Background Minimum amount: 500 000 EUR
Maximum amount: 1 000 000 EUR
Civil society actors play an important role in the development, implementation and monitoring of national reforms in general and in the success of development cooperation policies and programmes supporting them. The Joint Communication on “A new response to a changing Neighbourhood” of May 2011, the culmination of a comprehensive review of the European Neighbourhood Policy launched in 2010, outlined a new approach towards EU’s neighbours to the East and South, based on mutual accountability and a shared commitment to respecting universal values, international human rights standards, democracy and the rule of law. Acknowledging civil society’s role to contribute to policy-making and hold governments to account, the Communication committed to supporting a greater role for civil society actors through a partnership with societies, helping civil society actors develop their advocacy capacity, the ability to monitor reform and their role in implementing, monitoring and evaluating EU programmes. The Communication also proposed the establishment of a Civil Society Facility to provide funding for civil society actors.
Objectives
The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to support active and inclusive civil society organisations which contribute to the social and economic development of partner countries. The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations from the European Neighbourhood partner countries allowing them to improve their engagement in policymaking processes and policy dialogue, their role as watchdog and monitoring players, and their representativeness and links with their constituencies.
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- be non-profit-making and
- be civil society organisations, such as non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent foundations, community-based
organisations and private-sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks thereof at local, national, regional and
international level
- be established in18 a Member State of the European Union or
- for Lot 1, a country from the Eastern Neighbourhood
- for Lot 2, a country from the Southern Neighbourhood
- Lot 3, a country from Maghreb region covered by the European NeighbourhoodInstrument Policy
- 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
Budget
The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 9,900,000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds. Similarly, this amount can be increased should more funds become available.Indicative allocation of funds by lot/geographical distribution:
- Lot 1 (for the Eastern Neighbourhood countries) will indicatively benefit from an amount of EUR 4,900,000.
- Lot 2 (for the Southern Neighbourhood countries) will indicatively benefit from an amount of EUR 3,500,000.
- Lot 3 (for the Maghreb countries) will indicatively benefit from an amount of EUR 1,500,000.
Size of grants
Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 500,000
- maximum amount: EUR 1,000,000
Deadline: 04 June 2014
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