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MIG-RIGHT: supporting and advocating Cambodian migrants’ rights in Thailand, preventing violations and human trafficking (EIDHR/2016/376-943)

WEWORLD-GVC SMALL FINANCIAL SUPPORT SCHEME

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

WeWorld-GVC in partnership with its local counterparts in Cambodia, Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW), and in Thailand, Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN) is seeking applications from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Social enterprises (SEs), communication agencies and other private companies to design and implement an outreach campaign to combat human trafficking and labour exploitation in Cambodia and Thailand.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

The following guidelines provide an overview of the application process and procedures for interested applicants to the WeWorld-GVC Small Financial Support Scheme.

1. BACKGROUND

Despite its fast-expanding economy and a significant poverty reduction in the past decade, Cambodia remains one of the world’s poorest countries. 35% of Cambodians are still living in poverty, according to estimates from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Lack of job opportunities, debts and dependence on micro-finance institutions are some of the push factors that drive Cambodians to migrate within the country and outside its borders in order to find a better-paid job. More than 1.2 million of Khmer are working overseas. Due to a significant labour shortage, Thailand remains the main destination country for over 92%1 of Cambodian workers, of which 73%2 using irregular channels and without legal documents.

Despite the efforts made by Cambodian and Thai Governments, women and men migrant workers are still subjected to abuses and exploitation and, in most dramatic cases, they are victims of human trafficking.

Potential migrants are misinformed of the risks and dangers they may face abroad and they are not aware of their rights. Especially, in rural areas, where 80% of the population lives and where the literacy rate is lower than in cities, this lack of information creates unrealistic expectations about salary and working conditions.

This may lead to risky outcomes such as exploitation and human trafficking, particularly in the high exploitative industry, such as fishery, construction and agriculture. There are many reported cases of migrants locked inside Thai seafood and fish factories in dormitories built inside the factory area, obliged to live in slavery, in demeaning conditions without even the

1 (1) Announcement of the implementation of the Strategic Plan for the Development of Labor and Vocational Training for

2019-2023, MoLVT 2019. 2 IOM-ILO, Risks and rewards: Outcomes of labour migration in South-East Asia, 2017


possibility to leave or go out and at risk of abuse by other migrants (especially for women and girls).

Since 2014, WeWorld-GVC has been working to raise awareness of potential migrants and country’s authorities on the risks of irregular migration and promote safe migration practices mainly from Cambodia to Thailand, which is the primary country of destination.

Through the MIG-RIGHT Project (EIDHR/2016/376-943), WeWorld-GVC pursues its efforts to prevent and eradicate human rights violations against migrants, raising awareness and giving visibility to human trafficking and exploitation cases at local, national and international level. This will be achieved by strengthening the capacities, the role and influence of CSOs in right-watching and migrant information, support the authorities’ capacity in improving and enforcing the law and by improving the access to justice.

In this context, WeWorld-GVC is looking for partnerships to support the advocacy and communication activities, for an efficient implementation of the MIG-RIGHT initiative, whose key messages are: “RIGHTS, RESPECT, DIGNITY”.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE CAMPAIGN

WeWorld-GVC seeks to build a communication campaign, which, based on real stories of migrants and left behind, enables the dissemination of information on safe migration to a wider public using innovative and cost-effective tools such as social media and other available online instruments.

The scope of the outreach campaign will be:

▪ To increase awareness among Cambodian migrant workers and potential ones,

authorities in Cambodia and Thailand and general public about labour and migrants

rights, human trafficking, promoting safe migration and strengthening the action

against abuses and exploitation.

To that end, WeWorld-GVC wants to build the campaign around real cases tackling two separate issues:

1. Human trafficking in fishing boats, fishing and seafood industries (including the children working in this sector);

2. Integration into the society of migrants and access to justice (barrier of languages, discrimination, arbitrary detention in prisons, etc.).

Actions under this Call for Proposals should focus on the two above selected topics to promote and support activities and mechanisms, which raise the issues of human trafficking and unsafe migration in order to achieve a broader understanding amongst Cambodia, Thailand and ASEAN countries’ citizens.


3. TARGET AUDIENCE

The campaign should be designed and implemented to reach at least 750,000 people among the three target groups:

▪ Cambodian victims of human trafficking and labour exploitation, migrants,

potential migrants and their families in Cambodia and in Thailand (including young

people of 15-25 years old).

