EU-Chad announces Call for Proposals for Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities

Deadline: 2 July 2019

The European Union (EU) has announced a Call for Proposals which is part of Objective 1 of the Thematic Program “Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities”, for actions carried out in the Republic of Chad, namely: The aim of this call for proposals is to: General: Support civil society organizations (CSOs) as part of development policy.

This call for proposals has the specific objective (s):

• Promotion of living together through artistic production (itinerant theater, stories, films, songs, poems …) (Lot 1).
• Information, awareness raising and advocacy for the respect of women’s rights and their integration in all public policies (Lot 2).
• Support for youth initiatives, especially citizen movements, bloggers, social networks, young entrepreneurs (Lot 3).

This call for proposals is given priority (s):

The actions selected must include one or more of the following elements:

• Integrate an approach involving local authorities or include elements of complementarity / synergy with one or more state structures.
• Contribute to developing the capacity of civil society at national and local levels to build and maintain networks; to promote their monitoring and control capacities, as well as dialogue and advocacy with the public authorities.
• Dlearly demonstrate a transfer of skills to grassroots organizations.
• To promote and develop entrepreneurship, especially that of women and young people.

In addition, all proposals submitted under lot 2 should endeavor to specifically analyze the situation of girls / women in the specific context of their action and propose indicators aggregated by gender as well as propose a capacity building component of CSOs. in particular with the chosen priority.

Funding Information

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must be between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

Lots Minimum Amount Maximum Amount

• Lot 1 300000 600.000EUR
• Lot 2 200000 400.000EUR
• Lot 3 300000 600.000EUR

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicant
  • To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • have no profit and
    • belong to one of the following categories of organizations: non-governmental organization, public sector operator, local authority, international (intergovernmental) organization as defined in Article 43 of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation of the Union European and
    • be established in Chad or in a Member State of the European Union or the EEA
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant (s) and the entity or affiliated entities, and not act as an intermediary and
    • have the capacity, evidenced by supporting documents to be submitted, to implement and manage an action of an amount comparable to that of the grant application.
• Co-Applicant (s)
  • The co-applicants participate in the preparation and implementation of the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those applying to the lead applicant itself.
• Affiliated entity (ies)
  • The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
  • Only the following entities may be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and / or the co-applicant (s):
    • Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
      • control, within the meaning of Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
        • Entities affiliated with an applicant may therefore be:
          • entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-tier subsidiaries) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-tier subsidiaries), and this is valid for other levels of control;
          • entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Similarly, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
          • controlled entities, directly or indirectly, at the same level as the applicant (sister companies).
      • membership, that is, the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, federation or association) than the proposed affiliated entity.

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/2vsVWyn and download the guidelines.