EU-Citizen Rights Project: Increasing Women Participation in Public Life for Egyptian Society

Deadline: 11 September 2017

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Increase women participation in public life” under the Citizen Rights Project to strengthen women’s role in Egyptian society and increase gender equality in the country.

The programme is divided into two lots:

• For Lot 1: To support community-based initiatives aiming at economic and social empowerment of women;
• For Lot 2: To support community-based initiatives aiming at combating all forms of violence against women.

Size of Grants

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between EUR 100,000 and EUR 400,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
    • be a legal person
    • be non-profit-making
    • be a non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority
    • be established in Egypt, in a Member State of the European Union or any state covered under the European Neighbourhood Instrument 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.
  • Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if it is in any of the situations
• Co-applicant(s)
  • The applicant, if not Egyptian, must apply in a partnership of at least 1 Egyptian co-applicant.
  • Egyptian lead applicants may act with at least 1 co-applicant, Egyptian or not.
  • Co-applicant(s) participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant.
• Affiliated entity(ies):
  • The applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the 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 a beneficiary may hence be:
      • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the beneficiary (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the beneficiary (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
      • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the beneficiary (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the beneficiary;
      • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the beneficiary (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.

How to Apply

• The application procedure consists of two phases:
  • Concept notes
  • Full applications
• In the first instance, only concept notes must be submitted for evaluation. Thereafter, lead applicants who have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a full application.

Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Egypt.

For more information, please visit Europeaid and download the guidelines.