Open Call “DELPAZ – Local Development for the Consolidation of Peace in Mozambique”

Deadline: 25-Jan-22

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) is calling for proposals for programme “DELPAZ – Local Development for the Consolidation of Peace in Mozambique” with an aim to address both the long-standing roots and the contemporary consequences of conflict in Mozambique’s central region.

The premise is that more inclusive participation in subnational governance and rural economic activities leading to improved livelihoods will result in greater propensity among local leaders and community members to reduce tensions, in greater social cohesion in communities where DDR beneficiaries settle and sustain peace at the local level.

With the overall objective “to contribute towards consolidation of peace at subnational levels in Mozambique”, DELPAZ contributes to the implementation of the fourth pillar of the EU Programme, focusing on 14 selected Districts of Manica, Tete and Sofala Provinces, enhancing an inclusive local governance and improving the livelihoods of rural communities, with a special focus on women, youth and disadvantage groups.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 6.280.000.
  • Indicative allocation of funds by lot/geographical distribution:
    • Lot 1 – MANICA, Indicative allocation: EUR 3.925.000, Districts in the Province of Manica: Barue, Macossa, Tambara and Guro (82,17%), plus Gondola (17,83%)
    • Lot 2 – TETE, Indicative allocation: EUR 2.355.000, Districts in the Province of Tete: Tsangano and Moatize (70,28%), plus Doa (29,72%)
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following maximum amounts:
  • Lot 1 – MANICA: Districts in the Province of Manica: Barue, Macossa, Tambara, Guro and Gondola
    • minimum amount: EUR 3.336.250
    • maximum amount: EUR 3.925.000
  • Lot 2 – TETE: Districts in the Province of Tete: Tsangano, Moatize and Doa
    • minimum amount: EUR 2.001.750
    • maximum amount: EUR 2.355.000.

Lines of Action

The strategic approach is built along the following lines of action:

• Gender-responsive approaches, as well as social inclusion of women, youth and other marginalized groups inform the design, planning and implementation of all the activities.
• Promoting environmentally sustainable activities that contribute to adaptation to climate change and enhance the target groups’ knowledge of risks related to climate change and about how to address them.
• Increasing access to the improved small-scale local public infrastructure, especially in localities deprived of such investments due to isolation resulting from the conflict.
• Improving food security through increasing small-farmers’ capacity to produce, safely store and process agricultural and animal production to improve household consumption and nutritional status.
• Identifying and strengthening key value chains for small-farmers’ sustainable integration and enhancing production and productivity of promising marketable crops, according to the locations’ characteristics and to existing and potential marketing opportunities.
• Reducing reliance on primary agricultural production and promoting diversification in the households’ income-generating strategies, while at the same time increasing the skills of youth to become economically active.
• Strengthening existing economic linkages and formal and informal networks and partnerships and facilitating the establishment of new ones with a variety of local, national, regional and external international actors, in order to promote strategic collaborations that can enhance the target communities’ economic potential and ensure socially inclusive outcomes.

Geographic Scope

Districts for DELPAZ implementation have been selected3 within the three Provinces, agreed between the Government of Mozambique (GoM), the EU and the Implementing Partners. Application of these qualitative criteria, in consensus among stakeholders, has indicated that DELPAZ Programme will cover fourteen (14) districts: six (6) in Sofala Province, five (5) in Manica Province, and three (3) in Tete Province. As a result of this process, DELPAZ Manica and Tete Sub-Programme, implemented by AICS, will support local development activities in the following eight (8) Districts:

• 5 Districts in Manica Province: Bárue, Guro, Tambara, Macossa and Gondola;
• 3 Districts in Tete Province: Moatize, Tsangano and Doa

Target Groups

In the selected Districts, communities in conflict-affected areas suffer from lack of economic opportunities. Most people are living in poverty and also, due to weak infrastructure and long distances, access to markets and basic social services is limited. Moreover, the conflict exacerbated women’s subjection and marginalisation. In particular, it increased their insecurities, vulnerabilities and exposed them to sex traders and different forms of violence. It is therefore expected that, through a participatory and sensitive planning of economic investments and opportunities at district level, the communities, enhancing their rights, will be also more able to facilitate the reintegration of the beneficiaries of DDR. Beneficiaries of DELPAZ Manica and Tete Sub-Programmes will therefore be:

• marginalized communities;
• disadvantaged and marginalised groups, households and individuals, including DDR beneficiaries. The programme strives to ensure social targeting, in order to address the specific needs of diverse group of women and men belonging to vulnerable and marginalized groups.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicants
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person
    • be non-profit-making
    • be a non-governmental organization or public sector operator or local authority
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or in countries eligible
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
    • be able to effectively operate in Mozambique;
    • demonstrate expertise and/or experience in the following fields (preferably in a developing country): conflict mitigation and peace building, reintegration and reconciliation, decentralized governance and territorial planning, social inclusion and women’s empowerment, inclusive market systems; community resilience; community based development; climate smart solution for rural development, climate and gender-sensitive value chains in rural areas.
• 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 of the grant application form.
  • 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 coapplicant(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.

For more information, visit https://maputo.aics.gov.it/home-ita/opportunita/bandi/