Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The general objective of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (‘Mechanism’ or ‘UCPM’) is to strengthen the cooperation between the Union and the Member States and to facilitate coordination in the field of civil protection in order to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for and responding to natural and man-made disasters.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The overall objective of the UCPM is to strengthen the cooperation among Member States in the field of civil protection to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for, and responding to natural and human-induced disasters. The UCPM aims to achieve a high level of protection against disasters by preventing or reducing their potential effects, and to enhance preparedness at Member State and Union level to respond to disasters.
This action provides national disaster risk management authorities of eligible countries with financial support for the development of strategic disaster risk management actions.
Detailed Call Description
Applicants must choose only one of the following priorities:
Priority 1: Strategic frameworks for disaster risk management
- Develop a multi-risk or risk-specific disaster risk management plan and/or strategy
- Carry out studies and assessments required to develop policies, legislation, institutions and/or measures for improved disaster risk management and climate resilience;
- Develop a strategic framework for public awareness raising and training programmes for disaster risk management;
- Develop or enhance national multi-hazard disaster loss databases and/or tools;
- Develop green transition plans and/or instruments for disaster risk management authorities;
- Contribute to the implementation of the relevant Union disaster resilience goals
Priority 2: Investments for disaster risk management
- Conduct feasibility studies and/or assessments required for the preparation or upgrade of investments for disaster risk management and climate resilience (infrastructure and/or other investment projects), such as design, cost-benefit analyses, impact assessments, etc.;
- Develop proposals for investment projects addressing disaster and climate resilience that would be submitted for funding to national budget or to various Union funds;
- Develop national/sub-national investment plan(s) for implementing prevention, preparedness, and/or recovery measures;
- Contribute to the implementation of the relevant Union Disaster Resilience Goal(s).
Priority 3: Investments to improve crisis management capabilities
- Support effective crisis management capacities in a Member State, e.g. processes aimed at ensuring effective scenario-building, foresight and horizon-scanning for the purposes of detecting, identifying and assessing potential future crisis situations;
- Develop or improve existing plans, procedures and/or arrangements, including business continuity planning, aimed at ensuring effective cross-sectoral and cross-border crisis preparedness and responses, including ones with a UCPM component;
- Develop or enhance existing plans, procedures and/or arrangements for sharing information, including early warning information, on a cross-sectoral and cross-border basis;
- Contribute to the implementation of the relevant Union Disaster Resilience Goals
Activities that can be funded:
- Developing a strategic framework for disaster risk management, including developing disaster risk management plans or strategies, develop risk assessment capabilities, gather multi-hazard disaster loss data, designing public awareness plans or carrying out studies on disaster and climate resilience building.
- Investments for disaster risk management, including feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, impact assessment linked to a change of the disaster risk management policy or legislation as well as developing national/sub-national investment plans for implementing prevention, preparedness and recovery measures.
- Investments to improve crisis management capabilities, including developing or enhancing plans, procedures and arrangements aimed at ensuring effective cross-sectoral crisis preparedness and response, and at enhancing information sharing through early warning systems.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
95%
Project budget (maximum grant amount): €750.000 per project. The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.
Thematic Categories
- Public Administration
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public bodies);
- be the national level civil protection authority or a national authority with disaster risk management responsibilities of eligible countries;
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- UCPM Participating Countries:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine;
- Other countries: Georgia and Kosovo, in view of their ongoing efforts to join the UCPM.
- UCPM Participating Countries:
According to the Financing Decision, the applicants have to be national disaster risk management authorities of eligible countries. This includes civil protection authorities and other authorities with disaster risk management responsibilities.
Whenever the applicant is not a national civil protection authority, the application should include references to the relevant legal basis showing the responsibilities of the applicant in the disaster risk management area.
Consortium composition:
In the context of this call, which is targeting single applicants, by ‘consortium’ we refer to the applicant (beneficiary) plus, possibly, affiliated entity(-ies) and/or associated partner(s).
Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries); affiliated entities are allowed, if applicable and duly justified.
Due to the technical nature of the activities and the administrative structure in case of decentralised administrations, a legal entity having a legal or capital link with the main applicant, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation, may take part in the action as an Affiliated Entity.
Affiliated entities may declare eligible costs. It is therefore important that applicants correctly identify the Affiliated Entity(-ies) in the application form.
Where an action, due to its nature, should require sub-contracting (e.g. to make available a specific/technical expertise), the eligible applicant will still need to keep the “steering” of the action and ownership of its outputs. Under this call for proposals, the entire action may be sub-contracted, except for the tasks of reporting and submitting of the deliverables to the Commission.
In all cases, the eligible applicant takes the responsibility for the oversight and execution of the activities and for the final deliverables to the Commission.
Applicants may participate with associated partners (i.e. partner organisations which participate in the action but without the right to get grant money). They participate without funding and therefore do not need to be validated.
During the evaluation phase, the Commission reserves the right to assess the qualification of an entity other than the beneficiary identified in the application form, according to Article 187 of the Financial Regulation.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Civil Defence, Ministry of Interior Affairs
Kyriakos Hadjigeorgiou
Senior Civil Defence Officer
Telephone: +357 22 403448
Email: khadjigeorgiou@cd.moi.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: ECHO-CP-P&P@ec.europa.eu.