Deadline: 26-Apr-21
The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals for 2021 European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) Country Based Support Schemes (CBSS) to support and strengthen civil society organisations, democracy activists and human rights defenders working in critical human rights and democracy issues in the Philippines.
Objectives
The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
- To protect and assist human rights and environmental rights defenders working on the most critical areas of human rights policy and issues
- To promote the empowerment of children and young people, especially their most vulnerable members
- To assist civil society in the promotion of freedom of information and expression
Priorities
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- Lot 1: Support to human rights defenders most at risk: Lot 1 will support human rights defenders (as defined in the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders and by the United Nations) who are most at risk, i.e. working on critical social issues.
- Lot 2: Protection and empowerment of children and young people: This Lot aims to support activities that promote the protection and empowerment of children and young people, with a particular focus on disadvantaged, vulnerable members such girls, young PWDs, indigenous children.
- Lot 3. Combatting disinformation and fake news: The Lot aims to provide support to civil society organisations or institutions engaged in the promotion of freedom of information and expression, and democratic reforms. Proposed actions may include empowering CSOs or the research community to monitor online disinformation through privacy-compliant access to the platforms’ data and addressing the issue of fake accounts and online bots.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1 960 000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds. Indicative allocation of funds by lot/geographical distribution:
- Lot 1: EUR 653 000;
- Lot 2: EUR 653 000;
- Lot 3: EUR 653 000.
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 such as:
- civil society organisations, non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent political foundations, community-based organisations and private sector nonprofit 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) “Eligibility under EIDHR, no nationality restriction applies to lead applicants and, if any, to co-applicants and affiliated entities” and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(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.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
Affiliated entity(ies)
- The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entit (ies).
- Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to coapplicant(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).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- 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
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
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