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 In order for registered members to use freelancing and private forums services, they must have a subscription plan.

 RDN Platform has three membership subscription plans as follows:-

1. Economy Plan
2. Premier Plan
3. Business Plan

 Details about the plans:-

ECONOMY PLAN

This is a free subscription plan. Subscribing to this plan will allow you to access freelancing services (Submit project & Find Projects) but it will cost you nothing.  The following are benefits for Economy plan

• Access and connect with professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Investors
• Access general opportunities as any registered member
• Access and use main Forums
• Portfolios allowed(5)
• Project Commission (5%)
• Featured Project service($20)
• Private projects service ($15)
• Urgent projects service ($15)
• Sealed Projects service ($15)
• NDA projects service ($20)

PREMIER PLAN

Subscription to premier plan cost $9.6 per month. Subscribing to this plan will allow you to access Freelancing services with discounted rate.  The plan will also allow you to access private forums and more benefits as follows.

• Access high profile professionals
• Access and use Business & Professional Forums
• Access and use Enterprises Forums
• High chance to access committed business partners or partnership
• High chance to be included in the RDN task force for offline projects
• Access high-level Entrepreneurs and Investors
• Portfolios allowed(10)
• Project Commission (3%)
• Featured Project service($15)
• Private projects service ($10)
• Urgent projects service ($10)
• Sealed Projects service ($10)
• NDA projects service ($15)

BUSINESS PLAN

Subscription to Business plan cost $33 per month.  Subscribing to this plan will allow you to access Freelancing services with more discounted commission and free project promotion services.  The plan will also allow you to access private forums and more benefits as follows:-

• Access high profile professionals
• Access and use Business & Professional Forums
• Access and use Enterprises Forums
• High chance to access committed business partners or partnership
• High chance to be included in the RDN task force for offline projects
• Access high-level Entrepreneurs and Investors
• Portfolios allowed(15)
• Project Commission (2%)
• Featured Project service(Free)
• Private projects service (Free)
• Urgent projects service (Free)
• Sealed Projects service (Free)
• NDA projects service (Free)
• Daily withdraw

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Stages to Develop Business Ideas

Proper preparation and adherence to standards is a crucial for Idea development at all stages to ensure the business is developed properly. Before starting a business, you need to evaluate your idea and determine what your chances are of making a profit from that idea. The more information you can gather about the potential demand for your product or service, about your competitors, and about the needs and wants of your prospective customers, the more successful you are likely to be.  The following highlights stages for idea development.

1. Creation

Brain work/ brainstorming is the key to concept creation. Keep track of all the ideas that are generated. Review each idea to determine its relevant in term of generating the most profits.

2. Assessment

Research, Research, Research! Concept assessment involves market research where information about your idea is collected and analyzed. You must understand the target market, what the market needs and is looking for and what the market is willing to pay for the product or service. You must assess all aspects of the idea before moving on to the next stage.

3. Planning

You must create a thorough business plan or strategy with clear goals. Provide information about your balance sheet, income statements and cash flow. A well-defined business plan will steer the business in the right direction and will increase the chances of having a successful product launch.

4. Development

Develop a prototype of your product that you can offer to the market. Create manufacturing and operations processes, plans for your marketing launch and your market testing plans.

5. Testing

Release your prototype into the public marketplace. Your prototype is tracked and your market test results should confirm that this is a valid idea to move forward as a product.

6. Launch

During this stage, you should address whether you have enough number of products and relevant marketing plan. Employees must be properly trained and ready to support the product.

The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), which provides funding for this call for proposals, is a European Union instrument that aims specifically at promoting democracy and human rights worldwide. This instrument is designed to support civil society to become an effective force for political reform and defence of human rights. It offers great flexibility and capacity to respond to changing circumstances and to support innovation. The EIDHR Global Programme to Strengthen Political Parties falls under objective 3 of the EIDHR: Support to Democracy.

