European Union: Supporting Civil Society in Respect of Human Rights, Promotion of Individual Freedoms and Economic and Social Rights in Tunisia

Deadline: 12 February 2019

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Supporting Civil Society in Respect of Human Rights, Promotion of Individual Freedoms and Economic and Social Rights in Tunisia”.

Objectives and Priorities

• The overall objective of this call for proposals is to support the initiatives of Tunisian civil society and human rights defenders to strengthen their participation, actions and strategies in promoting rights and individual freedoms and economic and social rights.
• This call for proposals has the following specific objectives:
  • Specific objective 1 – Individual rights and freedoms
    • The defense, promotion and enforcement of individual rights and freedoms, in particular through their promotion, prevention and protection from infringements of these rights and freedoms, and support for implementation of concrete actions.
  • Specific objective 2 – Economic and social rights
    • The defense, promotion and enforcement of economic and social rights, in particular through their promotion, prevention and structuring of actors and support for the implementation of actions concrete.

Size of Grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must be between following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 500 000
• maximum amount: EUR 1,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicant
  • To qualify for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • have no profit and
    • belong to one of the following categories of organizations: primarily civil society, including non-governmental organization. So relevant to reach the objectives of this call for proposals: public sector operator, local authority, organization (Intergovernmental) Agreement as defined of the Rules implementing the Financial Regulation of the European Union
    • to be established in a Member State of the European Union or any other eligible country under the EIDHR, including Tunisia. There are no nationality restrictions on this call for proposal; and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicants and the affiliated entity or entities, and not act as an intermediary.
• Co-Applicant (s)
  • The co-applicants participate in the development and implementation of the action, and the costs they are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those applying to lead applicant himself.
• Affiliated entity (ies)
  • The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
  • Only the following entities may be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and / or to the co-applicant (s):
    • Only those entities that have a structural link to the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
      • control, within the meaning of Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of enterprises:
        • Entities affiliated with an applicant may therefore be:
          • entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or subsidiaries of first rank) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second level affiliates), and this is valid for other levels of control;
          • entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Of the similarly, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
          • controlled entities, directly or indirectly, at the same level as the applicant (sister companies).
      • membership, ie the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, a federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, federation or association) that the proposed affiliated entity.

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 at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2EFPElJ and download the guidelines.