• minimum amount: EUR 3,500.000
• maximum amount: EUR 4,000.000

Lot 4: Integrated Landscape management in the TSBR

• minimum amount: EUR 4,900,000
• maximum amount: EUR 4,900.000

• be a legal person and
• be non-profit-making and
• be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation and
• be established ins Cambodia or in a Member State of the European Union or in a beneficiary country listed in Annex I to Instrument for Pre-Accession 11 established by the Regulation (EU) No 231/2014 or in contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or in a developing country and territory, as included in the list of ODA recipients published by the OECD-DAC (list of ODA recipients’) 9, which is not a member of the G20 Group or in an oversea country or territory covered by Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 or in a Member State of the OECDI°. This obligation does not apply to international organisations and
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(), not acting as an intermediary.

• 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
• Co-applicants must sign the mandate in the grant application form.
• If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(S) in the action (together with the coordinator).

• The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity
• 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 2013/34iEU on the annual fmancial 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.