EU seeking Proposals to support Local Civil Society Action through Country Based Support Scheme

Deadline: 24 April 2020

The European Union (EU) is seeking proposals to enable civil society organizations to engage as actors of development and peaceful resolution of conflicts.

The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is/are: To empower, strengthen and support the work of actors in the communities and the society to address conflict and violence, and to contribute to promoting peace in Southern Highlands, Hela and Enga Provinces.

Priorities

The priorities of this call for proposals is/are:

Promote the participation of individuals and communities to take an active role in managing and resolving conflicts at all levels to contribute to achieving peaceful and inclusive societies.
Resolving of inter-communal conflicts at community level: Proposals must include community-led conflict mediation and resolution initiatives that include all parties in the peace building and conflict resolution process. The parties, as well has the specific roles that they will play, need to be clearly identified.
Preventing violence, maintaining peace and inter-communal order: Proposals must put forward initiatives to prevent further violence and future conflicts. Possible causes of violence and target groups should be identified and innovative ways of engagement in the whole process of preventing violence and conflicts proposed.
Advocacy, awareness raising, policy dialogue: Proposals must adequately demonstrate what information, education and communication tools and materials will be used for advocacy and awareness raising. The selection of tools and materials should be based on evidence about their effectiveness. As violence is a phenomenon affecting individuals and communities in the three provinces, proposals must demonstrate how dialogue and interactions between warring parties or affected communities can be facilitated.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1 million. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 200,000
- maximum amount: EUR 333,000

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: non-governmental organisation and
be established in a Member State of the European Union or as applicant: non-profit making CSOs and their associations from the following countries shall be eligible for funding under the CSO-LA Programme; the EU partner country where the action takes place; developing countries and territories, as included in the list of ODA recipients published by the OECD-DAC (‘list of ODA recipients’), and overseas countries and territories covered by Council Decision 2013/755/EU; countries eligible for the European Development Fund; Member States

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 of the grant application form.
If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).

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 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 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.