PROGRAMME → PRACTICE
AU-ECOSOCC digital engagement: the original application package
Read the 2023–2024 call, recover its three original files and plan an audience engagement project with clear deliverables.
- Research the audience
- Test messages and channels
- Pilot an engagement strategy
- Review feedback and decisions
What the original documents establish
The guidelines are dated 19 December 2023. They set a total call budget of EUR 30,000, an approximately five-month implementation period and a submission deadline of 31 January 2024 at 23:59 East Africa Time. The indicative implementation window was April–August 2024. These are historical conditions. The listing’s December date does not replace the deadline in the guidelines.
Who the call was designed for
Applicants had to be independent legal entities registered in an African Union member state, committed to civic participation and able to enter a grant agreement. Both nonprofit and for-profit organisations could be considered. The documents also required ethical management of personal information and relevant organisational capacity. Read the complete eligibility section before using this call as a model.
What each file contributes
The PDF explains the priorities, eligibility, costs and selection process. The DOCX asks for organisational information, methods, outputs, work plan and capacity. The XLSX separates human resources, travel, equipment, office and other costs. These are blank historical templates; downloading them does not submit an application or establish a new funding entitlement.
Build a delivery chain
Start with an audience whose information needs are poorly understood. Specify how you will recruit participants and protect their data. Turn the findings into message and channel tests, then a small engagement pilot. Name the person who will receive feedback, the decision they can change and the evidence they will report. Keep dissemination counts separate from a demonstrated institutional response.
Original source files
Historical source documents in English, provided unchanged. These pages are new editorial readers, not verbatim reproductions of the original announcements.
- AU-ECOSOCC / Guidelines / 19 December 2023 / 16 pages
Download PDF ↓ · Publisher’s copy ↗ - AU-ECOSOCC / Application template / 2023–2024
Download DOCX ↓ · Publisher’s copy ↗ - AU-ECOSOCC / Budget template / 2023–2024
Download XLSX ↓ · Publisher’s copy ↗
Try the method
Working example: a community network tests whether translated audio summaries make a consultation easier to understand. It records comprehension and unanswered questions, assigns a response owner and revises the next summary. This is a design example, not a reported result of the ECOSOCC grant.
- Audience and access need
- Research or test
- Expected deliverable
- Feedback owner and decision
Check a draft against the source form’s word limits
Approximate word count; compare with the original instructions. This tool does not submit a form, validate eligibility or reopen the call.
Sources and provenance
Read a budget row without reopening the call
The original AU-ECOSOCC budget template separates unit, number of units, unit value and total. Use that structure to expose assumptions. The worked row below is fictional and does not establish an eligible cost or a new application opportunity.
- Keep the guidelines dated 19 December 2023 beside the original budget template. The 31 January 2024 deadline and the April–August 2024 indicative implementation period retain their dates.
- Write the quantity and unit before entering a total. A person-month is not the same as a month for the whole team.
- Separate arithmetic from eligibility. Match the proposed cost to the original guidelines and retain an unresolved status until the relevant rule is checked.
- Reconcile each subtotal and the grand total, including any currencies and tax treatment. Do not read the EUR 30,000 overall call budget as an automatic entitlement for an individual proposal.
| Field | Example or check |
|---|---|
| Fictional human-resources row | Two facilitators × 2 months = 4 person-months. At EUR 600 per person-month, the row total is EUR 2,400. |
| Cross-check | 4 × 600 = 2,400; writing “2 months × 600” would omit one facilitator. |
| Rule check | Purpose, necessity, period, supporting evidence and eligibility still need checking against the 2023 guidelines. Correct multiplication does not approve the expense. |
| No current offer | The example does not reopen the 2024 call or set a 2026 grant budget. Use a current issuer’s complete rules for any new application. |
| Blank row | Description/justification __; unit __; quantity __; unit price EUR __; total EUR __; guideline reference __; status __; evidence __. |
Keep the unchanged source template as evidence of its structure; this editorial example belongs in a separate working copy.