EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

The global objective of this call for proposals is:

To strengthen civil society organisations' and local authorities' contribution to governance and development processes.

For LOT 1 - CSOs:

1. To support and strengthen CSOs' capacity to perform their roles as development actors, services providers and agents in policy processes, in coordination with the country's relevant stakeholders, in the areas of:
   • support to children, women, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups;
   • gender equality;
   • education;
   • health;
   • food security and sustainable natural resources management;
   • water and sanitation;
   • culture, media and information
   • cultural and natural heritage;
   • interfaith dialogue and prevention of radicalisation;
   • youth empowerment;
   • economic empowerment for disadvantaged groups and populations segments out of mainstream services;
   • decent work and rights at work;
   • migration and fight to trafficking and smuggling.

1. To foster CSOs' cooperation with similar entities (eg with other Eritrean, African and European CSOs) and with LAs in-country and abroad and/or to strengthen CSOs' cooperation with international and regional intergovernmental organisations.

For LOT 2 – LAs

1. To support LAas' capacity to perform their roles as development actors, service and welfare providers, and promoters of inclusive and sustainable growth at the local level (according to their institutional mandate) in the areas of:
   • support to children, women, people with disability and other vulnerable groups;
   • gender equality;
   • education;
   • health;
   • food security and sustainable natural resources management;
   • water and sanitation;
   • culture, media and information;
   • cultural and natural heritage;
   • interfaith dialogue and prevention of radicalisations;
   • youth empowerment;
   • economic empowerment for disadvantaged groups and populations segments out of mainstream services;
   • decent work and rights at work;
   • migration and fight to trafficking and smuggling.

1. To foster LAs' cooperation with similar entities (eg with other Eritrean, African and European LAs) and with CSOs in-country and abroad and/or to strengthen LAs' cooperation with international and regional intergovernmental organisations.

Deadline for submission of  concept notes

30 May 2016