[{"bbox": [84, 121, 387, 149], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [84, 147, 317, 173], "category": "Text", "text": "NGOs and public bodies."}, {"bbox": [84, 200, 402, 228], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(c) Justification of a direct grant**"}, {"bbox": [84, 227, 1147, 334], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission's authorising officer responsible, the grant may be awarded without a call for proposals to the Kukah Centre selected using operational and financial capacity as essential criteria and relevance of the proposed action to meet the objectives of the programme, design, effectiveness, feasibility, sustainability and the ratio cost/effectiveness of the action as award criteria."}, {"bbox": [84, 358, 1147, 573], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission’s authorising officer responsible, the recourse to an award of a grant without a call for proposals is justified because this is a significant specific objective with specific characteristics that require a particular type of body on account of its technical competence, its high degree of specialisation or its administrative power (article 195(f) of the Financial Regulation). The Kukah Centre has a specific mandate for political party engagement, a specialty and technical competence that is difficult to access due to the complex nature of political party operations in Nigeria. The Kukah centre has done a lot of work in establishing, facilitating and sustaining dialogue within political parties, and between political parties and the Electoral Management Body in Nigeria."}, {"bbox": [84, 597, 439, 625], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**4.4.1.3 Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [84, 651, 342, 679], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [84, 677, 1146, 732], "category": "Text", "text": "*Specific Objective 4:* Media, including new media empowered to promote fair and ethical coverage of the electoral process and fight hate speech and disinformation."}, {"bbox": [84, 757, 387, 785], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [84, 784, 317, 810], "category": "Text", "text": "NGOs and public bodies."}, {"bbox": [84, 836, 402, 864], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(c) Justification of a direct grant**"}, {"bbox": [84, 863, 1147, 993], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission’s authorising officer responsible, the grant may be awarded without a call for proposals the International Press Centre (IPC) and the Centre for Media and Society selected using operational and financial capacity as essential criteria and relevance of the proposed action to meet the objectives of the programme, design, effectiveness, feasibility, sustainability and the ratio cost/effectiveness of the action as award criteria."}, {"bbox": [84, 1021, 1147, 1236], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission’s authorising officer responsible, the recourse to an award of a grant without a call for proposals is justified on account of the organisations’ technical competence and high degree of specialisation (article 195(f) of the Financial Regulation). These two institutions are a coalition of several media organisations working on electoral reform and media pluralism in a bid to improve the democratic space. They are highly specialized and have specific competences – unique in this area of work – which are valued by authorities. Their memorandum containing recommendations on a new legal framework for the media in Nigeria, submitted during a public hearing at the Senate, has been endorsed by the Senate and by the Ministry of information, the supervising ministry for media operations in Nigeria, to help guide the reform process."}, {"bbox": [84, 1260, 439, 1288], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**4.4.1.4 Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [84, 1313, 342, 1341], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [84, 1339, 1147, 1392], "category": "Text", "text": "*Specific Objective 5:* Enhanced Participation of Women, Youth and other Marginalized Groups in the Political Process."}, {"bbox": [84, 1419, 387, 1447], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [84, 1446, 317, 1472], "category": "Text", "text": "NGOs and public bodies."}, {"bbox": [84, 1499, 402, 1527], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(c) Justification of a direct grant**"}, {"bbox": [84, 1526, 1147, 1656], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission’s authorising officer responsible, the grant may be awarded without a call for proposals to the Nigerian Women Trust Fund, ElectHER, The Albino Foundation (TAF) and the Cedar Seed Foundation selected using operational and financial capacity as essential criteria and relevance of the proposed action to meet the objectives of the programme, design, effectiveness, feasibility, sustainability and the ratio cost/effectiveness of the action as award criteria."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1661, 1158, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 24 of 29"}]