Funding for CSOs working on Human Rights and Democracy Issues in PNG

Deadline: 7-Feb-22

The European Commission has launched a call for proposals to support National (local) civil society organizations (CSOs), Democracy Activists and HRDs working on Critical Human Rights and Democracy (HRD) Issues in Partner Countries.

The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve gender equality through strengthened women empowerment, leadership, participation and voice.

The direct beneficiaries receiving the grants resulting from the funding decision are CSOs active in human rights and democratic governance. To strengthen a sense of ownership and long-term empowerment among local players, the main focus of the action will be on CSOs in-country, with particular attention on those organisations that represent marginalised or vulnerable people.

Objectives

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

• Increased election awareness, education and participation of women
• Increased women leadership as well as economic, legal and political empowerment
• Increased voice and capacities of women’s organizations
• Increased capacities of women’s organizations to promote peaceful conflict resolution
• Improved gender balance in the political decision making

Priorities

More specifically, the country allocations will address the following priorities:

• Protecting and empowering individuals. Actions under this priority must contribute to the full enjoyment by everyone of all human rights, be they civil, political, economic, social or cultural rights.
• Building resilient, inclusive and democratic societies. Actions under this area will foster a functioning, pluralist, participatory and representative democracy and protect the integrity of electoral processes
• Safeguarding fundamental freedoms, including harnessing the opportunities and addressing the challenges of new technologies. Actions under this priority must create and maintain an environment conducive to the full exercise of all fundamental freedoms, online and offline.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 650.000 The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds. Reserve list applications under this Call for Proposals may be funded using the 2022 allocation.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 300.000
  • maximum amount: EUR 325.000
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
  • Minimum percentage: 50% of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 95% of the total eligible costs of the action.

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 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.
• 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.
  • 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 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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