GRANT FACILITY 2005

Pre-notice of Call for Proposals

ECHO will be seeking shortly proposals for capacity building actions for the
benefit of ECHO Partners:
(1) From FPA1 signatories and other non-profit-making organisations
specialised in providing technical support to NGOs in the areas of financial
management, human resources management, assessment and evaluation,
procurement and logistics
- in the fields of operation planning and design, proposal presentation,
reporting tools and identification of indicators per sector of intervention in the
framework of humanitarian operations.
(2) From European Networks of non-profit-making organisations specialised in
humanitarian aid
- for assistance aiming at improving NGO internal management capacity and
quality of aid delivery by providing follow-up training;
- for actions aiming at networking between big and smaller organisations
inducing multiplier effects and developing the role of voluntarism in
humanitarian aid;
- and for strengthening their own institutional capacity to provide added value
to European humanitarian aid.
The total funds available for both strands of the 2005 Grant Facility are
anticipated to be 550.000 .
The full Guidelines for Applicants will be published during the month of April in
this Web page. The deadline for the submission of proposals will be one
month from the date of publication.
Grant agreements, ruled by the procedures and provisions of the FPA and of
the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European
Communities, are expected to be concluded before the end of the third
quarter of the year.
The implementation period of the actions will be 12 months maximum.
Actions financed under this Grant Facility have to start their implementation
not later than October 2005 and have to end not later than 31 July 2006.

FPA Framework Partnership Agreement ECHO has signed with humanitarian organisations