Deadline: 19-Jan-23
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is inviting applications from non-profit entities for the implementation of the emergency initiative “Integrated intervention of Education and Protection Benefit of Displaced Persons, Refugees and those Returning to Iraq”.
Objectives
- The General Objective of this program is to contribute to guaranteeing safe access to quality educational services for the displaced, refugee and highly vulnerable returned population in line with what is defined in the Strategic Objective.
- The geographical areas of intervention envisaged are those relating to the Governorates of Erbil, Dohuk, Sulaymaniah, Halabja, Nineveh and Salah Al Din. In particular, the Governorate of Nineveh is what hosts the largest number of people in need of humanitarian assistance and where most of the 841,000 highly vulnerable people identified under HRP 2022 reside.
Specific Objective
- The specific objective of the initiative is to help reduce the incidence of negative response strategies involving school-age minors (early marriage, child labour, school dropout), through the use of an integrated approach in the education and protection, aimed at:
- Improving the educational services available to minors, including psychosocial support and school recovery services;
- Support the families most at risk, in order to reduce their vulnerability and facilitate the access or return of minors to the formal school system
- Reduce the risks deriving from the massive presence of unexploded ordnance which pose serious obstacles to the rehabilitation of infrastructures and production activities, as well as to the use of those still viable.
- The specific objective of the program in question therefore consists in preventing and reducing the dangers of protection for at least 1,000 minors, especially girls, belonging to highly vulnerable.
Transversal Themes
- The evaluation of the proposed interventions will take into account how transversal issues (Gender, disability, minors, environmental issues, etc.) will be addressed43 . Particular attention should be paid to the inclusion of women, girls and people with disabilities. Furthermore, the projects must not contain elements that could accentuate inequalities of any kind, structuring the services offered in such a way as to be inclusive and suitable for use regardless of the gender and any disabilities of the reference group.
Funding Information
- The total contribution of AICS for all the interventions carried out by non-profit entities is equal to 619,999.64 euros.
- The portion of the budget dedicated to Mine Risk Awareness and Education activities must not be less than 150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand/00) €;
- Duration of project activities: maximum 15 months (fifteen months)
Areas of intervention
- The geographical areas of the country in which the program activities will take place are those that to date still host the largest number of displaced persons and returnees (Dohuk Governorates, Erbil, Sulaymaniah, Halabja, Nineveh and Salah Al Din), it being understood that the fluidity of the phenomenon of displacement could, at the time of carrying out the activities, lead to a review of the geographical framework of reference. Any territorial limitations of the interventions will be agreed with the diplomatic mission on the basis of the evolution of the security situation in the country
Beneficiary
- With regard to the criteria adopted for the identification of the beneficiaries, the direct beneficiaries, the target beneficiaries and the indirect beneficiaries must be differentiated. As regards the direct beneficiaries, these will be highly vulnerable minors among the displaced, refugee, returned and host community populations. In the selection of the beneficiaries, following an integrated approach, those families must also be included which, although they guarantee access to education, adopt high-risk strategies for this purpose. The direct beneficiaries will be reached by the specific objective also thanks to their relationship with target beneficiaries; the CSOs must, therefore, take care to indicate the number of direct beneficiaries precisely and consistently with what is indicated in the specific objective.
- The target beneficiaries will be those who will be involved in the project activities, such as activities to support teachers and/or caregivers and raise awareness, and who will be able to produce and/or benefit from the results.
- As regards the indirect beneficiaries, these must be clearly identified by the CSOs among the subjects who, thanks to the existing relationship with the direct beneficiaries, are indirectly reached by the specific objective.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposals for this Call for Proposals may be submitted by non-profit organizations which, at the date of submission of the project proposal, meet all of the following requirements:
- Registration in the list pursuant to art. 26, paragraph 3, of Law 125/2014. For non-profit entities without an operational headquarters in Italy (local and/or international non-profit entities), in place of the aforementioned registration in the list, ownership of a partnership agreement with one of the entities registered in the aforementioned list is required. This agreement can be of various nature (affiliation, association, partnership) but must in any case, under penalty of exclusion, be of a general nature, pre-existing this Call for Proposals (and therefore not limited to a specific action or established only for the purpose of participation to this Call) and must remain valid even after the conclusion of the activities relating to this Call;
- Specific and proven experience in emergency interventions;
- For non-profit entities without operational headquarters in Italy (local and/or international non-profit entities), be established and in compliance with the legislation in force in the country of membership;
- They are not debtors to the DGCS of the MAECI and/or AICS or other donors, for certain, liquid and payable debts, including debt situations deriving from measures to revoke contributions for promoted and/or entrusted projects;
- Have not engaged in behavior characterized by gross negligence or bad faith in the implementation of DGCS/MAECI, AICS, other donor projects or in the exercise of their activities;
- Ability to operate on site;
- They are not registered in the lists of subjects subject to restrictive measures, which can be consulted. This requirement must also be possessed by the partners involved in the implementation of the project
- Undertake to sign the Declaration on safety matters, in the event of approval of their project proposal, before signing the specification;
- In the case of joint projects in Temporary Purpose Association (ATS): each of the non-profit entities forming part of the ATS must meet the requirements.
For more information, visit Call for Proposals.