Call Reference No: 2841\/02\/23<\/p>\n
Project: STRENGTHENING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN WESTERN BALKANS AND MOLDOVA (GENDER BUDGET WATCHDOG NETWORK, PHASE II)<\/strong><\/p>\n Financed by: Austrian Development Agency and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n Implementing partners: Centre for Research and Policy Making, Gender Alliance for Development Centre; Centre for Civil Society Promotion; Kosovo Women\u2019s Network; Women Action; Gender Knowledge Hub, Keystone Moldova<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Gender Budget Watchdog Network (GBWN) announces a public Call for Applications for Capacity Building and Sub-Granting in Gender Responsive Budgeting and Resilience Response by the Gender Budget Watchdog Network from\u00a0N. Macedonia, Serbia,<\/strong>\u00a0Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Moldova.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Project background<\/strong><\/p>\n Governments have yet to fully implement commitments to gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) and to institutionalize GRB throughout the budget process. Additionally, gender analysis and a gender-transformative approach to climate change in the Western Balkans (WB) and Moldova is limited. Meanwhile, while the engagement of civil society on gender and climate change, respectively, has increased, only a few crosscutting initiatives on \u00a0\u00a0gender equality and climate change have existed. CSOs and policymakers still lack knowledge, methodologies, and skills in GRB, particularly related to climate change and resilience response financing, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic when the scarcity of capacities for gender transformative resilience response was more than obvious. [1]<\/a><\/p>\n The overall objective<\/strong> of our joint Project is to improve public commitments for gender responsive climate action and increase available financing to implement gender-responsive climate action in the WB region and Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n The anticipated Project outcomes include to:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Call for applications<\/strong><\/p>\n As the advocates of social justice and equality, it is crucial that CSOs have a deep understanding of gender-responsive budgeting and how the governments should apply it to create more equitable societies. Therefore, with this call, we invite civil society organizations from the WB and Moldova to submit a project concept note<\/strong> for the following types of grants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n National Grants –<\/strong> Two (2) grants will be awarded per country, with the maximum amount of \u20ac8,000 per grant. Projects must be completed in a period of up to eighteen months from the date of the signature of the contract.<\/u><\/p>\n Regional<\/strong> Grants – Two grants will be awarded with the maximum amount of \u20ac25,000 per grant. Projects must be completed in a period of up to twenty-four months.<\/u><\/p>\n In total 16 grants (2 per country and 2 regional) will be provided under these grant schemes.<\/p>\n The concept note should relate to gender-responsive budgeting and resilience response funding, including gender analysis to inform expenditures, monitoring expenditures using gender impact analysis, or using other GRB tools<\/a>. Potential issues that projects may focus on may be, but not necessarily limited to<\/u>:<\/p>\n After selection, the representatives of each of the selected organizations will have to commit to attend three training modules on gender responsive budgeting where they will develop their knowledge regarding different GRB tools. This knowledge should then be used to develop a full project proposal with tailored assistance (mentoring guidance) from gender budgeting experts and mentors from GBWN. Two of the training modules are available online on the GBWN e-academy (Basic GRB<\/a> and Advanced GRB<\/a>), designed specifically for CSOs. The third training on \u201cMonitoring Resilience Response\u201d will be organized in-person in Montenegro from 16 to 19 May 2023. The applying organizations will need to nominate one representative to attend and complete these trainings, specifying the attendee of the Montenegro training during the application process. After attending these trainings, the organizations will be invited to submit full proposals for funding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eligibility of applicants<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Legally registered CSOs from all 7 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia[2]<\/sup><\/a>, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia can apply. This includes, preferably, but not necessarily:<\/p>\n To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant and its partners must:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Number of applications and grants per applicants <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The lead applicant may not<\/strong> submit more than 1<\/strong> application under the national call for applications.<\/p>\n However, a lead applicant for a national grant may be a partner in 1<\/strong> other application of the regional call at the same time.<\/p>\n The lead applicant may <\/strong>be awarded more than 1<\/strong> grant under this call for applications (once under the national sub-granting scheme, and second as a partner under the regional sub-granting scheme).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LIST OF REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR CONCEPT NOTE STAGE OF APPLICATION <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The following documents must be submitted at the Concept Note Stage:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TIMELINE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 20.03.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 27-30.03.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 07.04.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 25.04.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n No later than 10.05.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 16-19.05.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 31.05.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 01.07.2023<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CONCEPT NOTES EVALUATION CRITERIA<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n As part of the administrative evaluation, the Consortium reserves the right to verify information and documents submitted by applicants, with authorized providers of such services and \/ or state institutions.<\/p>\n The concept notes will be evaluated against criteria set out below. The concept notes will receive an overall score out of 30 maximum points using the breakdown in the evaluation grid below. <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>The evaluation criteria<\/u> is divided into headings and subheadings. Each subheading will be given a score between 1 and 5 as follows: 1 = very poor; 2 = poor; 3 = adequate; 4 = good; 5 = very good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Sub-score<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Does the concept indicate the expected results to be achieved by the project?<\/td>\n 5×2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n SUBMISSION AND DEADLINE <\/u><\/b><\/p>\n The completed application form, concept note, and documents should be sent directly to the Learning and Grants Manager of GBWN \u2013 Elena Acevska on the following e-mail address: acevska@crpm.org.mk<\/a> no later than 07.04.2023 COB.<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> For more details please refer to the publications of GBWN: https:\/\/gbwn.net\/en\/publications\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n Concept note application<\/strong><\/td>\n Deadline<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Request for Applications publication<\/td>\n \n \n Info Session (will be announced for each country separately)<\/p>\n \n
\n \n Deadline for submission of Application<\/td>\n \n \n Selection of grantees announcement<\/td>\n \n \n Finish online training on GBWN e-academy (two modules)<\/td>\n \n \n GRB watch dogging of post COVID-19 recovery training for CSOs in Montenegro<\/td>\n \n \n Full project proposals and budgets due (templates to be provided after selection of Concept Notes)<\/td>\n \n \n Contract signature with final beneficiaries and anticipated project start date<\/td>\n \n \n\n
\n CRITERIA<\/strong><\/td>\n \n \n 1. Relevance of the project<\/strong><\/td>\n Sub-score<\/td>\n \n \n 1.1 How relevant is the concept to the objective of the call for proposals? How relevant is the concept to the specific themes stated in the call?<\/td>\n \n \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1.2\u00a0\u00a0 How relevant is the project to clearly identified needs of the final beneficiaries and target groups, and are these strategically chosen and clearly defined?<\/td>\n \n \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2. Design of the project<\/strong><\/td>\n \n \n \n 2.1\u00a0\u00a0 How coherent is the overall design of the project?<\/p>\n \n \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2.2\u00a0\u00a0 Experience and capacities of the CSOs, including financial capacities<\/td>\n \n \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2.3\u00a0 \u00a0To what extent are diverse groups included as target groups and\/or beneficiaries, using an intersectional approach (e.g., persons of different ages, genders, ethnicities, abilities, religions, identities, rural\/urban locations, and marginalized groups.<\/td>\n \n \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n TOTAL SCORE<\/strong><\/td>\n \n <\/h1>\n