EUROPEAID/137174/DD/ACT/BA: IPA - SUPPORT TO CAPACITY BUILDING OF CSO IN ELECTIONS' OBSERVATION

Background                                                                                Maximum amount: 1 500 000 EUR

The global objective of this Call for Proposals is: to enhance the role and capacity of BiH civil society to effectively support further democratic consolidation by contributing to the free and fair election process in BiH. Overall, these efforts are aimed at anchoring democratic values and structures and fostering citizens’ participation and democratic developments.

The specific objectives of this Call for Proposals are:

   - Reinforcing the capacity of local civil society to coordinate efforts to monitor and ensure a proper follow-up to the election process.
     Contribute to improvements in the electoral process in BiH through: long-term and large scale observation of the entire electoral process
     on the whole territory of the country; timely and objectively informing the public and all stakeholders on the findings from the
     observation; developing and implementing a tool kit for preventing or addressing electoral irregularities including technical and legal
     remedies; discouraging or preventing fraud through massive presence at polling stations and counting centres throughout BiH; developing
     recommendations to the electoral administration and relevant BiH authorities for technical and legal improvements in the processes; a
     long-term advocacy campaign and facilitation efforts in support of the above mentioned recommendations.
   - Develop and promote measures for enhancing political party integrity in campaigning.
   - Propose administrative and legal accountability measures through which election administrative management and other relevant
     institutions concerned with electoral process account for their performance.
   - Enhance watchdog functions of civil society organizations by enhancing their media-monitoring capacity.
   - Raise professional standards and inform the public about shortcomings in the area of broadcast, print and online media, by conducting
     competent and grounded assessment of the quality of media reporting and thus facilitate informed decision making as well as advocating
     for democratic reforms, structural changes and more pluralistic and balanced media coverage of politics.
   - Raise public awareness about: electoral irregularities and fraud techniques commonly used in the country; the importance of non-partisan
     election observation; importance of citizens’ participation; the need for improving the electoral framework – main weak points of the
     current process and proposed solutions.


Eligibility

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

   - be a legal person and
   - be non-profit-making and
   - be non-governmental civil society organisations, and
   - be established in Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 and
   - be a network of CSOs, with primary mission on elections’ observations matters. Minimum 5 CSO members of the network.


Budget

The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 1.5 million EUR.


Size of grants

   - minimum amount: EUR 1,000,000
   - maximum amount: EUR 1,500,000


Deadline : 17 July 2015

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