European Commission: Open Call for Strengthening EU partnership with Yemeni CSOs

Deadline: 4-Jun-22

The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to Strengthen EU partnership with Yemeni CSOs for the development of Yemen.

Objectives

The specific objective(s) of this call are the following:

• To promote an inclusive, participatory, empowered, an independent civil society and democratic space in Yemen.
• To promote an inclusive and open dialogue with and between civil society organizations
• To support Yemeni CSOs in the implementation of development actions contributing to one or more of the three thematic priority areas of this call, namely:
  • Integrated human and social development
  • Promoting economic stability and growth
  • Promoting peace and security

Funding Information

• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • Minimum amount: EUR 2,000,000
  • Maximum amount: EUR 2,124,912

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 non-governmental organisation
• be established in a Member State of the European Union or in developing countries and territories, as included in the list of ODA recipients published by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, which are not members of the G-20 group, and overseas countries and territories; or member countries of the OECD
• 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
• be able to and have all necessary legal/administrative documents to operate in Yemen
• have proven experience of implementing development actions in Yemen for at least 3 years in the period from 2017 to 2022
• have proven experience of working with Yemeni CSOs
• have proven experience of having implemented a project worth at least EUR 2 million during the past five years.
• 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 only the eligibility criteria applicable to the lead applicant
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form
• Affiliated entities
  • 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 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.

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