NDICI – Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in Malawi – 2023

NDICI - Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in Malawi aiming at empowering civil society organisations and to support their efforts to promote, advance and defend human rights and consolidate their role as actors for positive change.

Appeal framework

Institution European Commission

Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training

Beneficiaries All beneficiaries

Regions Africa-Carribean-Pacific, Central America, Central Asia, European Union

Details

Countries eligible to the programme: Click here

Lot 1: Support to the Parliament of Malawi: The action must take place primarily within Lilongwe

Lot 2: Improving the living conditions and treatment of prisoners: The action must take place in one or more of the country’s central prisons: Blantyre, Zomba, Mzuzu or Lilongwe

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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

To empower civil society organisations and to support their efforts to promote, advance and defend human rights and consolidate their role as actors for positive change
To strengthen capacity of the Parliament of Malawi to better perform its oversight, legislative and representative function
To improve the living conditions and treatment of Prisoners

Priorities

Enhancing cost-effective civic education and outreach initiatives to improve citizen’s awareness and participation in Parliamentary proceedings
Strengthening the legislative functioning of Parliament through greater autonomy and independence in analysing, generating, processing and tracking of bills
Promoting research services and use of evidence based decision-making in policy-making
Implementing Inter-Parliamentary Peer-to-Peer mentorship, exchange visits, training and capacity building of Members of Staff across key departments
Development and implementation of sustainable initiatives to improve the living conditions and welfare of prisoners
Advocacy to relevant policy makers and key stakeholders to address recommendations from the Inspectorate of Prisons

Among financed actions

Lot 1: Support to the Parliament of Malawi

Enhancing cost-effective civic education and outreach initiatives to improve citizen’s awareness and participation in Parliamentary proceedings
Strengthening the legislative function of Parliament, i.e. through improved in-house legislative drafting of Bills, support to Members of Parliament to generate Private Members Bills, support to Parliamentarians to scrutinise and contribute to debates on relevant bills and topical matters
Providing support to Parliament Committees and the Parliament Budget Office to systematically track progress of legislation and measure its impact in Malawi i.e. tracking loan authorisation bills, monitoring public debt levels, assessing the implementation of the national budgets etc.
Promoting research services and use of evidence-based decision-making in policy-making, i.e. through development of research tools and guides, facilitate linkage with research and academic institutes, technical support to the Research Section
Developing and implementing legislative ICT Systems, i.e. Bill tracking system, committee process tracking system and develop a Parliamentary research database
Implementing Inter-Parliamentary Peer-to-Peer mentorship, exchange visits, training and capacity building of staff members across key departments, i.e. Legal, Research, Table, Committee, ICT and Civic Education Sections

Lot 2: Improving the living conditions and treatment of prisoners

Development and implementation of activities addressing prisoner rights (such as, but not limited to, health, legal representation, education, etc.)
Activities aimed at improving general living conditions of prisoners
Activities pertaining to the protection of vulnerable groups of prisoners (such as, but not limited to, minors in conflict with the law, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities)
Reformation and social rehabilitative programmes
Activities on prison reform – efforts to align with the proposed reforms in the Prison Bill and/or support to the enactment of the Bill
Advocacy to relevant policy makers and key stakeholders to address the latest recommendations from the Inspectorate of Prisons

Additional information

This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
Initial duration of the action: between 30 and 36 months

Eligibility

Be a legal person
Be a civil society organisation active in human rights and democratic governance in Malawi or be a natural person or grouping without legal personality
Be established in a Member State of the European Union or eligible non EU Member States as established in Regulation (EU) No 2021/947. This obligation does not apply to international organisations
Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary

Financement

Total budget of the call: 1.2 million euro
Amount of the grant:
- Lot 1: Support to the Parliament of Malawi: 600.000 euro
- Lot 2: Improving the living conditions and treatment of prisoners: 600.000 euro
Co-financing rate:
- In case of International, lead applicants: between 60% and 90% of the total eligible costs of the action
- In case of national, lead applicants: between 60% and 95% of the total eligible costs of the action

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