Applications Invited for Enhancing Civil Society Organisations’ Capacities in Response to COVID-19

About the Organization:

The Commission is organized into departments called 'Directorates-General' (DG), which are responsible for different policy areas. DGs develop, implement and manage EU policies, legislation and funding programs. There are also other services responsible for specific administrative matters. The executive agencies manage the programs put in place by the Commission.

About the Program:

The thematic programme “Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities 2014-2020”, adopted in 2014, aims at supporting CSOs and LAs' contributions towards reinforced governance, accountability and inclusive policy-making in EU partner countries. The global objective of this call for proposals is to support Indian CSOs efforts in mitigating the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic amongst the most vulnerable population in India. The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is to strengthen the capacity and engagement of CSOs to mitigate and build resilience of the most vulnerable segments of society to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, through ensuring access to public entitlements, social protection, promotion of skills and employment and advocating public policies. 

Grant Amount: EUR 2,000,000.00

Eligibility Criteria:

• In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
• Be a legal person and
• Be non-profit-making and
• Be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation/civil society organisations (registered as non-profit legal entities)  and
• Be established in  India or a Member State of the European Union (EU)  or in a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA)  and in case of Indian entities, all civil society organisations, institutions and/or associations of local authorities - whether lead applicant or co-applicant(s) - must comply with respective national legislation/s applicable to non-profit organisations, including registration and reporting requirements. Indian entities must have a valid FCRA registration at the time of application as well as when contracting and when the project proposal includes one or multiple co-applicant(s) based inside and outside India, in case the lead applicant is an organisation registered in India, it will not be possible to have a European or non-local co-applicant, except if the costs of this entity can be covered by their own co-funding (no transfer of funds required).
• International organisations  are NOT eligible, nor can act as co-applicant(s) under this call for proposals.

How to Apply:

Full application forms together with the budget, the logical framework and the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted online via PROSPECT https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prospect following the instructions given in the users’ manual.

Upon submission of the full application online, the lead applicants will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt in their PROSPECT profile.

Please note that incomplete applications may be rejected. Lead applicants are advised to verify that their application is complete using the checklist (Annex A.2, Instructions).

Deadline: 01/09/2020 at 12:00 (Brussels date and time).

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