[{"bbox": [141, 154, 378, 179], "category": "Section-header", "text": "a) Purpose of the grants"}, {"bbox": [141, 180, 752, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "Grant(s) will also be used to achieve outputs related to Outcome 3."}, {"bbox": [148, 233, 450, 259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "(b) Type of applicants targeted"}, {"bbox": [141, 260, 1132, 309], "category": "Text", "text": "With regard to Outcome 3, type of targeted applicants are public entities/bodies which have a legal mandate to:"}, {"bbox": [178, 313, 1132, 364], "category": "List-item", "text": "- promote, encourage, attract, facilitate, monitor, and evaluate all forms of investments and business activities in Sierra Leone;"}, {"bbox": [178, 365, 1132, 419], "category": "List-item", "text": "- initiate and support measures that will enhance the investment climate in Sierra Leone for both domestic and foreign investment;"}, {"bbox": [178, 419, 1132, 469], "category": "List-item", "text": "- collect, collate, analyse and disseminate investment opportunities and sources of investment capital, incentives available to investors and the investment climate."}, {"bbox": [141, 510, 1132, 590], "category": "Text", "text": "The part of the action under the budgetary envelope reserved for grants may, partially or totally and including where an entity is designated for receiving a grant without a call for proposals, be implemented in indirect management with an entity, which will be selected by the Commission's services using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [178, 603, 1132, 655], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Demonstrated experience in the design, development and implementation of business environment reforms;"}, {"bbox": [178, 668, 1132, 722], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Demonstrated experience in supporting developing countries to update their investment legal frameworks and business regulations;"}, {"bbox": [178, 733, 1132, 787], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Demonstrated experience in supporting institutional capacity building, in particular in the area of doing business;"}, {"bbox": [178, 799, 903, 827], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Demonstrated experience in investment promotion in developing countries."}, {"bbox": [129, 852, 526, 878], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.2 Direct Management (Procurement)"}, {"bbox": [141, 895, 1132, 945], "category": "Text", "text": "The procurement would contribute in achieving outputs related to Outcome 1 (Competitiveness of local MSMEs) and Outcome 3 (Business environment institutional reforms)."}, {"bbox": [141, 973, 1132, 1130], "category": "Text", "text": "Tender(s) for contract(s) to provide technical assistance for institutional capacity building, monitoring and evaluation of all activities under the outcomes 1 and 3 will be provided in order to ensure that the implementing partners are using appropriate methods and tools to execute the required activities and deliver accurate reporting about the achieved results. The aim of this TA is also to create a pool of local and international experts who are going to be mobilised depending on the needs of the implementing partners and the national authorities."}, {"bbox": [129, 1147, 623, 1173], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.3 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity"}, {"bbox": [141, 1201, 1132, 1308], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with competent entities, such as United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). This implementation entails all outputs and indicative activities under Outcome 2 (National Quality System and trade competitiveness). The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [178, 1320, 1132, 1559], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Technical expertise and experience in quality infrastructure and value chains' development: the entrusted entity/ies should be able to improve the national quality infrastructure and building operational capacities of Sierra Leone Standards Bureau (SLSB) to implement ISO 17021 for certification bodies and ISO 17025 for testing and calibrations laboratories. The entrusted entity/ies should manage to support the establishment of The Management System Certification Body (MSCB) which would reduce costs for private sector and enable companies to expand their markets. It is also key for this entity/ies to have a solid expertise and knowledge in supporting MSMEs in cocoa, palm oil and cassava value chains in terms of implementing quality standards and Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) as well as increasing their productivity."}, {"bbox": [178, 1571, 1132, 1624], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Solid experience with the EU's development assistance: It is key to have an entity/ies that can improve the quality infrastructure (QI) and a culture of quality in Sierra Leone. The entity/ies should"}, {"bbox": [1015, 1679, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 20 of 24"}]