Deadline: 10-Apr-22
The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals to support in-country civil society actors in conflict prevention, peace-building and crisis preparedness in the Americas.
Objectives
- The Conflict prevention, peace-building and crisis preparedness part of the Peace, Stability and Conflict Prevention Thematic Programme of NDICI aims to support measures and actions building and strengthening the capacity of the Union and its partners to prevent conflict, build peace and address pre-and post-crisis needs in close coordination with international, regional and sub-regional organisations, state and civil society actors. Actions on conflict prevention should consider the differentiated impacts of conflicts on women, girls, boys and men in all their diversity as well as their contribution to peacebuilding initiatives.
- The global objective of this call for proposals is: to build and strengthen sustainable, in-country capacities for effective conflict management and peace-building and support (sub-)national and regional initiatives in countries affected by/or emerging from conflict or whose peace and stability is at risk.
- The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is to support civil society efforts to promote peace and stability through the promotion of access to reliable information and narratives in Colombia and Brazil.
Priorities
- The priority(ies) of this call for proposals is: Media and Conflict.
- Lot 1 – Brazil
- The priorities of this call include:
- Support media and social media to collect, monitor and analyse gender sensitive data about conflict dynamics for use in early warning programmes or as part of a broader conflict analysis. This can offer new perspectives in understanding conflict contexts
- Leverage social media as a public space for positive political dialogue and countering misinformation, fake news and prejudice that can lead to violence and the perpetuation of gender stereotypes.
- Amplify peaceful voices while shaping the public and political narrative, including countering fake news, harmful gendered narratives and disinformation used against women and girls online and threat narratives. There is also strong potential for fostering coordination and mobilisation around specific non-political causes, enhancing collective action to appease tensions and prevent conflict.
- The priorities of this call include:
- Lot 2 Colombia: Communication for Peace
- The priorities are:
- Strengthen research and reporting skills and dissemination strategies to promote a balanced, gender sensitive and truthful coverage of the implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia, including assessing results achieved, challenges faced and future prospects/opportunities.
- Raise awareness and dismantle misleading and gendered negative narratives around the Peace Agreement that may undermine peace-building efforts in Colombia.
- The priorities are:
- LOT 3 Colombia: Fight against Disinformation
- The priorities actions include:
- Fight and limit the phenomenon of disinformation and the way it perpetuates stereotypes and cause stigmatization (gender based, ethnic, political and social).
- Raise awareness of the adverse effects of disinformation in building stability in Colombia.
- Enhance access to reliable information and evidence-based online/offline content in Colombia.
- The priorities actions include:
Themes
- Lot 1 – Brazil
- In terms of activities and outputs, the following lines of action could be envisaged, but are not limited to:
- Strengthen gender conflict-sensitive investigative and reporting skills of journalists and editorial teams to promote more balanced coverage of conflict-related events and stories;
- Support fact-checking initiatives to combat disinformation;
- Monitor and analyse disinformation flows and evidence-based content, including through technological means;
- Promote counter-narrative and positive messaging campaigns aiming to tackle hate speech, violence incitement, disinformation and other harmful content being spread online;
- Promote collaboration between civil society and social media platforms to tackle harmful content and gendered stereotypes online, including content aimed at attacking journalists, and especially women journalists;
- Support media and digital literacy initiatives to strengthen the skills of the broader public in critical thinking, gender sensitivity and promote safe and ethical use of digital media.
- In terms of activities and outputs, the following lines of action could be envisaged, but are not limited to:
- Lot 2 Colombia: Communication for Peace
- Actions could focus on some of the following themes:
- Promote evidence-based/unbiased narratives and messaging around the Peace Agreement for further conflict prevention and peace-building with territorial approach.
- Support local and national media to portray positive images of women and girls in political and public life
- Support peace-promoting media, good quality and gender conflict-sensitive peace journalism and citizen media with territorial approach.
- Promote higher visibility of concrete positive changes resulting from the Peace Agreement (i.e. stories of peace from the territories and the perspective of women, LGBTI persons, ethnic groups, demobilised combatants, conflict victims).
- Promote initiatives aimed at ensuring that reports in local and national media on human rights violations against women, men, girls and boys are free from social norms and gender-stereotypes.
- Promote spaces of dialogue, mutual learning and collaboration on peace-building between the centre and the regions, between institutions and civil society (i.e. regulations to reduce the spread of fake news that may incite hate speech and violence), between categories of citizens (young people, business people, women, victims, etc) and between sectors that share opposing or difficult to reconcile visions.
- Strengthen the capacities of actors and foster professional and ethical communication around the peace process to enhance public support to peace-building and transitional justice.
- Actions could focus on some of the following themes:
- LOT 3 Colombia: Fight against Disinformation
- Actions should focus on some of the following themes
- Support gender sensitive fact-checking initiatives to combat disinformation, including through the monitoring and analysis of disinformation flows, the provision of real-time alerts on disinformation threats, information/data sharing.
- Promote counter-narrative actions to help tackle hate speech, gender stereotypes, ethnic, social and political stigmatization, violence incitement, disinformation and other harmful content being spread online;
- Promote collaboration between institutions, media professionals, civil society and academia to identify and flag disinformation campaigns and promote accountability and transparency.
- Support initiatives for safer and more responsible use of social media channels.
- Support quality journalism training to accurately report political issues and dismantle misleading narratives.
- Actions should focus on some of the following themes
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 2.500.000.
- Indicative allocation of funds by lot:
- LOT 1: EUR 1.250.000
- LOT 2: EUR 625.000
- LOT 3: EUR 625.000
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- For Lot 1:
- minimum amount: EUR 600.000
- maximum amount: EUR 1.250.000
- For Lot 2:
- minimum amount: EUR 400.000
- maximum amount: EUR 625.000
- For Lot 3:
- minimum amount: EUR 400.000
- maximum amount: EUR 625.000
- For Lot 1:
- 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: 60% 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
- be a specific type of organisation such as a civil society actor. For international non-governmental organisation applicants, partnerships with local organisations established and active in the countries targeted will be necessary to meet this measure’s objectives,
- be established in a Member State of the European Union, Brazil (for Lot 1) or Colombia (for Lot 2 and 3)
- 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.
- Lead applicants that are not established in Brazil (for Lot 1) or Colombia (for Lot 2 and 3), must mandatorily act with at least one co-applicant established in Brazil (for Lot 1) or Colombia (for Lot 2 and 3).
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- 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 in Annex A.2 Section 5.
- 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 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).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- 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.
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
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