Grants to Conduct Transparent, Credible, Inclusive and Peaceful Elections in Ghana

Deadline: 4-May-22

The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch a call for proposals to conduct transparent, credible, inclusive and peaceful elections in Ghana.

Objective: The specific objective of this call for proposals is advocating for the implementation of the 2020 European Union Election Observation mission recommendations to contribute to transparent, credible, inclusive and peaceful elections in Ghana.

Priorities

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

• Clear procedures for presiding officers, returning officers and regional collation officers to be stipulated on how to proceed in cases of irregularities during the counting and collation process, including over-voting, mismatched reconciliation, incomplete and wrongly filled in results forms.
• The Electoral Commission to publish on its website detailed polling station results for all elections, as well as detailed results from all levels of collation well before the deadline for filing petitions against results.
• Establish a reasonable deadline for the ruling on parliamentary election petitions in the High Court and Court of Appeal, which will increase stakeholder access to an effective remedy and increase public confidence. Parliamentary elections petitions be commenced within 21 days after declaration of results just like presidential election petitions.
• Enact and implement an Affirmative Action Law installing at least a 30 per cent quota of women in governance and decision-making positions, with a progressive increase to a party of 50 per cent. Require political parties to adopt party quotas to promote women’s participation in politics.
• Limit the role of the National Communications Authority (NCA) to administer broadcasting signals and transfer its licensing and sanctioning powers to the National Media Commission (NMC) in order to create one sole and completely independent media regulatory authority, in charge of allocating broadcasting licenses, analysing broadcasting contents and dealing with media-related complaints.

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.

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

• minimum amount: EUR 450,000.00
• maximum amount: EUR 500,000.00

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 organization
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or in Ghana,
    • 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
    • Be registered in Ghana by an instrument governed by the national law of the country concerned and with an office located in Ghana.
• 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.
  • At least one Co-applicant must be established in Ghana if the lead applicant is not established in Ghana.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • • 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, 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.Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to coapplicant(s):

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