This programme which aims at strengthening political parties and party systems is anchored firmly in the EU's policy framework. The EU commitment to democracy is articulated in the Treaty on the European Union (Art. 21), and therefore is a key component of EU foreign policy. This commitment is also part of the efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 16: 'promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.'

As stated in the Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy, democracy is one of the 'vital interests underpinning our external action'. The proposal for a new European Consensus on Development explicitly mentions that 'accountable, democratic institutions are preconditions for sustainable development and stability' and states that the EU will promote 'accountable and transparent institutions' and 'participatory decision-making'.

Furthermore, support to the capacity of political parties is mentioned in the Council Conclusions on Democracy Support of 2009 according to which 'EU democracy support should (…) aim at assisting efforts and strengthening the capacity of Governments, Parliaments and other state institutions, political actors, civil society organisations and other actors.' The annexed Agenda for Action states that 'EU democracy support should include a special focus on the role of elected representatives and political parties and institutions' and that the 'EU should continue its established practice of looking for innovative ways to involve civil society, political parties, the media and other nongovernmental political players in the dialogues.' The Joint Communication on the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019)  announces that the EU engagement with political parties and citizen movements will be increased 'with a view to strengthening their role in fostering democratic and accountable institutions and practices.' The Council Conclusions on Democracy Support also emphasise that 'the ability of men and women to participate on equal terms in political life and in decision-making is a prerequisite of genuine democracy.' As the EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 points out, 'discriminatory laws, practices or norms often limit girls’ and women’s social, economic and political participation.' The Commission is supporting 'women's increased participation in policy, governance and electoral processes at all levels' through 'efforts to contribute in a measurable manner to increase girls' and women's agency, voice and participation in social, economic and political life.'

OBJECTIVES

Lot 1: Participation of women – and especially young women – in political parties

• To empower young women to take an active role in the life of the parties (including in their policy-making and decision-making structures) and in political affairs in general, at both national and local levels, including increasing the percentage of young female members and female decision makers/leaders in political parties.

 Lot 2: Party-systems

• To support inter-party dialogues on the legal, financial and/or policy framework affecting political parties and political party financing, and/or
• To support political parties in improving their governance, transparency, accountability and outreach to citizens (particularly women and youth), both at national and local levels.

SIZE OF GRANTS

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• For Lot1:
  • minimum amount: EUR 950,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 1,250,000
• For Lot 2
  • minimum amount: EUR 500,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 600,00

ELIGIBLE CRITERIA

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:

• be a legal person and
• be non-profit-making and
• be a specific type of organization such as: civil societyorganizations , including non-governmental, non-profit organizations, associations and political foundations, community-based organizations and private- sector non-profit agencies and networks thereof at local, national, regional and international level;
  • public sector operators, public sector institutions and organisations, local authorities , non-profit-making universities;
  • international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 43 of the Rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation 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
• No nationality restriction applies to lead applicants, co-applicants and affiliated entities.
• Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations.

The call for proposal deadline is 04 July 2017 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time). Download the attached guideline for more information.   

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Education in fragile and crisis-affected environments is a priority within the European Union’s development and cooperation policy. The EU’s thematic program ‘Global Public Goods and Challenges’ has its legal basis in Regulation 233/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014, establishing a financing Instrument for Development Cooperation (DCI).  The program prioritizes education opportunities in fragile and crisis affected environments. In addition, over half of the countries where the EU’s geographic programs focus on education, are fragile or conflict affected. The EU is also one of the first donors to have gradually increased the allocation of its humanitarian budget to education in crises, reaching now 6%.

The EU also has a number of overarching policies that prioritizes protection and educational needs of children and youth affected by crises.Education has been reflected in the Global Strategy on the EU's Foreign and Security Policy, as an essential means to address wider global challenges related to peace, stability and prosperity, to strengthen societal resilience, pluralism and coexistence. The proposal for a new European Consensus on Development refers to education as a main component to address the needs of displaced people and their integration into wider development planning. The proposal also refers to the need to deliver humanitarian and development assistance in a coherent way.