Cambodian migrants working in Thailand are extremely vulnerable to trafficking and

many other forms of exploitations, which can start even from their own villages: fake

representatives of recruitment agencies go house by house promising jobs and legal

documents until they return back home. Men and women are vulnerable to trafficking

due to their lack of protection, while many see migration as their best chance of

obtaining work and escaping poverty. Due to the low education levels and

misinformation, migrants often become dependent on their recruiter or broker, to

whom they can become indebted. When they arrive in the destination country, they

have no support system, assistance or knowledge about where to find help, and

consequentially are exposed to manipulation and exploitation.

Cambodian migrants mainly work in agricultural activities, fishing and seafood

industries and construction sites. Women that work in household services are

extremely vulnerable because of isolation, dependence on employers for food and

shelter, lack of control over their money, poor access to health services, curtailment

of freedom of movement and association, ignorance over their rights, confiscation of

important documents and risk of labour bondage, trafficking, or abuse. Migrants’

family members left behind, such as children and grandparents are concerned with

an unclear living and working conditions of their family members in Thailand.

Children of migrants, youth migrants and child victims often lack formal education,

and due to the abuse they have faced, they become at risk of becoming potential

abusers or traffickers themselves. Particular attention will be put to the migrant

children working in the fishing and seafood processing industry. Children are forced

to work for peeling, carving and washing seafood in support of their parents, who

usually work in the same factory. Child labour practice within this industry has started

in the mid-1990s and most of them are around 15 years old.

▪ Politicians at national and ASEAN level, governmental institutions and representatives of the Royal Government of Cambodia and of the Kingdom of Thailand, including local authorities of the 5 targeted provinces.


Although anti-trafficking and migration labour policies and guidelines have been finalized and human rights treaties ratified, Governmental institutions of both countries, lawmakers at national and ASEAN level need to increase knowledge of the challenges and risk migrants face. Moreover, despite the efforts of both Cambodian and Thai governments to tackle irregular cross-border labour migration with MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) and domestic legislations, there is a need to improve public officials’ capacity to enforce the legislative framework and strengthen protection mechanisms for migrant workers.

▪ ASEAN and European citizens, stakeholders, decision-makers, CSOs and NGOs working in the field of human trafficking and migration.

This campaign seeks to reach different groups of people who are normally very difficult to reach with traditional project activities, such as Cambodian, Thai and ASEAN citizens who normally do not deal/work in the human rights/human trafficking field. It aims to reach European citizens and NGOs to increase the visibility of human trafficking and unsafe migration of Cambodian migrant in Thailand. CSOs and NGOs working in the field of human trafficking, migration and labour in Cambodia and Thailand are the main sources of information and assistance for migrants and their families and their role is crucial to support in raising awareness and disseminating information on the issues of human trafficking and labour exploitation. However, NGOs and CSOs often lack proper instruments and knowledge to recognize exploitation cases, create a conducive environment to prevent and inform migrants and promote their inclusion in the destination country, advocate at local, national and ASEAN level. Furthermore, actors operating at grass root level do not have national influence and those operating at national level have difficulties answering to the real needs of final beneficiaries.

This campaign aims also at strengthening the capacities, the role and influence of CSOs/NGOs in right-watching and migrant information, also improving the access to justice. Therefore, the awareness campaign is focused on risks and hazards related to irregular migration from Cambodia to Thailand. Exchange of information from local to a regional level and vice-versa and horizontal exchange towards participatory processes, involving different stakeholders, will be reinforced, increasing awareness.

4. CONTENT AND ACTIVITIES

The campaign will be set up starting from the personal stories of the Social Ambassadors and will communicate and spread information to a wider public using innovative and cost-effective tools such as social media and other available online instruments.

Thanks to previous experiences, it has been verified how effective the direct involvement of migrants in advocacy and awareness activities is. The dissemination of the Social Ambassadors’ stories through a media will give the opportunity to reach a wider audience both in Asia and in Europe. The recent attention from the European media and Institutions


around the working conditions in Thai fishing and seafood industries – whose cheap products are exported in the European Market - brought up the fact that many European consumers are eating slave-made products. Thanks to specific awareness activities, civil society and the general public in Cambodia, Thailand, ASEAN countries and Europe will be more informed about this problem and give a contribution to push for changes in the ways Thai industries use labour force from its poorer neighbour countries.

