Grants to Promote and Protect Defenders of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Tunisia)

Deadline: 22-Apr-22

The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its grant program to Promote and Protect Defenders of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Objectives

It is composed of three specific objectives:

• to protect and empower individuals to the full enjoyment of all human rights, whether civil, political, economic, social or cultural;
• promote functional, pluralistic, participatory and representative democracy and protect the integrity of electoral processes;
• safeguard fundamental freedoms, in particular by exploiting the opportunities and meeting the challenges of new technologies.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,920,000.
• The amount of EUR 1,000,000 is financed from the country allocation for 2021 and the rest, i.e. EUR 920,000 from the 2022 allocation.
• Grant amount
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 400,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 800,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s)
  • To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • have no profit motive and
    • be a non-governmental organization
    • be directly responsible for preparing and managing the action with the co-applicant(s) and the affiliated entity(ies) and not act as an intermediary.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • Co-applicants take part in drawing up and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as apply to the lead applicant itself.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
  • Only the following entities can be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and/or co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
      • control, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings.
        • Entities affiliated with an applicant can therefore be:
          • entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-tier subsidiaries) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-tier subsidiaries). This is valid for the other control levels;
          • entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Similarly, they may be entities controlling a company controlling the applicant;
          • entities with the same level of direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies);
      • membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, a federation or an association,) than the proposed affiliated entity.

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