Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)

1 Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) Call for proposals Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children - CERV-2022-DAPHNE Version 22 November 2021 CERV-2022-DAPHNE: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children EU Grants: Call document (CERV): 2 HISTORY OF CHANGES Version Publication Date Change Page Initial version (new MFF). CERV-2022-DAPHNE: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children EU Grants: Call document (CERV): 3 CALL FOR PROPOSALS TABLE OF CONTENTS 0.

2 Introduction .. 4 1. Background .. 5 2. Objectives Themes and priorities Activities that can be funded Expected impact .. 6 Objectives .. 6 Themes and priorities (scope) .. 7 Activities that can be funded (scope) .. 11 Expected impact .. 12 3. Available budget .. 18 4. Timetable and deadlines .. 18 5. Admissibility and documents .. 19 6. Eligibility .. 20 Eligible participants (eligible countries) .. 20 Consortium composition .. 22 Eligible activities .. 22 Geographic location (target countries) .. 22 Duration .. 22 Ethics and EU Values .. 23 7. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion.

3 23 Financial capacity .. 23 Operational capacity .. 24 Exclusion .. 24 8. Evaluation and award procedure .. 25 9. Award criteria .. 26 10. Legal and financial set-up of the Grant Agreements .. 27 Starting date and project duration .. 27 Milestones and deliverables .. 27 Form of grant, funding rate and maximum grant amount .. 28 Budget categories and cost eligibility rules .. 28 Reporting and payment arrangements .. 29 Prefinancing guarantees .. 30 Certificates .. 30 Liability regime for recoveries .. 30 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Programme and financial management CERV-2022-DAPHNE: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children EU Grants: Call document (CERV): 4 Provisions concerning the project implementation.

4 31 Other specificities .. 31 Non-compliance and breach of contract .. 31 11. How to submit an application .. 31 12. Help .. 32 13. Important .. 33 0. Introduction This is a call for proposals for EU action grants in the field of gender-based violence under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value Programme (CERV). The regulatory framework for this EU Funding Programme is set out in: Regulation 2018/1046 (EU Financial Regulation) the basic act (CERV Regulation 2021/6921). The call is launched in accordance with the 2021-2022 Work Programme2 and will be managed by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST).

5 The call covers the following topics: CERV-2022-DAPHNE Each project application under the call must address only one of these topics. applicants wishing to apply for more than one topic, must submit a separate proposal under each topic. We invite you to read the call documentation carefully, and in particular this Call Document, the Model Grant Agreement, the EU Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual and the EU Grants AGA Annotated Grant Agreement. These documents provide clarifications and answers to questions you may have when preparing your application: the Call Document outlines the: background, objectives, scope, activities that can be funded and the expected results (sections 1 and 2) timetable and available budget (sections 3 and 4) admissibility and eligibility conditions (including mandatory documents.)

6 Sections 5 and 6) criteria for financial and operational capacity and exclusion (section 7) evaluation and award procedure (section 8) 1 Regulation (EU) 2021/692 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (OJ L 156, , p. 1). 2 Commission Implementing Decision C(2021) 2583 final of 19/04/2021 on the financing of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme and the adoption of the multiannual work Programme for 2021-2022.

7 CERV-2022-DAPHNE: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children EU Grants: Call document (CERV): 5 award criteria (section 9) legal and financial set-up of the Grant Agreements (section 10) how to submit an application (section 11) the Online Manual outlines the: procedures to register and submit proposals online via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal ( Portal ) recommendations for the preparation of the application the AGA Annotated Grant Agreement contains: detailed annotations on all the provisions in the Grant Agreement you will have to sign in order to obtain the grant (including cost eligibility, payment schedule, accessory obligations, etc).

8 You are also encouraged to visit the Europe for Citizens Programme Project Results website, REC Programme results webpage and the Daphne Toolkit to consult the list of projects funded previously. 1. Background Gender-based violence is violence directed against individuals because of their gender, with women and girls making up the vast majority of victims3. Gender-based violence remains one of our societies biggest challenges and is deeply rooted in gender inequality. It is both a cause and consequence of gender inequalities. It is a violation of human Rights and the most brutal form of discrimination on the basis of sex, and results from unequal power relations between women and men.

9 Violence affects victims in a profound manner, having a direct impact on their ability to participate fully in all aspects of society. The human costs are of course tremendous; but the economic costs of gender-based violence are also alarmingly high. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has estimated that the cost of gender-based violence across the EU is 366 billion a year. Violence against women makes up 79 % of this cost, amounting to 289 The first pillar of the Gender Equality Strategy Being free from violence and stereotypes sets ambitious policy objectives and actions to tackle gender-based violence, including funding to support civil society and public services in preventing and combating gender-based violence.

10 Violence against children is understood to mean "all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect of negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse" as listed in Article 19(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child5 and in alignment with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's General comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of World vision estimates that more than one billion children around the world experience violence every year7, in different forms and different settings.