This Call for Proposals is divided into two (2) lots based on the objective outlined above:

LOT Definition Indicative activities

1

In the framework of the Objective of the Campaign this lot aim specifically:

To increase awareness among migrants, potential migrants and their families on their rights, promoting safe migration through a participative and creative method, facilitating an effective and risk-free exchange of information and rights watch and empowering CSOs/NGOs capacities.

Assessment and dissemination of the existing channels (Facebook ®, Messengers ®, etc.) or other innovative tools that allow the exchange of information, communication and rights-watch among migrants. Particular attention will be put on media/tools that guarantee the protection of sensitive data and are risk-free for users.

Elaborate and implement a communication/information plan to share the assessment results to migrants on the most current and relevant channels.

Dissemination of real stories based on cases of human trafficking and exploitation of migrants.

Digital/innovative content campaigns using web series/spot, videos, based on Social Ambassadors, diffusion via social media, blogs, display ads and sponsorship to capture target group attention list.

Communication training for Social Ambassadors.

Cultural events: use of theatre, music, dance and modern arts to tell Cambodian migrants workers stories.

Public/participative events (i.e. workshops and creative ateliers, gatherings, village fair, etc.) together with other NGOs working on the inclusion of people left behind, on labour exploitation, trafficking and migrants’ rights.

Photography/storytelling exhibition about people’s migration experience.

Local TV and radio spots.

CSOs and NGOs capacity building in right-watch and communication/awareness-raising activities. A practical action of awareness-raising in the field should be implemented as part of the training by the trained CSOs/NGOs.


LOT Definition Indicative activities

2

In the framework of the Objective of the Campaign this lot aim specifically:

To increase awareness among authorities and the general public in Cambodia and Thailand, ASEAN and European's citizens, stakeholders and decision-makers about labour and migrants rights violations and human trafficking, to influence private sectors and politicians on the need to regulate fisheries, construction and agriculture's industries and build consumers’ consciousness.

Development, implementation and update of the web-platform Migra-Info.org and Migra-Info Facebook page and its integration and coordination with other social media used by Project Partners (PPs), through a long-term strategy to increase its visibility.

Dissemination of real stories and other contents elaborated through field campaign activities and/or provided by WeWorld-GVC and its partners, using an appropriate and consistent format giving visibility to human trafficking and exploitation cases at local, national and regional level.

Citizens' initiatives and media tools (i.e. TV and radio spots, press conferences, online petitions, social media, etc.).

A call to action to strengthen consumers’ consciousness to influence the private sector into enforcing labour regulations.

This list of activities is not exhaustive and is provided for indicative purposes only. Not necessarily all have to be done and additional activities can be proposed. The applicant(s) should submit a customized proposal (see Annex III and Annex IV) with clearly stated:

Objectives Expected results Activities Means of communication Indicators Target group Timeframe Budget

Communication projects developed with a participative approach that facilitates an active learning and public engagement will be preferred.

Content and relevant project information will be made available by WeWorld-GVC and its partners to support the communication activities.

The means of communication to be considered for the dissemination of the campaign are the following:

Online media (storytelling, social media campaign on various platforms);

Broadcast media (radio, TV, mobile phones);

Visual arts (theatre, music, dance and modern arts);

Print media (international, national and local press) with the publication of press releases or feature articles.


The campaign will use and develop existing communication tools and media:

Migra-info.org platform (www.migra-info.org)

Migra-info Facebook page

Project’s partners’ communication tools (websites and Facebook pages)

5. FINANCIAL ALLOCATION

The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 45,000.00

with the following breakdown of costs:

LOT 1: maximum amount of EUR 22,500.00

LOT 2: maximum amount of EUR 22,500.00

The amount allocated to each lot is intended for proposals which include activities in both countries (Cambodia and Thailand). If the activities proposed focus only on one country, the total amount allocated to the successful candidate will be decreased.

The budget repartition among the lots is indicative and remains flexible. Modifications between the two lots can occur to adapt better to the offers submitted by awarded applicants. Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals should range between EUR 10,000.00 and EUR 22,500.00 and can be financed up to the 100% of the total eligible costs of the action.

Co-financed Proposal is encouraged. The balance could be provided by the applicant own resources or resources raised from the community. In order to encourage cofounding, in-kind contributions are accepted.

6. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Applicants, which may request a grant, are:

For LOT 1 and2: priority will be given to officially registered Non-Profit Organization -NGOs and/or CSOs and/or Cultural Centers in Cambodia and/or Thailand, however the call for proposal will also be open to communication agencies, profit organizations/social enterprises and Web Application Development companies which demonstrate to have experience in communication campaigns activities on human rights and respect of the Cambodian and Thai Law on work and main international standard.

Applicants are encouraged to integrate creative, innovative and cost-effective solutions to their proposals. Multiple channels and IT-based platforms will contribute to reach a wider range of people in addition to the target groups as mentioned above (i.e. citizens who normally do not deal/work in the human rights/human trafficking field, politicians and national and ASEAN governmental institutions and networks, European citizens and NGOs) to increase the visibility of human trafficking and unsafe migration in Cambodia worldwide.

http://www.migra-info.org/


Each applicant can submit only one (1) proposal applying for one or both lots.

In order to be eligible for the sub-grant, applicants must prove that:

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Score

Legal person(s) /entity(ies) registered in Cambodia and/or Thailand (provide copy of registration documents and statute)

YES NO

Be officially registered Non-Profit Organization NGOs and/or CSOs and/or Cultural Centers in Cambodia and/or Thailand, Profit organizations/ social enterprises which demonstrate to have experience in communication campaigns activities on human rights and respect of the Cambodian and Thai Law on work and main international standard

YES NO

Respect of eligibility/administrative criteria and compliance with the submission deadline

YES NO

Provide evidence of management capacity; including financial management (provide a balance sheet of the last 3 years, staff members and organigram, etc.)

YES NO

A minimum of 3-year proved experiences in communication campaign activities on human rights/ production innovative tools/ private fundraising and sustainability strategy in Cambodia Thailand or other South-East Asian countries

YES NO

At least 1 proved experience in engaging wider public and Local and National Authorities in Cambodia and/or Thailand

YES NO

At least 1 proved experience with community-oriented outreach and/or strategies that include the community perspective YES NO

Excellent drafting capacities in English and Khmer and/or Thai languages

YES NO

Only the applicants which satisfied the eligibility criteria will have access to continue the selection process.


7. ELIGIBILITY ACTIONS

Duration of the Project: project activities have to be concluded not later than 31/07/2019.

Location: Activities must take place in Cambodia in the provinces of Siem Reap, Battambang and Koh Kong and in Thailand in the provinces of Samut Prakarn and Trat. Activities with a nation-wide impact are desirable. As stated above, if the activities proposed focus only on one country, each lot’s total amount allocated to the successful candidate will be proportionally decreased.

Visibility: The visibility of the initiative will be promoted in accordance with the provision of the Project MIG-RIGHT in order to guarantee the visibility of the EU financing. Therefore, in this framework, the Grant recipient must accept and follow specific indications provided by WeWorld-GVC.

Eligible costs: The budget is both a cost estimate and a ceiling for "eligible costs". Recommendations to award a grant are always subject to the condition that the checking process, which precedes the signing of the contract, does not reveal problems requiring changes to the budget (for instance arithmetical errors, inaccuracies or unrealistic costs and other ineligible costs). The checks may give rise to requests for clarification and may lead to request modifications or reductions to address such mistakes or inaccuracies. The amount of the grant because of these corrections may not be increased.

Costs must comply with realistic and cost-effective budget and the list of eligible cost as per Annex I.

8. HOW TO APPLY AND THE PROCEDURES TO FOLLOW

Applications must be submitted in accordance with the following instructions:

The Project Proposal (and annexed documents) must be elaborated in English using the format provided in Annex III and must contain the main elements that allow the commission to evaluate the proposal according to the evaluation grid as per chapter 9.

Three reference contacts must be listed in the Project Proposal submitted by the Applicant within the proposal but in a separate envelope.

The Project Proposal has to be signed by the legal representative of the organization and stamped.

Each applicant cannot present more than one proposal. However, the same applicant can apply for both lot through the same proposal.

Project Proposal must be submitted in hard and soft copies, in a sealed envelope by registered mail, private courier service or by hand delivery (a signed and dated certificate of receipt will be given to the deliverer) at the addresses below:


The deadline for the submission of Small Financial Support Scheme Project Proposal is Monday 13 January 2020 at 04:00 pm (local time) as evidenced by the signed and dated receipt. Any Proposal submitted after the deadline will automatically be rejected.

Extension to the deadline can be done by written corrigendum notice to this Call for Proposal.

