The Southern African Community (SADC) Secretariat has announced a call for applications for Enhanced Cooperation and Dialogue for Regional Integration: The SADC Dialogue Facility (SDF) – support to evidence-based and results-oriented policy dialogue.

Apply here: https://www.sadc.int/opportunities/procurement/open-procurement-opportunities/enhanced-cooperation-and-dialogue-regional-integration/

• Undertaking policy research to inform policy dialogues and strengthen evidence-based results-oriented discussions within the thematic areas of relevance to SADC

• Industrialisation and Value Addition;
• Digital Economy;
• Climate Change.

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is USD 420,000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
• Each pilot project/action will be between USD 60.000 and USD 80.000. This amount will depend on the nature and scale of the proposal.

• be a legal person and
• be non-profit-making and
• be established in a one or more than one SADC Member State and/or
• be established in a) an ACP State; b) a Member State of the European Union; c) beneficiaries of the Instrument for pre-accession assistance; d) a Member State of the European Economic Area; e) Overseas Countries and Territories; f) developing countries and territories, as included in the OECD-DAC list of ODA Recipients, which are not members of the G20 group, without prejudice to the status of the Republic of South Africa, as governed by Protocol 3 of the Partnership Agreement; and be a legal person with experience in undertaking research and innovation activities in the SADC region; and
• be a legal person with experience in undertaking research and innovation activities in the SADC region; and
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action

• Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
• Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself/herself.
• Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.

• The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
• Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to coapplicant(s):
  • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.