Quality Label Humanitarian Aid - Full Procedure
European Solidarity Corps Quality Label for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
24/09/2024
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Public Institution
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What is the Quality Label Humanitarian Aid - Full Procedure Call?
Grant Description
This call awards a Quality Label certifying that organisations can deliver high‐quality volunteer humanitarian aid activities under the European Solidarity Corps. It addresses the need to standardise and ensure quality in humanitarian volunteering by certifying entities in either a support role (preparing, training and coordinating volunteers) or a host role (hosting and guiding volunteers). Successful organisations receive a label valid for the programming period, facilitating participation in ...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• Awarding of Quality Labels to a network of support and host organisations capable of delivering high-quality humanitarian aid volunteering.
• Published profiles of certified organisations on the European Solidarity Corps Portal’s Quality Label database, facilitating partner search and consortium building.
• Enhanced capacity of organisations to recruit, prepare, host and support volunteers in compliance with ESC quality standards, ensuring safety, inclusion and non-discrimination.
• Delivery of safe, meaningful volunteering experiences that develop volunteers’ personal, social and civic competencies and yield validated learning outcomes.
• Strengthened cooperation between programme and non-programme country organisations through the simplified host procedure.
• Creation of a sustainable pool of qualified humanitarian volunteering actors contributing to improved humanitarian aid delivery and community impact across targeted regions.
• Published profiles of certified organisations on the European Solidarity Corps Portal’s Quality Label database, facilitating partner search and consortium building.
• Enhanced capacity of organisations to recruit, prepare, host and support volunteers in compliance with ESC quality standards, ensuring safety, inclusion and non-discrimination.
• Delivery of safe, meaningful volunteering experiences that develop volunteers’ personal, social and civic competencies and yield validated learning outcomes.
• Strengthened cooperation between programme and non-programme country organisations through the simplified host procedure.
• Creation of a sustainable pool of qualified humanitarian volunteering actors contributing to improved humanitarian aid delivery and community impact across targeted regions.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Roles and Eligibility: organisations legally established in programme countries may apply for Support Role; those in non-programme countries may apply for Host Role; programme-country applicants may use a simplified procedure to include branches in non-programme countries under the same legal entity. Groups of young people are not eligible.
• Quality Standards: adherence to equal opportunities and non-discrimination; no job substitution; no profit from volunteering; respect for child and disability rights; robust security, health, safety and evacuation procedures; transparent and fair volunteer selection; free participation for volunteers (except minimal travel contributions); validation of learning outcomes.
• Operational Capacity: demonstrated track record in humanitarian aid; ability to allocate sufficient resources; risk assessment and security planning; clear task division before, during and after deployment; language, medical and legal clearance; insurance coverage; visa and travel arrangements; designated support contacts and mentorship structures; robust monitoring, reporting and evaluation systems; digital tools integration; environmental sustainability measures.
• Administrative Conditions: submission via EACEA Funding & Tenders Portal; declaration of honour signed by legal representative; applications accepted continuously with defined cut-off dates; alignment with the ESC Humanitarian Aid projects timetable.
• Quality Standards: adherence to equal opportunities and non-discrimination; no job substitution; no profit from volunteering; respect for child and disability rights; robust security, health, safety and evacuation procedures; transparent and fair volunteer selection; free participation for volunteers (except minimal travel contributions); validation of learning outcomes.
• Operational Capacity: demonstrated track record in humanitarian aid; ability to allocate sufficient resources; risk assessment and security planning; clear task division before, during and after deployment; language, medical and legal clearance; insurance coverage; visa and travel arrangements; designated support contacts and mentorship structures; robust monitoring, reporting and evaluation systems; digital tools integration; environmental sustainability measures.
• Administrative Conditions: submission via EACEA Funding & Tenders Portal; declaration of honour signed by legal representative; applications accepted continuously with defined cut-off dates; alignment with the ESC Humanitarian Aid projects timetable.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Continuous call with multiple annual deadlines (first opening 10 June 2021; deadlines on 22 Sep 2021, 24 Mar 2022, 22 Sep 2022, 16 Mar 2023, 21 Sep 2023, 24 Sep 2024, 23 Sep 2025, 22 Sep 2026).
• Application via the Education and Culture Executive Agency’s Funding & Tenders Portal (Call ID ESC-HUMAID-2021-QUAL-LABEL).
• Simplified host procedure allows branches in non-programme countries to be covered by a programme-country support organisation’s application.
• Declaration of honour required.
• Quality Label valid until end of programming period and until completion of last linked project, subject to periodic reassessments and possible ad hoc monitoring visits.
• Organisations must notify any structural or operational changes affecting the Label.
• In cases of serious underperformance or non-compliance, the Label may be withdrawn or terminated.
• Volunteers must not be charged fees (beyond possible travel contributions) and must not receive salaries or financial gain.
• Application via the Education and Culture Executive Agency’s Funding & Tenders Portal (Call ID ESC-HUMAID-2021-QUAL-LABEL).
• Simplified host procedure allows branches in non-programme countries to be covered by a programme-country support organisation’s application.
• Declaration of honour required.
• Quality Label valid until end of programming period and until completion of last linked project, subject to periodic reassessments and possible ad hoc monitoring visits.
• Organisations must notify any structural or operational changes affecting the Label.
• In cases of serious underperformance or non-compliance, the Label may be withdrawn or terminated.
• Volunteers must not be charged fees (beyond possible travel contributions) and must not receive salaries or financial gain.
Important dates
Open from: 10/06/2021
Deadline:24/09/2024
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