Grants for Strengthening the Role of CSOs in promoting Food Security and Economic Empowerment of Women in Vanuatu

Deadline: 11-Oct-21

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals for Strengthening the role of civil society in promoting food security and economic empowerment of women.

• To strengthen food security and the economic empowerment of women through the adoption of a green growth and the promotion of sustainable foods systems.
• To strengthen CSOs’ capacities related to management (including finance and accountability and strategies planning and implementation), crisis-response, social and economic resilience, and advocacy.

• sustainable food systems and
• climate smart agricultural practices.

• Supporting local innovative initiatives that create an enabling environment for smallholder farmers and other small-scale food producers;
• Supporting agriculture diversification to contribute to both income and diet diversification;
• Supporting initiatives that contribute to reduce CO2 emission and/or promote carbon sequestration throughout the different levels of the food systems;
• Contributing to preserving economic livelihoods by protecting local value chains, connecting local producers to local consumers and preserving access to markets;
• Contributing to preserving the natural resources through the adoption of sustainable practices e.g. soils and water management, organic, crop rotation, agroforestry, multiple cropping, mosaic landscape, etc..

• economic empowerment of woman must be the predominant approach to be implemented through the type of actions described under the previous paragraph;
• capacity building activities for Vanuatu-based CSOs in order to perform their roles in basic services delivery, advocacy and awareness, including staff development activities for the applicant, its co- applicants and financial support to third parties are elaborated and included in the budget
• collaboration with other relevant CSOs:
  • at the minimum one co-applicant (a lead- or co-applicant must be Vanuatu-based);
  • compulsory collaboration with minimum one Vanuatu-based CSO as a third party;
• alignment with the National Sustainable Development Plan, the Overarching Productive Sector Policy, and the National Gender Equality Policy.

• minimum amount: EUR 500,000
• maximum amount: EUR 1,200,000

• Lead applicant(s)
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person; and
    • be non-profit-making ; and
    • be a Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) and/or associations of CSOs; and
    • be established in Vanuatu  where the Action is taking place, or in a Member State of the European Union or in a IPA II beneficiary or in a country of the European Economic Area or in one of the developing countries and territories, (included in the OECD-DAC list of ODA recipients), which are not members of the G20 group or in Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) or in an OECD country; 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.
    • International Organisations are eligible.
• 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.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
• 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 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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