Deadline- 17 June 2013
The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) is accepting proposals for Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in Uganda. The goal of this program is to strengthen the role of civil society in promoting human rights and democratic reform, in facilitating the peaceful conciliation of group interests and in consolidating political participation and representation.
The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is €900,000. The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower 24 months nor exceed 36 months.
Objectives-
- Protection and promotion of women’s and girls’ rights and of gender equality.
- Build confidence and enhance the reliability and transparency of the electoral processes.
Focus areas-
- Protection and promotion of women’s and girls’ rights and of gender equality
- Build confidence and enhance the reliability and transparency of the electoral processes.
- Non-exhaustive list of possible activities for this objective
Eligibility-
- be legal persons
- be non profit making
- belong to one of the following categories (See Art. 10 of the EIDHR Regulation)3:
- civil society organizations, including non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent political foundations, community based organisations, and private sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations, and networks thereof at local, national, regional and international level;
- public sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks at local, national, regional, and international level;
- national, regional and international parliamentary bodies, when this is necessary to achieve the objectives of this instrument and unless the proposed measure can be financed under a related Community external assistance instrument;
- international and regional inter-governmental organisations4; natural persons when this is necessary to achieve the objectives of the EIDHR Regulation.
- be established in Uganda or5in a Member State of the European Union or in an accession country as recognized by the European Union or in a Member State of the European Economic Area . 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) affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
- have professional competencies, qualifications and concrete experience required to successfully complete the proposed action.
- The potential applicant may not participate
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