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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.

2023-06-23
1.2 million euro
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Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training
Beneficiaries All beneficiaries

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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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