[{"bbox": [140, 152, 1131, 205], "category": "Text", "text": "The procurement contract may support the beneficiaries to develop attractive and bankable pilot projects and/or support EU in the design and evaluation of the Call(s) for proposals."}, {"bbox": [128, 218, 600, 243], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.3 Contribution to Africa Investment Platform"}, {"bbox": [140, 260, 713, 287], "category": "Text", "text": "**O2: To improve access to green investments for municipalities**"}, {"bbox": [140, 299, 1131, 487], "category": "Text", "text": "This contribution may be implemented under indirect management with the entities, called Lead Finance Institutions, identified in the appendix 2 to this Action Document which will be selected by the Commission's services using the following criteria: (a) experience with smart and environmentally sustainable subnational and urban development projects; (b) ability to mobilise European experiences in water, energy or waste management notably at local/subnational levels; (c) presence in South Africa; (d) ability to deliver sound technical assistance on innovative municipal management solutions that include infrastructure project development experience in different countries in Africa and globally."}, {"bbox": [128, 512, 682, 540], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.4 EFSD+ operations covered by budgetary guarantees"}, {"bbox": [140, 555, 713, 582], "category": "Text", "text": "**O2: To improve access to green investments for municipalities**"}, {"bbox": [140, 594, 1131, 750], "category": "Text", "text": "Outside the scope of the action but complementary to it, guarantees from the EU budget may support access to finance for municipalities or the private sector as relevant. A part of this action may be implemented through budgetary guarantees under indirect management. The budgetary guarantees would fall within the following priority areas of the MIP: PA 1, in particular SO3: Cities and hubs of green and sustainable transformation supported; and PA 2, in particular SO2: Service delivery improved, notably through digital and innovative solutions."}, {"bbox": [140, 765, 693, 792], "category": "Text", "text": "This section 4.3.4 is included for information purposes only."}, {"bbox": [128, 818, 1126, 874], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.5 Changes from indirect to direct management mode (and vice versa) due to exceptional circumstances (one alternative second option)"}, {"bbox": [140, 895, 1131, 1001], "category": "Text", "text": "In case implementation through indirect management cannot take place due to circumstances outside of the Commission's control, the EU Delegation keeps the right to implement the action with one or more organisations not pillar-assessed as alternative implementation modality under direct management modality through grants."}, {"bbox": [128, 1022, 841, 1053], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [140, 1081, 1131, 1162], "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": [140, 1173, 1131, 1280], "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": [128, 1307, 382, 1337], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5 Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [128, 1349, 1140, 1619], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Indicative Budget components</td><td>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</td><td>Third-party contribution, in currency identified</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Implementation modalities – cf. section 4.3</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Objective 1: To improve/enhance the performance / effectiveness and resilience of municipalities composed of</td><td>8 000 000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Procurement (direct management) – cf. section 4.3.2</td><td>8 000 000</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1140, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 20 of 25"}]