Open Call for BREACH: Boosting Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Somalia

• Lead applicant(s)

  • 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, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation and

    • EU Member States

    • IPA III beneficiaries (listed in the Annex I of IPA III Instrument

    • European Economic Area

  • Developing countries and territories, (included in the OECD-DAC list of ODA recipients ), which are not members of the G20 group :

    • Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

    • Other Low Income Countries

    • Lower Middle Income Countries and Territories

    • Upper Middle Income Countries and Territories

  • Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs)

  • Member States of the OECD are also eligible when contracts are exclusively implemented in a Least Developed Country or in a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) .

  • Developing countries, as included in the list of ODA recipients, which are members of the G20 group and (ii) any other countries and territories (ie. all countries of the world) when the relevant procedure takes place in the context of an action financed by the Union under this Regulation in which they participate;

  • The entities of countries under point g) (i) and (ii) can participate in procedures both where the country participates in the action as a donor co-financing and where the country itself is participating as a beneficiary of the action.

  • Any countries for which reciprocal access to external assistance is established by the Commission.

  • Currently there are no such countries.

  • Neighbourhood partner countries

  • the Russian Federation when the relevant procedure takes place in the context of the programmes referred to in Annex I of NDICI- Global Europe in which it participates;

  • where an agreement on widening the market for procurement of goods or services to which the Union is party applies, the procurement procedures for contracts financed by the budget shall also be open to natural and legal persons established in a third country other than those specified in the basic instruments governing the cooperation sector concerned, under the conditions laid down in that agreement.

• Co-applicant(s)

  • Co-applicants are obligatory; the minimum recommended number of co-applicants to be involved in the action is one. A minimum of one Somali local co-applicant is required. Moreover, involving minorities’ organizations is strongly recommended/encouraged.

  • Involvement of co-applicants who – between them – have relevant sector and geographical experience would be appropriate. Particular attention should be put on the value added of expertise provided by the main applicant and all of the co-applicants presenting the proposal.

  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.

  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself/herself.

  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate.

  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).

• Affiliated Entities

• Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:

• Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:

  • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;

  • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;

  • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).

• Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association,…) as the proposed affiliated entities.

Post Date: 25-Nov-2022