The European Commission has issued a call for proposals
for for “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development
(Development Cooperation Instrument) and Neighbourhood Civil Society
Facility (European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument).
The global objective and the priorities
of the present Call for Proposals are the concrete answer to the
Structured Dialogue recommendations9 to the EU to “promote and support
regular, structured and inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogues” through funding to “empower civil society organisations (CSOs) and local authorities (LAs) (particularly their platforms and representative organizations) to participate effectively in dialogues”.
The Priorities of this Call for Proposals:
(1) Institutional capacity building:
reinforcement of internal structure and operating modalities of
membership-based13 CSO networks (i.e. platforms, unions) with
representativeness at regional14, continental and/or global level.15
Only proposals stemming from non-thematic16 CSO networks, with a
majority of members based in partner countries17 will be considered.
(2) Empowerment of CSO networks
representative at regional, continental and/or global level to
participate effectively in dialogues with international organizations18
(both with global or regional scope19) and other relevant stakeholders
(e.g. governmental authorities, private sector) and to have a
significant impact on the regional, continental and/or global
policy-making processes: actors of the initiatives should concretely
strengthen their representativeness and the capacities to gather their
constituencies’ views and to perform as strategic partners for key
policy makers.
(3) Actions led at regional, continental
and global level by relevant CSO networks, tackling problems common to
more than one region (e.g. desertification, migration, water management,
HIV/AIDS). Multi-stakeholder campaigns will be supported. Service delivery actions will not be considered.
(4) Actions led by civil society organisations promoting the reinforcement of an enabling environment for civil society organisations’ activities in Neighbourhood countries.
(5) Actions led by civil society
organisations which advance the political priorities of the Eastern
Partnership and the priorities included in the Joint Communication “
This is a restricted call for proposals and only concept notes have to be submitted initially. All applicants need to register at PADOR
before applying. The deadline to submit proposals is 1 February 2012,
16:00 Brussels date and time. For more information, visit this link.
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