Raising public awareness of development issues and promoting development education in the European Union

30/04/2010

The overarching objectives of this call for proposals are to support actions, presented by Non-State Actors, aiming at raising public awareness of development issues and promote education for development in the European Union (EU) and acceding countries5 to anchor development policy in European societies, to mobilise greater public support for action against poverty and fairer relations between developed and developing countries, and to change attitudes to the issues and difficulties the developing countries and their peoples are facing.
In order to maximise the impact and effectiveness of this programme, priority will be given to actions covering one or more of the following issues:
· public support for the MDG agenda, with particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa;
· consistency of development policy, with a particular focus on areas of public interest where common development goals are important such as: migration, trade (including fair trade), security, human rights, social dimension of globalisation and decent work, environment, and HIV/AIDS;
· media and development.

In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
· be legal persons and
· be non profit making and
· be nationals of a member state of the European Union and
· be Non-State Actors (NSA)8, constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the country concerned. NSA must have been registered for at least three years at the time of the submission of an application (as far as organisations from EU 12 are concerned, this legal existence requirement can be reduced to two years), and
· be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with their partners, not acting as an intermediary.

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 25.000.000, to be financed by budget line 21 03.01 "Non state actors in development".
A portion of 20% of the financial envelope will be allocated preferably to development education and awareness-raising actions in the member states which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 (EU 12) proposed by organisations originating from these countries.
Where the financial allocation indicated above cannot be used due to insufficient quality or number of proposals received, the European Commission reserves the right to reallocate the remaining funds to other components of the thematic programme.

Questions concerning this Call for proposals (except those related to registration in PADOR) may be sent by email no later than 21 days before the deadline for the submission of Concept Notes to the below address,
indicating clearly the reference of the Call for proposals: E-mail address: EuropeAid-GlobalCalls@ec.europa.eu/Replies [1] will be given no later than 11 days before the deadline for the submission of Concept Notes. The European Commission has no obligation to provide further clarifications after this date. After the deadline for submission of Concept Notes, the above-mentioned e-mail address can only be used by the European Commission to initiate correspondence regarding any requests for clarification that may be required.

Alle relevante documenten en informatie van deze call zijn beschikbaar op: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=1246626693376&do=publi.welcome [2] - Klik 'Search by Reference', nr. 129493