STRIVE Global Hedayah Call for Proposals Support of Civil Society Initiatives to Prevent/Counter Violent Extremism in Central Asia, Western Balkans and MENA regions Central Asia(Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) and MENA (Jordan) regions 1
Restricted Call for Proposals Reference: Hedayah/STRIVE/2018/R2/A2/02 Deadline for submission of Concept Note 30 August 2018 11:59 pm Abu Dhabi Time
Legal Basis and Policy documents Ø REGULATION (EU) No 230/214 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 March 2014 establishing an instrument contributing to stability and peace. Ø REGULATION (EU) 2017/2306 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 12 December 2017 amendingregulation (EU) No 230/2014 establishing an instrument contributing to stability and peace. Ø The IcSP Strategy Paper 2014-2020
Thematic qeducations and Countering Violent Extremism qyouth, civic engagement and leadership qsociety/community resilience to radicalization and violent extremism ü See p. 13 in the guidelines for more details.
Attention! 1. The proposed actions should be designed to produce specific, measurable results in response to identified problems. Proposals must be based on concrete, recent, and verifiable information that can clearly identify specific problems and the related constraints.
Attention! 2. Projects should indicate clear defined objectives, intervention methodology, and coherent set of activities, target groups and tangible outcomes, within a limited timeframe. Activities should be designed to meet the specific needs of the target groups identified by the project. The identification of the target group (direct and indirect beneficiaries) and a needs assessment must be done before drafting the proposal.
Attention! 3. The logframe matrix must present a clear casual-effect sequence of inputs, activities, outputs and outcomes. All of them must lead to the impact that is a change in the social conditions of the beneficiaries. Theory of Change INPUTS ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS OUTCOMES IMPACT There must be consistency in the activities, outcomes (or objectives) and impact (or overall objective) between the description of the action, the action plan, the logframe and the budget. The distinction between outputs (i.e. tangible results such as specific modules developed, peace summer schools organized ) and outcomes (i.e. change in behaviour such as the quality of teaching civic education in the target schools is improved ) must be clear. The indicators must be measurable and it should be considered that the indicators referring to the outputs (e.g. number of training sessions conducted/ number of participants in a training) are different from the ones referring to the outcomes (e.g. improvement in the knowledge of participants given by the difference between a pre- and post-test).
Budget TOTAL: EURO 680,000 Lot 1. Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). EURO 280,000 Lot 2. Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). EURO 300,000 Lot 3. MENA (Jordan). EURO 100,000 Size of Grants ü minimum amount: EUR 40,000 ü maximum amount: EUR 80,000
Percentages of total eligible costs of the action ü Minimum percentage: 50 % of the total eligible costs of the action ü Maximum percentage: 90% of the total eligible costs of the action
Actors vlead applicant: submits the application, signs the contract, and is directly responsible for the operational and financial management vco-applicant (s): participate in designing and implementing the action, reports to the lead applicant vaffiliated entity(ies): participate in designing and implementing the action reports to the lead applicant and co-applicant (s)
Eligibility of applicants (1) Lead applicant must: ü Be a legal person established in any of the target countries ü Be non-profit-making ü Be a civil society organisation, including nongovernmental non-profit organisations and interdependent political foundations, community based organisations, private sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks at local, national, regional and international level with headquarters in any of the target countries
Eligibility of applicants (2) Lead applicant must: ü 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
Co-applicant (s) must: Eligibility of applicants (3) ü Satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant And ü Costs the co-applicant (s) incur cannot exceed 50% of the total eligible costs of the action
Eligibility of applicants (4) Affiliated entity (ies) must: ü Have a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant/s), in particular a legal or capital link
Eligible actions ü The duration of an action may not be lower than 6 months nor exceed 12 months ü Must take place in any of the target countries ü Appropriate activities and thematic: education and countering violent extremism/youth civic engagement and leadership/society, community resilience to radicalization and violent extremism (read from p. 13 in the guidelines for more details)
Eligibility of costs Eligible direct costs: ü Incurred during the action ü Indicated in the budget ü Necessary ü Verifiable and Identifiable ü Reasonable and Justified
Eligibility of costs Eligible indirect costs: ü Overheads ü Not included in the eligible direct costs ü Total must not exceed 7 % of the estimated total eligible direct costs
How to apply 1. First step: Fill and submit the concept note, check list and declaration by the lead applicant (Part A, section 2 and 3 of the grant application form) to the email address: strive.cveprojects@hedayah.ae Deadline: 30 August 2018, 11:59 pm Abu Dhabi time. 2. Second step: If the concept note is pre- selected, lead applicants will be invited to submit a full application (Part B of the grant application form)
Some tips to fill the concept note vread the instructions with attention vrespect the number of pages to be filled in each section vbe consistent, concise and brief in writing
Questions? 21 days before deadline (10 August, 2018) email to: strive.cveprojects@hedayah.ae Answers! 11 days before deadline (19 August, 2018) On Hedayah website: www.hedayahcenter.org
Please, do not hesitate to contact us for further clarification strive.cveprojects@hedayah.ae Thank you!