The Communication (2016) “Lives in Dignity: from Aid-dependency to Self-RelianceForced Displacement and Development” recognizes that a development approach is needed to address educational needs in protracted crises. The Communication (2008) “A Special Place for Children in EU External Action” and the accompanying Action Plan commit to eliminating all forms of violence against children, including in armed conflicts. The new EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) for 2016-2020 prioritises an increase in the number of girls and women receiving quality education. This includes ensuring a safe environment corresponding to child protection principles, free of sexual gender-based violence.

There is international consensus on the need for stronger global action on access to safe and quality education in protracted crises. The new United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development clearly states that if the education needs of millions of children affected by crises are not being addressed, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, which calls to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, runs the risk of not being met. At the Oslo Summit on Education for Development (July 2015), senior representatives of international agencies, governments, and non-governmental organizations made a commitment to address the disruption of education and to improve learning outcomes in countries experiencing emergencies and protracted crises.

Children living in crisis situations face a higher risk of being left behind. Approximately 37 million primary and lower secondary age children are out of school in crisis affected countries. This is a full 30% of those out of school globally across these age groups. There are currently at least 14 million refugee and internally displaced children aged 3-15 in affected countries. Very few of these go to pre-primary, 1 in 2 to primary and 1 in 4 to lower secondary school. Girls are disproportionately affected, especially by conflict. Girls are 2.5 times more likely to be out of school than their male peers in conflict-affected contexts. The majority of children affected by crises are living in conflict contexts, with significant minorities experiencing complex emergencies, natural disasters, and public health emergencies. Crises are increasingly protracted in nature. At the end of 2014, UNHCR estimated that some 6.4 million refugees - i.e. 45% of all refugees - lived in protracted displacement situations (lasting five years or more), with an average duration of 17 years. Nearly 90% of the world's InternallyDisplaced People have lived in displacement for ten years or more.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME AND PRIORITY ISSUES

The global objective of this call for proposals is to maintain and contribute to improved access to quality basic education (pre-school, primary and lower secondary education) for children in fragile and crisis-affected environments.

The specific objectiveof this call for proposals is to develop evidence-based models and deliver safe quality basic education for children in fragile and protracted crisis environments, contributing to building at the same time societal and institutional resilience to make these actions sustainable over time.

PRIORITY AREAS

Please note that each proposal must address all of the below priorities. Should this not be the case the application will be rejected.

 Safe learning environments

The UN Study on Violence against Children shows how children around the globe are subject to violence in and around schools with girls disproportionally affected. This is especially the case for children living in crisis situations. The sources of risk and danger are multiple and complex. In conflict situations, students and schools are often subject to attacks. The Education under Attack Report (2014) reveals how “over the past five years, armed non-state groups, state military and security forces, and armed criminal groups have attacked thousands of schoolchildren, university students, teachers, academics and education establishments in at least 70 countries worldwide.” Proposed actions will need to focus on safe learning environments that make sure that children are safe in and around schools and that contribute to the emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing of children.

Teaching and learning

Student achievement is inextricably linked to teacher quality but precisely one of the greatest challenges is to leverage the role of teachers in a crisis context. Teachers in crisis situations face numerous challenges and even though they play a central role in ensure quality of education they often are last in line for resources and support. Many teachers working with children in crisis situations are volunteers or emergency teachers and lack the necessary skills to teach students with different backgrounds and needs. Actions will need to focus on professional development for teachers and school leadership in crisis environments and help teachers navigating a dual role of helping students coping with conflict and crisis whilst at the same time experiencing psychosocial challenges themselves.

Research , data management and evidence building

Proposed actions will need to address the common challenge of collecting accurate data about education including teachers and children in need of education, their access to educational opportunities and the quality of the education they receive. Where possible, actions will need to focus on strengthening education authorities both at national and local level to efficiently manage data collection for analysis, planning and implementation purposes. The lack of funding and prioritization of education in crisis situations has led to a limited evidence base of what works in providing access to quality education in fragile and crisis situations, leaving a pressing need for a greater understanding of what works in a crisis context. Research on teaching and learning will need to be imbedded into project proposals to ensure evidence building as a sound basis for policy development and action at national, regional and global level. Linkages should be made to existing global and regional knowledge management networks and initiatives and platforms.

