Deadline: 13 August 2019

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organizations for a program entitled “Sustainable and Inclusive Local Economic Growth in the Adjacency Zone and its Surroundings”.

The overall objective of this call for proposals is to promote sustainable and inclusive local economic growth in the Adjacency Zone and its surroundings.

The specific objective is to finance the investment of projects in the adjacency zone and its vicinity oriented to socioeconomic development, in order to decrease productive models or consolidate existing ones, guaranteeing full access to basic services, from a human rights perspective with a view to gender, and in accordance with the principles stated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDGs 5 and 16.

The priority of this call for proposals is: to achieve stable and sustainable socioeconomic development of local communities in order to guarantee stability and peace in the area in the medium and long term.

Funding Information

The grants requested under this Call for Proposals will be comprised between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• Minimum amount: 1,000,000.00 EUR
• Maximum amount: EUR 1,500,000.00

Duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not be less than 24 months or more than 36 months.

Location

The projects will be executed in the Adjacency Zone between Guatemala and Belizeand their respective neighborhoods.

Eligibility Criteria

• Principal applicant
  • In order to qualify for a grant, the principal applicant must:
    • be a civil society organization or a CSO network,
    • be a local authority (municipality) and / or mancomunidades and / or networks of municipalities,
    • be a legal person,
    • not have a profit motive
    • have at least 3 years of constitution and have taken regular actions in the areas of the call for at least the 3 years prior to the time of submitting the application
    • be directly responsible, with its co-applicants and affiliated entities, for the preparation and management of the action, and not simply act as intermediary.
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union and / or in Guatemala or a Central American country and all countries mentioned in Regulation (EU) No 233/2014 of the European Parliament and Council of March 11, 2014 by the that a Financing Instrument for Development Cooperation (DCI) is established for the period 2014-2020
    • For British applicants: keep in mind that the eligibility criteria must be met during the entire duration of the grant. Unless the specific eligibility rules for each sector provide otherwise, if the UKeu withdraws from the EU during the grant period without having reached an agreement with the European Union to ensure, in particular, that British applicants are still being eligible, will stop receiving EU funding (as long as it continues, if it is possible to participate), or will be asked to leave the project under Article 12.2, clause “e”, Clause 12 of Annex II of the grant agreement.
• Co-applicants
  • The co-applicants will participate in the design and execution of the action, and the costs incurred will be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the main applicant.
  • Co-applicants must meet the eligibility criteria applicable to the principal applicant.
  •  In addition to the categories mentioned above, the following will also be eligible: local authorities and / or mancomunidades and / or networks of municipalities.
• Affiliated entities
  • The principal applicant and his / her co-applicant (s) may act with affiliated entities.
  • Only the following entities may be considered entities affiliated with the main applicant or the co-applicant (s):
    • Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (ie, the main applicant or a co-applicant), especially if the link is legal or capital.
    • This structural link mainly covers two aspects:
      • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34 / EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and other related reports of certain types of companies:
        • Thus, the entities affiliated with an applicant can be:
          • Entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiary companies or first level subsidiaries). They can also be entities controlled by an entity controlled in turn by the applicant (second level subsidiaries), and the same applies to the following levels of control.
          • Entities that directly or indirectly control the applicants (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities that control an entity that in turn controls the applicant.
          • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (associated companies).
      • Accession, that is, the applicant is legally defined as, for example, network, federation or association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate, or participates in the same entity (for example, network, federation or association) that the affiliated entities proposed.

How to Apply

In order to apply for the grants, applicants have to register themselves in PADOR, an on-line database via given website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2WJdTnv and download the guidelines.