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Call for proposals

“Preventing Sexual and Gender Based Violence against Women and Girls in Developing Countries” - EuropeAid/154792/DH/ACT/Multi

Objective and description

This is a restricted call for proposals. In the first instance, only concept notes must be submitted for evaluation. Thereafter, lead applicants who have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a full application.

The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment in developing countries. The specific objective of this call for proposals is to reinforce the technical and financial capacity of local civil society organisations (CSOs) to foster rights of women and girls living in developing countries with high prevalence of violence against women and countries affected by forgotten crisis.

Priorities of the Call for Proposals:

Actions shall respond to the following priorities:

1. Ending violence against women and girls: working towards the elimination of all forms of sexual or gender-based violence (SGBV) through various approaches that empower women and girls to end, avoid and escape from violence and violent situations (e.g. increased social, political and economic empowerment) and/or

2. Increasing access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for youth, women and men: including to non-discriminatory, age-appropriate and comprehensive sexuality education, evidence-based information, family planning and modern contraception, relevant quality care and services as allowed by national law.

Note that financial support to third parties is compulsory in this call. At least 65% of the grant total amount will be further distributed to local civil society organisations working in the target countries of this call (annex P of Guidelines), in order to implement activities related to one or two of the priorities.

Eligible activities

Actions must take place in one or more developing countries listed in Annex N. Nevertheless, punctual activities (such as exchange visits, study trips) may, if duly justified in the description of the action, take place in EU countries or other countries when they are directly related to situations arising in countries targeted by the action. The reasons will be examined during the evaluation process.

Types of activity

The indicative and non-exhaustive list of activities which may be financed under this call:

For lead applicants and co-applicants:

· Transfer of know-how and experience in relation to the objectives of the call by providing training and capacity building, peer assistance and tutoring of local CSOs in relation to different aspects of girl's and women's empowerment (gender based violence and SRHR as themes of this call), for instance on:

- designing quality projects and writing project proposals/grant application;

- working with different stakeholders, including boys and men, religious- and opinion leaders, to influence social norms and stereotypes etc.;

- meeting needs of different target groups and final beneficiaries;

- operational and financial management of grants;

- monitoring, use of research methods, collection of evidence;

· Networking, exchange of best practices and experience and related policy advocacy.

· Monitoring, evaluation, audit and oversight of grant scheme.

Eligible applicants

Lead applicant

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:

· be a legal person and

· be non-profit-making and

· be a civil society organisation, including non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent political foundations, community-based organisations and private-sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks thereof at local, national, regional and international level, and

· be established in a Member State of the European Union or in a developing country as listed in Annex N of the guidelines 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.

Note that the Lead applicant needs to have 5 years of solid demonstrated experience of working in gender equality and women's empowerment and/or sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

International public-sector organisations set up by international agreements, specialised agencies set up by such organisations and other organisations assimilated to such international are NOT eligible under this call for proposals. United Nations agencies are NOT eligible under this call for proposals.

The lead applicant must act with at least one co-applicant.

To be eligible, an action must include at least one local organisation, as lead applicant or co-applicant. A "local organisation" must be understood as "established" in the country or one of the countries outside EU where the action is taking place. An organisation is considered "local" when its charter demonstrates that the organisation has been established by an instrument governed by the national law of the country concerned (only for entities with legal personality) and that its head office is located in that country.

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. In addition to the categories referred above, the following are however also eligible:

· Public sector operator or local authority established in a developing country as listed in Annex N of the guidelines.

· Co-applicants must sign the mandate in Annex A.2., section 4.

· If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the Coordinator).

Budget and duration

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 32,000,000.

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

· minimum amount: EUR 5,000,000

· maximum amount: EUR 6,000,000

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:

· Minimum percentage: 50% of the total eligible costs of the action.

· Maximum percentage: 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.

The requested EU contribution may cover the entire eligible costs of the action if this is deemed essential to carry it out. Note that the lead applicant can either ask for a maximum percentage of 90% or for 100% (under the conditions described above), but not for a percentage between 90 and 100%. If a full financing is requested, the lead applicant must justify it in Annex A.2, section 2.1. The validity of the justification provided will be examined during the evaluation procedure. The absence of any justification will lead to the rejection of the application.

The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 36 months nor exceed 60 months.

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadline of this call is 25 October 2017 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time).

The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant (Annex A.1 section 2) must be submitted online via PROSPECT

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prospect following the instructions given in the PROSPECT user manual.

It is strongly recommended to register in PADOR well in advance and not to wait until the last minute before the deadline to submit your application in PROSPECT. PADOR is an on-line database in which organisations register and update information concerning their entity. Organisations registered in PADOR get a unique ID (EuropeAid ID) which they must mention in their application. PADOR is accessible via the website: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/pador_en

Further information

Please find attached the call documents.

More information: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=1503476927544&do=publi.detPUB&nbPubliList=15&debpub=15/08/2017&aoref=154792&page=2&searchtype=AS&orderby=upd&orderbyad=Desc&userlanguage=en

Kind regards,

Rosemary

Rosemary STREVINIOTI

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