Deadline: 3 June 2015
The European Union represented by the delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives is currently seeking proposals from non-profit organisations for the Developmental Housing Reconstruction Support Programme for Internally Displaced People in Sri Lanka. The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to ensure the link between relief, rehabilitation and development in crises involving uprooted people.
The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is that: “returnees and host communities afford human and financial investments for sustaining livelihoods through developmental permanent housing”.
The overall indicative amount made available under this Programme is EUR 14 million.
Types of Actions
The actions should involve:
- Facilitated access to developmental permanent housing for the most vulnerable:
- At least 11 000 direct beneficiaries (benefiting from housing) and 2 000 indirect (benefiting from flanking measures but not necessarily housing);
- At least 2 650 ‘full-house equivalents’ (FHEs) where repairs and smaller incremental houses count as fractions of FHEs;
- 30 000 people benefiting from reduced inflation of local construction costs (through improvements in the local supply chain);
- Improved tenure security of beneficiaries:
- bout 2 000 families (over 8 000 people);
- Improved access to reliable local income opportunities:
- Durable entrepreneurship initiatives in the local construction supply chain;
- 300 000 man days of labour provided by trained beneficiaries during the programme;
- 300 construction workers trained and certified in appropriate technologies;
- Improved community access to social infrastructure:
- 20 villages and 6 000 beneficiaries.
Priority Issues
- IDPs and returnees are generally vulnerable
- Lack of access to local basic social infrastructure
- Lack of access to reliable income opportunities
- Lack of a conducive community environment
- In the process of building a house, IDPs or returnees can become susceptible to or aggravate situations of unsustainable indebtedness
Size of grants: EUR 14 million to EUR 14 million
Duration
The initial planned duration of an action must not be lower than 30 months nor exceed 36 months.
Location
Actions must take place in war affected areas of Sri Lanka and mainly in the Northern Districts, mostly in Killinnochchi and Mullaitivu but Jaffna, Vavunya, Tricomali and Mannar are also eligible.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- be non-profit-making and
- be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 43 of the Rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation and
- be established in a country eligible under the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) (Regulation (EU) No 233/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council). This obligation does not apply to international organisations and
- 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 and
- be mandated or statutorily committed to implement development cooperation actions and
- have prior experience in relevant large owner-driven housing reconstruction programmes.
- The applicant may act individually or with co-applicant(s) who must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the applicant himself.
- The applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies) having a structural link with the applicants. Eligible entities may thus include-
- Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the beneficiary (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the beneficiary (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
- Entities directly or indirectly controlling the beneficiary (parent companies).
- Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the beneficiary (sister companies).
- Entities legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the beneficiary participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.
- The action must relate to the following:
- Participatory reconstruction
- Home Owner Driven (HOD) reconstruction or Owner Driven Reconstruction (ODR)
- Building Back Better
- People’s Processes
- Incremental housing
- Rural development
- Livelihood development
- Flanking measures
- Community Action Planning
- Appropriate technologies
- Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
- Low-cost housing finance
- Financial literacy training
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Gender
- Micro-enterprise development
How to Apply?
- Applicants must submit all documents together (Concept Note and Full Application Form). In the first instance, only the Concept Notes will be evaluated. Thereafter, for the applicants who have been pre-selected, the full proposal will be evaluated.
- Applications must be submitted in one original and three copies in A4 size, each bound. The complete application form (Part A: concept note and Part B: full application form), budget and logical framework must also be supplied in electronic format (CD-ROM) in a separate and single file. The electronic file must contain exactly the same application as the paper version enclosed.
- The Checklist and the Declaration by the applicant must be stapled separately and enclosed in the envelope which must bear the reference number and the title of the Call for Proposals, together with the full name and address of the applicant, and the words ‘Not to be opened before the opening session’
- Applications must be send via email or hand delivery.
Note: Applications sent by any other means (e.g. by fax or by e-mail) or delivered to other addresses will be rejected.
For more information, please visit EU- Sri Lanka.
