[{"bbox": [145, 150, 638, 178], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.2 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity"}, {"bbox": [145, 189, 1082, 376], "category": "Text", "text": "This action may be implemented in indirect management with World Food Programme of the United Nations. This implementation entails carrying out activities to achieving all outputs under this action, except Output 3.1. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: i) technical capacities aligned with the action (provision of school meals to primary schools and ECDs, support to farmer's organisations); ii) good knowledge of the Malawian context with good presence of staff on the ground; iii) previous successful experience managing EU funds in school meals in Malawi; iv) long-lasting working relations with the line ministries relevant to the action."}, {"bbox": [145, 387, 1082, 468], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [145, 479, 533, 506], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Exception to the non-retroactivity of costs"}, {"bbox": [145, 518, 1082, 625], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission authorises that the costs incurred may be recognised as eligible as of 1st August 2023. This is justified by the nature of the activities, which need to follow the academic calendar (October year n to June year n+1). In order for the school meals to be ready in schools by October, activities needs to commence few months in advance."}, {"bbox": [145, 640, 873, 672], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [145, 683, 1082, 765], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply subject to the following provisions."}, {"bbox": [145, 776, 1082, 883], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [145, 896, 415, 927], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.6. Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [116, 936, 1142, 1571], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Indicative Budget components</td><td>EU contribution (in EUR)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Objective 1: Improve inclusive access of primary and pre-primary school girls and boys to nutritious and diversified food throughout the school year, composed of</td><td>10 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect Management with an entrusted entity - cf. section 4.4.2</td><td>10 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Objective 2: Increase access of smallholder farmers, particularly women, to local food markets represented by schools implementing school feeding interventions, composed of</td><td>10 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect Management with an entrusted entity - cf. section 4.4.2</td><td>10 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Objective 3: Improve the management and ownership of the national school feeding programme by the national stakeholders and communities., composed of</td><td>6 500 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect Management with an entrusted entity - cf. section 4.4.2</td><td>5 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Grants (direct management) - cf. section 4.4.1</td><td>1 500 000</td></tr><tr><td>Grants - total envelope under section 4.4.1</td><td>1 500 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect Management with an entrusted entity: total under section 4.4.2</td><td>25 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation - cf. section 5.5 & Audit - cf. section 5.6</td><td>300 000</td></tr><tr><td>Contingencies</td><td>200 000</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>27 000 000</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [965, 1680, 1081, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 26"}]