[{"bbox": [86, 148, 403, 176], "category": "Section-header", "text": "(c) Justification of a direct grant"}, {"bbox": [86, 193, 1144, 250], "category": "Text", "text": "The recourse to an award of a grant without a call for proposals is justified because grant beneficiary is the mandated body for the implementation of the Presidential PhD Programme (PPP)."}, {"bbox": [86, 267, 1144, 353], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Research Foundation (NRF) is a government mandated legal public entity under the National Research Foundation Act (No. 23 as amended in 1998) with the exclusive mandate of implementing the Presidential PhD Programme, and therefore a direct award is justified in accordance with article 198 (c) of the Financial Regulation."}, {"bbox": [86, 370, 443, 397], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**4.4.4.2 Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [86, 416, 320, 443], "category": "Section-header", "text": "(a) Purpose of the grant"}, {"bbox": [86, 460, 1144, 631], "category": "Text", "text": "The purpose of this grant is to implement output 1.3 of the action by supporting collaborative activities between Geological Surveys or networks of Geological Surveys, and the Council for Geoscience (CGS), with a focus on the skilling of decision-makers and professionals in the sector as well as the collection, curation, and integration of fundamental geoscience data to develop knowledge-based applied solutions. These solutions will contribute to specific objective 1 addressing Output 1.3 in key areas such as minerals and energy, water and environmental management, land-use planning, and the development, protection, and resilience of critical infrastructure"}, {"bbox": [86, 648, 1144, 792], "category": "Text", "text": "This grant will be specifically embedded in the regional action \"The Pan-African Support to the EuroGeoSurveys – Organisation of African Geological Surveys (EGS-OAGS) Partnership (PanAfGeo)\" aimed at training geoscientific staff from African Geological Surveys. The programme's primary objectives include enhancing African-led geological expertise and skills to support sustainable mineral exploitation, infrastructure development, and natural disaster prevention and mitigation."}, {"bbox": [86, 809, 388, 837], "category": "Section-header", "text": "(b) Type of applicants targeted"}, {"bbox": [86, 854, 1012, 882], "category": "Text", "text": "The targeted applicant may be a research institutions, including geological Surveys or their networks."}, {"bbox": [86, 899, 1144, 1011], "category": "Text", "text": "The part of the action under the budgetary envelope reserved for grants (4.4.1) 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 criteria defined in section 4.4.2 below."}, {"bbox": [86, 1031, 555, 1059], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.2 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity"}, {"bbox": [86, 1072, 1144, 1127], "category": "Text", "text": "Parts of this action (output 1.1) may be implemented in indirect management with an entity, which will be selected by the Commission's services using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [86, 1137, 1144, 1190], "category": "Text", "text": "(i) the entrusted entity has vast expertise in the field of green hydrogen and critical raw materials value-chains in South Africa;"}, {"bbox": [86, 1203, 1090, 1231], "category": "Text", "text": "(ii) the entrusted entity has the operational capacity to implement the activities of this Action at national scale;"}, {"bbox": [86, 1242, 1144, 1324], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation by this entity or entities entails activities related to specific objective 1 such as provision of technical assistance, capacity-building, policy development and/or reform and research, innovation and sustainability."}, {"bbox": [86, 1335, 1005, 1363], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.3 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity (Contribution to the Africa Investment Platform)"}, {"bbox": [86, 1375, 1144, 1430], "category": "Text", "text": "This contribution may be implemented under indirect management with the entities, called Lead Finance Institutions, identified in the appendix 3 to this Action Document."}, {"bbox": [86, 1441, 1144, 1497], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.4 Changes from indirect to direct management mode (and vice versa) due to exceptional circumstances (one alternative second option)"}, {"bbox": [86, 1511, 1144, 1616], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the implementation of the part of the action via direct management through the award of grants as described in section 4.4.1 above cannot succeed due to circumstances outside the Commission's control, the alternative implementation mode will be indirect management with an entrusted entity (pillar-assessed legal entity) as per selection criteria defined above in 4.4.2."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 26 of 31"}]