Further information for this Call for Proposal can be requested to the WeWorld-GVC Project management at WeWorld-GVC office or at the following email address: [email protected] and [email protected]

9. EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF APPLICATIONS

The Small Financial Support Scheme Call for Proposal mechanism follows the awarding criteria on a first come first served basis for each Project submitted and complying with the relevance to the Call.

Applications will be examined and evaluated by the Small Financial Support Scheme Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (SFSCMC), composed by 2 WeWorld-GVC representatives, 1 LSCW representative, 1 LPN representative, an international expert in communication.

After the submission of all applications, the Committee may contact applicants for further information and clarification.

Within 20 days after receiving the proposals, the Committee will proceed with:

▪ the administrative check of the official registration of the applicant to the official offices/registers in compliance with Cambodian and/or Thai law;

▪ the evaluation of the Project Proposal according to the following Evaluation Grid:

The evaluation criteria are divided into headings and sub-headings. Each sub-heading will be given a score between 0 and 5 in accordance with the following assessment categories: 0 = null; 1 = very poor; 2 = poor; 3 = adequate; 4 = good; 5 = very good. The maximum score from each evaluator is 100 points. The minimum score to access the following phase of selection is 50 points.

For Thailand:

GVC G Tower, Level 32, Room No.3212, 9 Rama 9 Road, Huaykwang District, Huaykwang, 10310 Bangkok, Thailand

For Cambodia:

WeWorld-GVC Onlus Group 1, Sala Lodge Road 312, Sangkat Salakamreuk, Siem Reap, Cambodia

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


EVALUATION GRID Score

A. Design of the Action and Approach

Does the proposed action take into account external factors and potential risks?

0-5

Does the proposed action take into account innovative and cost-effective activities?

0-5

Is the target number of beneficiaries clearly stated, realistic and coherent? Does the project target different type of beneficiaries, actors and stakeholders?

0-5

Is the approach in line with the values, the mission and the communication chart of WeWorld-GVC?

0-5

B. Relevance

How relevant is the proposal to the objectives and priorities of the Call for Proposals?

0-5

How relevant are the targeted groups and the public to proposals objectives?

0-5

How relevant is the proposed action at the local, national and international level?

0-5

C. Effectiveness and Feasibility

Are the activities proposed appropriate, practical, and consistent with the objectives and expected results? 0-5

Is the action plan clear and feasible? 0-5

D. Sustainability

Is the proposed action taking into consideration the sustainability aspect of the project?

0-5

Is the proposed action likely to have a tangible impact on its target groups?

0-5

Is the proposal likely to have multiplier effects? (e.g. scope for replication)

0-5

E. Timeline and Schedule

Does the project have a rational timeframe and is it in a relevant place to be implemented?

0-5

F. Budget

Are the activities appropriately reflected in the budget? 0-5

Is the ratio between the estimated costs and the expected results reasonable?

0-5

Is the proposal creative and original? 0-5


G. Communication impact

Does the proposed action contain the use of innovative communication and/or advocacy tools?

0-5

H. Applicant experience

and capacity

Does the applicant have a proven record of campaigns on social or human-right related issues and/or a record of implementation of visibility and multimedia campaigns?

0-5

Does the applicant have the capacity to implement the activity (ies)?

0-5

Does the applicant organization have relevant record of project management capacities (staff, equipment, ability to handle the budget for action)?

0-5

Maximum score of Proposals 100

▪ Operational capacity will be verified based on advice expressed by the reference persons listed in the Project Proposal submitted by the Applicant.

▪ the notification to the Applicant of the evaluation result will be by the means of a written letter delivered through a sealed envelope by registered mail, private courier service or by hand delivery (a signed and dated certificate of receipt will be collected by to the receiver).

▪ In case of a positive result of the evaluation, the Committee will contact the awarding Applicant and an Agreement for the Small Grant Project Management, times, funds delivering and mechanism of control will be signed by the Parties.

Summary of the process and estimated time frame

Launching the proposal 17/12/2019

Application deadline 13/01/2020

Selection stage 13-17/01/2020

Information to applicant(s) and signature of the Agreement

20-22/01/2020

Preparation, submission and approval of the campaign

23-24/01/2020

Implementation and follow up January-July 2020


10. ENCLOSURE(S)

▪ Annex I: Eligible costs

▪ Annex II: Applicant info sheet

▪ Annex III: Description of the Action

▪ Annex IV: Budget Template

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