Deadline: 21 October 2019
The European Union (EU) is seeking proposals for its program entitled “Support to Civil Society Organisations in Tonga” with an aim to strengthening the capacity and participation levels of Civil Society in the development and implementation of various sectors with the Government of Tonga.
The global objective of this call for proposal is to address the limited capacities of Civil Society Organisations and limited linkages between CSOs and Government in development cooperation.
Priorities
Lot 1: Strengthening CSO’s capacity to effectively engage with government in policy dialogue and governance
- All proposals must clearly identify at least one of the priority activities below in order to be eligible for funding.
- Capacity Building of the individual CSO’s, particularly in terms of research based advocacy, data collection, organisational learning, and hands on training and mentoring, monitoring and oversight mechanisms and information sharing. Capacity building could also include support for specific thematic advocacy and policy engagement oriented activities.
- Support engagement of CSOs with Government and national agencies on the facilitation of specific thematic advocacy (such as sectorial strategies) and policy engagement oriented activities and good governance, although not exclusively, aligned to the TSDF II and relevant SDGs.
- Empowerment delivery of training and mentoring of communities and civil society on the process of National planning, and policy-making that Government of Tonga undertakes, and how such processes affect civil society, and also verify the recognition of Civil Society priorities.
Lot 2: Supporting CSO’s, Community and Community Based Organizations to promote/build awareness on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the energy sector
- All proposals must clearly identify at least two of the priority activities below in order to be eligible for funding.
- Promote awareness program(s) and educational activities on renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Facilitate advocacy activities in the communities on the importance of renewable energy and energy efficiency and their impact on the people of the Tonga
- Provide capacity building activities to effectively manage energy resources in Tonga
Lot 3: Supporting CSO’s role in enhancing gender equality in development
- All proposals must clearly identify the at least two priority activities below in order to be eligible for funding.
- Actions promoting awareness and educational activities among the public and in schools on domestic violence, recognition of harassments and its impact on families and the development of the society
- Advocacy and promoting public awareness on the Family Safety Act 2013;
- Actions promoting awareness that aim to ‘change’ attitudes and mind-sets that result in the behaviours that legitimise violence against women in Tonga
- Advocacy on rights of women
- Promoting of women and girls empowerment initiatives to become catalysts for change, and tackling issues of gender based violence
- Promoting of initiatives for economic empowerment of women and girls to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways that recognise the value of their contributions and respect their dignity.
Lot 4: Supporting CSO’s role in addressing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
- All proposals must clearly identify at least one of the priority activities below in order to be eligible for funding.
- Supporting awareness raising and educational initiatives on empowering women and young people as key actors for improving nutrition for themselves and families (through income, control of resources and knowledge)
- Supporting awareness raising initiatives in the implementation of nutrition related programmes for vulnerable households
- Supporting the promotion of active lifestyles and making healthy choices particularly for young people (girls) to address the arduous effects of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
Lot 4: Supporting CSO in youth empowering and development programs
- All proposals must clearly identify at least one of the priority activities below in order to be eligible for funding.
- To facilitate the building of capacities initiatives of youth empowerment and leadership through strengthening of youth councils, youth leaders and young people (in particular girls).
- Promoting of actions that promote young people’s potential as agents of change (requires involving and empowering them in development, policies and supporting their participation at all levels)
- Promoting of initiatives for economic empowerment of the youth.
- Promoting of initiatives for youth engagement in building resilience in communities and of youth in the future development agenda in Tonga.
Size of grants
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- Lot 1: Strengthening CSO’s capacity to effectively engage with government in policy dialogue and governance: TOP 250,000
- minimum amount: TOP 125,000
- maximum amount: TOP 250,000
- Lot 2: Supporting CSO’s, Community and Community Based Organizations to promote/build awareness on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the energy sector: TOP 250,000
- minimum amount: TOP 125,000
- maximum amount: TOP 250,000
- Lot 3: Supporting CSO’s role in enhancing gender equality in development: TOP 250,000
- minimum amount: TOP 125,000
- maximum amount: TOP 250,000
- Lot 4: Supporting CSO’s role in addressing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs): TOP 125,000
- minimum amount: TOP 62,500
- maximum amount: TOP 125,000
- Lot 5: Supporting CSO in youth empowering and development programs: TOP 250,000
- minimum amount: TOP 125,000
- maximum amount: TOP 250,000
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicant
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation
- be established in the Kingdom of Tonga or, in the case of a Co-applicant, in one of the countries. Please note that the lead applicant in all cases must be legally established in the Kingdom of Tonga.
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary and
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 entities
- 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 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:
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 online via given website.
For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2kgIETT and download the guidelines.