European Union’s Tackling Gender Concerns in Ghana

Deadline: 22-Jun-21

The European Union (EU) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Tackling Gender Concerns to support actions that will contribute significantly to tackling human rights and gender equality challenges in Ghana.

Objectives and Priority Issues

The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals are:

• Promote the implementation of specific actions that will contribute to the prevention of violence against women and girls in Ghana
• Support the implementation of actions that will end child marriage in Ghana

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

• Concerted actions by civil society organisations and human rights defenders to ensure the implementation of relevant laws, policies, and actions that will prevent violence against women and girls in Ghana
• The identification and advocacy for specific policy measures, community initiatives, national legislation among others to help prevent child marriage in Ghana.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,000,000.00 The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Size of grants: Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 450,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 495,000

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant(s)

• be a legal person and
• be non-profit-making and
• be a Civil Society Organisation and
• established in Ghana or any other country and
• 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
• Must have a proven track record of at least three years of promoting Human Rights in Ghana.

• 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.
• At least one Co-applicant must be registered in Ghana if the lead applicant is not from Ghana.
• Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.

• 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).
    • 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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