Open Call to support Civil Society and Environmental Rights in Zambia

Deadline: 8-Jun-23

The European Commission (EC) is currently accepting proposals to enhance Civil Society Organisations’ contribution to human rights and human development in Zambia.

Objectives (Lots) and Priorities

The priorities of this call are as follows:

• Lot 1: “To strengthen Zambia’s Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) engagement as actors of good governance and development”
  • Strengthened internal management systems of CSOs;
  • Strengthened capacities of CSOs to engage in policy dialogue, implementation and monitoring of EU and national development plans and programmes;
  • Improved coordination and networking capacities of CSOs.
  • Proposals must address all three priorities.
• Lot 2: “To strengthen the respect of environmental rights in Zambia”
  • Empower individuals, local communities and organisations to exercise their environmental rights and protect right holders;
  • Enhance oversight by local communities and CSOs in monitoring, preventing and responding to environmental rights violation and abuses;
  • Enhance space for dialogue between CSOs and environmental actors in Zambia.
  • Proposals must address all three priorities.
• Lot 3: “To create a space for the meaningful involvement of young people in development cooperation in Zambia, through youth advisory structure(s)”.
  • Create, establish and run a youth advisory structure, i.e. a “youth sounding board”.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 5 510 000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Indicative allocation of funds by lot:
  • Lot 1: EUR 3 800 000
  • Lot 2: EUR 1 210 000
  • Lot 3: EUR 500 000
• Size of grants
  • Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
    • Lot 1                     
      • Minimum amount: EUR 1 900 000
      • Maximum amount: EUR 3 800 000
    • Lot 2                     
      • Minimum amount: EUR 1 210 000
      • Maximum amount: EUR 1 210 000
    • Lot 3                     
      • Minimum amount: EUR 250 000
      • Maximum amount: EUR 500 000

Duration

• Lot 1 – The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 36 months nor exceed 48 months.
• Lot 2 – The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 36 months.
• Lot 3 – The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 36 months.

Location: Lots 1, 2 & 3 – Actions must take place in Zambia. In duly justified cases, certain activities may take place outside Zambia.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s)
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • Lot 1, Lot 2 and Lot 3
      • be a legal person and;
      • be non-profit-making and;
      • be a specific type of organisation such as: a civil society organisation (CSO)
      • be established in   either; i) a Member State of the European Union or; ii) in Zambia; or iii) in another country which is an eligible under the NDICI – Global Europe, 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.
• 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 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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