Deadline: 11-Jul-25
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has launched a call for proposal project for the Socio-Professional Integration of Young People from Rural Areas in the Republic of Guinea
Objectives
- Contribute to the professional integration of vulnerable young people into the labor market in Guinea
- Strengthen the Guinean production, entrepreneurial and cooperative system in the fruit and vegetable sector through training and professional integration of young people, men, women and vulnerable people (people with disabilities, returning migrants, etc.), and technical, organizational, commercial and financial assistance to economic operators by rural hubs.
Funding Information
- The amount of the AICS financing is equal to Euro 1,900,000 (one million nine hundred thousand,00). The executive proposals must provide for a total amount equal to Euro 1,900,000 divided into three installments as follows:
- Euro 700,000 for the first year;
- Euro 600,000 for the second year;
- Euro 600,000 for the third year.
- The initiative will last 36 months.
Expected Results
- Precondition for the change that the Initiative wants to promote, the achievement of 3 Expected Results:
- The socio-economic inclusion of young people, women and vulnerable people (people with disabilities, returning migrants, etc.) in the local economic system (MPMIs, agricultural organizations/federations, cooperatives and other economic actors) is improved and supported through training and professional insertion paths.
- Multifunctional service centers (rural hubs) of the fruit and vegetable sector have increased their capacity to produce, harvest, process, package and preserve products.
- Professional organizations, agricultural federations, cooperatives and MPMIs, more generally, selected by the fruit and vegetable sector, strengthen their organizational functions and technical, commercial and financial support, including those of their members.
Beneficiaries
- Different categories of beneficiaries may be identified that the Proposing Entity (OSC) is required to describe in the project proposal, justifying the choice. The proposals must take into account the following direct beneficiaries:
- Young people, both men and women and vulnerable people (people with disabilities, returning migrants, etc.) who will be able to benefit from training and professional integration opportunities in the identified supply chains;
- Socio-economic actors (professional organizations, agricultural federations, cooperatives, MPMIs, youth and women’s associations, etc.) who may be supported from a technical, organizational and commercial point of view;
- Multifunctional service centers (rural hubs) who may be accompanied in the provision of their services through technical and technological support (equipment and infrastructure) and organizational and management strengthening.
Eligible Expenses
- Eligible expenses are:
- that are relevant and attributable to the activities performed. For the expense to be relevant, there must be a
- direct and specific relationship between the expense and the results expected from the Initiative;
- whose commitment date or the date of the supporting document are contained within the time limits of ordinary and conventional duration established by the Contract (except for the costs of stipulating the surety);
- that are necessary for the execution of the approved Initiative, starting from the date of admissibility of the expenses and of the activities defined in the Contract by the AICS;
- that are consistent with the normal reference parameters of the sector and the local / geographical context as communicated and highlighted by the Proposing Entity in the Executive Proposal;
- that are foreseen by the Financial Plan of the Initiative;
- that they are actually supported through bank transfers and other banking transactions (with some exceptions for payments for which self-certification is admissible, and other cash transactions for which it is objectively impossible to proceed through banking transactions, which must in any case be verifiable by the External Auditor, see Management and Reporting Manual), proven by invoices, receipts or accounting documents with equivalent probative value, for which it is possible to ascertain the total payment and the registration in the accounting records;
- that they are accounted for, or that they are entered into an accounting system of the executing body according to its own internal procedures, which have given rise to accounting records in compliance with the regulatory provisions, accounting principles and any further specific provisions in the matter according to the current legislation;
- of which it is possible to define the traceability in accordance with the current legislation and any derogations provided for therein;
- whose implementation complies with Community and national provisions, taking into account the tax, contribution and other legal obligations of Italy and the country of implementation;
- which are attributable to the activities of the Initiative;
- whose date of the supporting document and the date of payment fall within the six months necessary for the preparation of the final report (provided that they do not involve new expenses other than those necessary for the completion and finalization of activities, the expenditure commitment for which occurred by the end date of the project activities).
Eligibility Criteria
- Are registered in the List referred to in art. 26, paragraph 3 of Law 125/2014;
- Are not in debt to public administrations for certain, liquid and collectible debts, including debt situations
- deriving from provisions for the revocation of contributions for projects promoted and/or entrusted and/or humanitarian aid;
- Are not in a state of bankruptcy, are not subject to insolvency or liquidation procedures, or in which there is an agreement with creditors, or in which the activities are suspended, or any other similar situation provided for by national law;
- Are in compliance with the rules that govern the right to work of people with disabilities according to Italian legislation (Law 12 March 1999, no. 68 and subsequent amendments);
- Are in compliance with the anti-mafia documentation, pursuant to Article 85 of Legislative Decree no. 159/2011 and subsequent amendments and present the documentation necessary to obtain the anti-mafia certificate issued by the competent Italian authorities;
- Are in compliance with the payment of taxes or social security and welfare contributions provided for by the national legislation in force or by the legislation in force in the country in which the contract is performed;
- Against whom a final sentence or a final administrative decision has not been pronounced for serious violations of the legislation or ethical standards specific to the professional sector to which the Entity belongs, or for illicit conduct with bad faith or gross negligence that has affected the professional credibility of the Entity, including, in particular, the following hypotheses:
- for having presented false declaration or false documentation in the execution of a contract or regarding eligibility criteria and conditions relevant to participation in selection procedures;
- for having entered into agreements aimed at distorting competition;
- for having infringed intellectual property rights;
- for having attempted to influence the decision-making process of the Contracting Authority during a selection procedure;
- for having attempted to obtain confidential information potentially leading to undue advantages during a selection procedure.
- Against whom a final judgment has not been pronounced for one of the following offences:
- fraud, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities,
- as referred to in the Council Act of 26 July 1995;
- corruption, within the meaning of Article 3 of the Convention on combating corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union, as referred to in the Council Act of 26 May 1997, and
- in Article 2, paragraph 1, of Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA, as well as pursuant to the Italian legislation in force, or the legislation in force in the country in which the Entity has its registered office or in the country in which the contract is performed;
- participation in a criminal organisation, pursuant to art. 2, of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA;
- money laundering or terrorist financing, pursuant to art. 1 of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- offences related to terrorism or terrorist activities, pursuant to, respectively, arts. 1 and 3 of Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA, or incitement, or aiding, abetting, or attempting to commit the
- aforesaid offences, pursuant to art. 4 of the aforementioned Framework Decision;
- child labor or other forms of human trafficking pursuant to Article 2 of Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.
- Are not in breach of obligations under contracts financed by the European Union or by Italian public administrations, which have led to the early termination of the contract or to the application of penalties or the award of damages, or which have emerged during checks, audits or inspections by officials authorised by the European Union, OLAF or the Court of Auditors or by Italian public administrations;
- Against whom no final judgment or final administrative decision has been issued for irregularities pursuant to art. 1, paragraph 2, of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/951;
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