Deadline: 4-Jan-21
The Southern African Community (SADC) Secretariat has announced a call for applications for Enhanced Cooperation and Dialogue for Regional Integration: The SADC Dialogue Facility (SDF) – support to evidence-based and results-oriented policy dialogue.
The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to the implementation of the SADC regional integration agenda through supporting evidence-based and results-oriented policy dialogue.
The specific objective of this call for proposals is Undertaking policy research to inform policy dialogues and strengthen evidence-based resultoriented discussions within the thematic areas of relevance to SADC.
The overarching objective of the programme is to provide data and analysis that can assist SADC in its efforts to advance regional co-operation and integration in Southern Africa. Policy Research would strongly contribute to support the integration process and also help uncover and alleviate negative social and economic effects of the integration process.
Therefore, the overarching objective of this call for proposals is to provide data and analysis that can assist SADC in its efforts to advance regional co-operation and integration in Southern Africa.
Policy research will be undertaken within the following thematic areas of relevance to SADC:
- Industrialisation and Value Addition;
- Digital Economy;
- Climate Change.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is USD 420,000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
- Each pilot project/action will be between USD 60.000 and USD 80.000. This amount will depend on the nature and scale of the proposal.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicant(s)
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person; and
- be non-profit-making; and
- be established in a one or more than one SADC Member State; and/or
- be established in a) an ACP State; b) a Member State of the European Union; c) beneficiaries of the Instrument for pre-accession assistance; d) a Member State of the European Economic Area; e) Overseas Countries and Territories; f) developing countries and territories, as included in the OECD-DAC list of ODA Recipients, which are not members of the G20 group, without prejudice to the status of the Republic of South Africa, as governed by Protocol 3 of the Partnership Agreement; and be a legal person with experience in undertaking research and innovation activities in the SADC region; and
- be a legal person with experience in undertaking research and innovation activities in the SADC region; and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action.
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/herself.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
Affiliated entity(ies)
- 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).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- 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.
- Control on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
For more information, visit https://www.sadc.int/opportunities/procurement/open-procurement-opportunities/enhanced-cooperation-and-dialogue-regional-integration/