Call for Proposals to prevent and combat Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children

Deadline: 15-Jun-21

The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals to Prevent and Combat Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children.

Objectives

To fight violence, including gender-based violence:

• preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls and domestic violence, also by promoting the standards set out in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention);
• preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people, as well as violence against other groups at risk, such as LGBTIQ people and people with disabilities;
• supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of such violence, such as domestic violence exerted within the family or violence in intimate relationships, including children orphaned by domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence.

Themes and Priorities

The themes and priorities of the 2021 call for proposals focus on:

• Early detection, prevention and protection of and/or support to women, children, young people and LGBTIQ victims or potential victims of violence, with specific attention paid to situations emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic
• Preventing gender-based violence by addressing masculinities and the engagement of men and boys

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 17.700.000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%.
  • Early detection, prevention and protection of and/or support to women, children, young people and LGBTIQ victims or potential victims of violence, with specific attention paid to situations emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic: EUR 13 475 300
  • Preventing gender-based violence by addressing masculinities and the engagement of men and boys: EUR 4 224 700
• Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

• Awareness-raising and empowerment activities;
• Capacity-building and training for professionals;
• Design and implementation of protocols, development of working methods and tools, coordination platform and groups;
• Exchange of good practices, mutual learning;
• Creation and implementation of data collection strategies and systems;
• Establishing or strengthening existing support mechanisms;
• Evaluating lessons learned from Covid-19 situation in the context of its impact on the well-being of children and the functioning of the support systems;
• In cooperation with children, designing, establishing and/or strengthening protocols and mechanisms providing support to children mostly affected by the Covid-19 situation. The protocols should take into account the gender perspective when appropriate;
• Establishing national, local, regional support centres, including in schools;
• Based on the children’s input and in cooperation with children, build capacity of relevant professionals (e.g. teachers, psychotherapists, educators, medical staff), design and test or roll out existing training activities, design and implement or adapt existing information campaigns for relevant staff, including sharing good practices.

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  • non-EU countries:
    • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the CERV Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
• other eligibility conditions:
  • the project can be either national or transnational;
  • the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
  • the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75.000;
  • organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations.

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