European Union: Call for Proposals for ‘Support to Resilience for Sustainable Livelihoods’ Program

Deadline: 25 October 2018

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Support to Resilience for Sustainable Livelihoods” to contribute towards increased resilience of communities in ASAL areas of Kenya to drought and other effects of climate change.

Objectives

• Enhance food and nutrition security of vulnerable households, especially for women and children.
• Generate sustainable livelihoods and protect productive assets.

Size of Grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between EUR 4.4 million and EUR 4.5 million.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • 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, public sector operator, local authority and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or a Member State of the EEA (European Economic Area) or an ACP-EC Partnership Agreement. For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. If the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, applicants will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or be required to leave the project on the basis of the General Conditions to the grant agreement 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 and
    • be able to demonstrate that it has implemented similar project of not less than EUR 1.5 million over the last five years (between January 2013 and December 2017) and have experience in implementing similar projects in ASAL areas.
  • Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations.
• 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.
• Affiliated entity(ies)
  • 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 applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries).
        • They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an 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.

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.

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