[{"bbox": [85, 146, 708, 179], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [85, 200, 382, 231], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [97, 252, 1088, 280], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [85, 299, 510, 331], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [97, 352, 1133, 434], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 60 months from the date of entry into force of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [97, 438, 1121, 491], "category": "Text", "text": "Extensions of the implementation period may be agreed by the Commission's responsible authorising officer by amending this Financing Decision and the relevant contracts and agreements."}, {"bbox": [85, 519, 697, 550], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation of the Budget Support Component"}, {"bbox": [85, 564, 132, 588], "category": "Text", "text": "N.A."}, {"bbox": [85, 610, 440, 641], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 662, 1131, 741], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU appropriate rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures⁶⁷."}, {"bbox": [85, 763, 425, 790], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [97, 811, 384, 838], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [97, 845, 355, 872], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [97, 877, 1134, 930], "category": "Text", "text": "The grants will contribute to achieving the main Outcome through activities foreseen under Output 3.2 ‘*Enhanced capacity and voice of civil society to advocate and keep nutrition at the top of the political agenda*’."}, {"bbox": [97, 936, 401, 963], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [97, 968, 1133, 1022], "category": "Text", "text": "Legal entities non-profit making Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) or assimilated Civil Society Organisations, or respective networks, platforms or federations."}, {"bbox": [97, 1028, 421, 1055], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(c) Justification of a direct grant:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1060, 1133, 1141], "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 current chair of the SUN-Civil Society Platform, which is the ‘*Associação de Nutrição e Segurança Alimentar* (ANSA)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1146, 1133, 1226], "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 due to the technical competence of ANSA, the beneficiary, which is in a factual monopoly situation (Article 195(f) FR)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1239, 1133, 1505], "category": "Text", "text": "Civil society is a key part of the SUN movement through the SUN-Civil Society Platform, which puts particular emphasis on multi-stakeholder partnerships and the role of civil society ‘in advocating and sustaining political will for government action for improved nutrition, including social accountability and monitoring of both public and private sectors, as well as of efficient delivery of nutrition services to beneficiaries’. The SUN-Civil Society Platform was established in June 2011 in order to mobilize civil society actors involved the nutrition agenda in an efficient, coordinated and meaningful way at country level. ANSA was one of the leading organization which contributed to the establishment of the SUN-CSP in Mozambique and it is an active member of the platform since the beginning of its creation. ANSA was elected as the focal point/chair organization of the SUN Civil Society Platform in Mozambique through a transparent and open electoral process which was held in 2021. This would be the second consecutive mandate for ANSA in this role, for at least a two years period. In any case, ANSA, as"}, {"bbox": [85, 1572, 1143, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶⁷ www.sanctionsmap.eu. Please note that the sanctions map is an IT tool for identifying the sanctions regimes. The source of the sanctions stems from legal acts published in the Official Journal (OJ). In case of discrepancy between the published legal acts and the updates on the website it is the OJ version that prevails."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 26 of 31"}]