Deadline: 21 January 2020

The European Union (EU) is seeking proposals to Strengthen social cohesion in areas at risk of violent extremism.

Objectives

• Promote the economic and social rights of young people through access to basic services (water, health, education, vocational training, mobility, financial services, jobs etc.) by strengthening capacities of local actors including associations and local authorities.
• Strengthen active participation in the social, economic, political, civil and cultural life of women and their specific organizations.
• Foster multi-stakeholder dialogue (intergenerational, inter and intra-religious, inter-ethnic, armed forces / police / communes in the Savannah / population area, etc.) in order to promote peace, stability and living together.

Funding Information

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must be between following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 2,000,000
• maximum amount: EUR 2,500,000

Eligibility Criteria

Lead Applicant

To qualify for a grant, the lead applicant must:

• be a legal person and
• have not profit and
• be established in a Member State of the European Union or in Togo
  • For British applicants: Please note that the eligibility criteria must be respected throughout the duration of the grant. Unless otherwise specified by sectoral eligibility rules , in case of withdrawal from the United Kingdom of the European Union during the grant period in the absence an agreement with the EU guaranteeing, inter alia, that UK applicants continue to be eligible, applicants will no longer receive funding from the EU.
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicants and the affiliated entity or entities and not act as an intermediary.

Co-applicants

• The applicant must act with at least one (1) co-applicant. If the applicant is of a nationality other than Togolese, at least one of its co-applicants must be of Togolese nationality. In addition, at least one of the co-applicants must be an association targeting women.
• The co-applicants participate in the development and implementation of the action, and the costs they are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant. Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those applying to lead applicant himself.

Affiliated Entities

• The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
• Only the following entities may be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and / or to the co-applicant (s):
  • Only those entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
    • control, within the meaning of Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of enterprises:
      • Entities affiliated with an applicant may therefore be:
        • entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or subsidiaries of first rank) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second level affiliates), and this is valid for other levels of control;
        • entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Of the similarly, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • controlled entities, directly or indirectly, at the same level as the applicant (sister companies).
    • membership, ie the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, a federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, federation or association) that the proposed affiliated entity.

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