Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development: Cooperation, synergies and structured dialogue in the area of development between civil society platforms, their organisations and EU institutions.
EC has issued a restricted call for proposals for supporting the actions aimed at achieving more efficient cooperation, foster synergies and facilitating a structured dialogue in the area of development between civil society networks and local authorities associations from the EU and acceding countries, within their organisations and with EU institutions.
Priorities
In order to reach the objectives priority will be given to actions which contribute:
(1) to enhanced coordination and dialogue between European Non-State Actors’ representative platforms and European institutions;
And, where required,
(2) to strengthening Non-State Actors’ representative platforms organised at European level in their capacities to gather their constituencies’ views and to perform as a strategic Partner for EU institutions.
Financial Allocation
The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 3.174.500, to be financed by budget line 21 03 01 “Non-State Actors in development”.
Location
Actions must have EU coverage. If duly justified by the nature of the action, certain activities may take place in other countries and in particular in partner countries16, provided that these activities constitute only a minor part of the Action and they contribute directly to the objectives of the present call for proposals.
Note. This is a restricted Call for Proposals. In the first instance, only Concept Notes must be submitted for evaluation. Thereafter, applicants whose Concept Notes have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a Full Application Form. Relevance constitutes the major criterion in pre-selection.
Deadline for submitting the proposals is September 15, 2011
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