Conflict sensitiveness:

Proposed actions need to adopt a conflict sensitive approach and take into account the International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards for Education including the Standards for Conflict Sensitive Education with the purpose of reducing conflict and doing no harm.The proposed action needs to builds on the logic underpinning each of the action’s interrelated and mutually reinforcing components. Safe learning environments are essential to both access and quality of education. Investment in teachers' professional development and better teaching and learning resources contributes to improved quality of education and well-being of teachers. Interventions should be linked to existing education systems where they exist and are functioning at both central and local level.

The call for proposal deadline has been extended to 20/04/2017 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time). Download the attached guideline for more information.  

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This call for proposals is based on the potential of increasing access to sustainable energy as well as on the past and current efforts at addressing gender imbalances that women are facing with regard to access to resources, including energy.

Energy and Gender are recognized as key drivers for development and economic growth. Economic empowerment of women is one of the four pillars of the EU Gender Action Plan. Women's entrepreneurship is seen as an important source of growth, prosperity and poverty reduction with the positive impact on families and children, health and nutrition, communities and the national economy at large. Combining energy and gender will also contribute to the fifth and seventh Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all).

This call is meant to promote the role of women both within the energy value chain and as an end user of energy services for productive activities. Expected results will comprise increased access to affordable finance and to sustainable energy services; improved women's entrepreneurship; increased women's technical and business skills; improved general environment for women's entrepreneurship through political advocacy and awareness campaigns.

This gender initiative under component "Delivering access to affordable, sustainable, reliable and modern energy" of the EU flagship Programme "Global Public Good and Challenges (GPGC)" is supported with € 20 million. The call for proposal deadline extended from May 5, 2017 to 17/05/2017 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time). Please, note that the call is not exclusive for Mozambique but open to several countries as per guidelines.

Download the attached guideline for more information.

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EU Call for Proposals: Intercultural Dialogue and Culture Program

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Intercultural dialogue and Culture” with an aim to promote intercultural dialogue, cultural diversity and respect for equal dignity of all people in the project countries.

The programme is divided into two lots:

Lot 1: Enhancing understanding, tolerance and respect for cultural and religious diversity
Lot 2: Culture as enabler of social inclusion and cohesion of disadvantaged populations
Size of Grants

Any requested EU contribution under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

For Lot 1
minimum amount: EUR 1.500.000
maximum amount: EUR 2.000.000
For Lot 2
minimum amount: EUR 1.900.000
maximum amount: EUR 2.850.000
Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must (for both Lots):
-be a legal person
-be non-profit-making
-be a specific type of organisation such as:
-non-state actor
-network of civil society organisations (CSO );
-public bodies,
-networks and/or associations of local authorities ,
-international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined of the Rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation .
be established in :
Member State of the European Union; or
-a Non-EU country of the European Economic Area; or
-an IPA II beneficiary country; or
-a developing country or territory, (included in the OECD-DAC list of ODA recipients), which is not member of the G20 group;

.Least Developed Countries (LDC’s);
.Other Low-Income Countries;
.Lower Middle-Income Countries and Territories;
.Upper Middle-Income Countries and Territories
.G-20 member developing countries (eligible only if they are also the (or one of the) beneficiaries of the action
.An Overseas Country and Territory (OCTs) covered by Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union; or:

A Non-EU Member State of the OECD only when actions are implemented in the least Developed Country or in a Highly indebted Poor Country)
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,
Note that with regards to the establishment place rule, the obligation does not apply to International Organizations.
Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations
The lead applicant must declare that the lead applicant himself, the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies) are not in any of these situations.
The lead applicant must act with co-applicants as specified hereafter.

The call for proposal deadline is 16/05/2017 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time)

Download the attached guideline for more information

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