2nd Call for Proposals: Divided Past – Joint Future

Deadline: 8 March 2019

Applicants are invited to apply for “Divided Past – Joint Future” which is the project implemented by a consortium of 18 partners (7 IPA beneficiary countries plus Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Netherland).

Project consortium involves CSOs, research institutes, foundations, resources centres and Erasmus NAs and 13 associated business partners.

The competition is announced for the sub-granting of funds within the project “Divided Past Joined Future” funded by European Union, in WB and Turkey (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo – under UNSCR 1244/99, Albania, FYR Macedonia and Turkey). The Call for Proposal is open to support small projects of selected WB and Turkey CSOs, NGOs to enhance respect for diversity and improve inclusive practices with community members and stakeholders through peace building activities.

Objectives

Project intend to contribute to the achievement of Overall objective:
- CSOs recognized by governments as an important societal factor with strong capacity to implement peacebuilding and reconciliation Agenda in the WB and Turkey and contributes to security and stability of the region in the process of EU integration.
Specific objective to be realized within the life spam of the project:
- CSO strengthened regional cooperation and capacities in order to increase credibility, political participation and effectiveness in advocating prevention of radicalization and facilitation of inter-ethnic dialog in the region of WB and Turkey through implementation of cross-stakeholder’s approach that will foster societal reconstruction.

Budget Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 135.480,00.

Estimated budget of the total costs of any project proposal can be up to 7.400 EUR. Please note that any project proposal with estimated budget of the total costs over the defined amount (7.400 EUR) could be rejected.

Activities

Producing and organizing various social events in community to promote and raise awareness of peace building and reconciliation; respect for diversity and inclusive practices;
Conducting a lobbying/advocacy campaign at specific governmental representatives for a single purpose (i.e. a change in a particular piece of legislation or amendments that is relevant to the community life and peace and reconciliation process);
Engaging in discussions, roundtables and negotiations with community decision-makers on peace building and reconciliation, that lead towards improvement of the social and economic life of the individuals in community.
Organizing debates or public meetings or other community activities to promote peace building, and respect for diversity using inclusive social innovation approach.
Improving condition between different stakeholders in community such as business sector and civil society actors in order to find appropriate solutions for respective community problems
Conducting peace-building or inclusive community members activities in the communities enabling community members from diverse backgrounds to socialize and learn together.
Activities that increase tolerance and enhance dialogue and cooperation between different ethnic, cultural or religious communities.

Eligibility Criteria

The following have the right to apply:
- Registered NGOs or CSOs, which are:
  - Legal entities registered in the Business Registers/Court or other relevant body in the one of the countries targeted by the Call (WB and Turkey) where they operate,
  - Have registered organizational bank accounts,
  - Have capacity to implement the proposed action,
  - Have sufficient experience in transparent financial area, professional, organizational, experiential and human potentials that guaranteeing quality project implementation (in cooperation with partners),
  - Not in the process of trade settlement, bankruptcy proceedings, foreclosure, charging or liquidation proceedings.
Applicant must have minimum one partner, either from the public or business sector. In order to propose and find solutions for the problem/s that is addressed by their applications, applicants are strongly encouraged to involve one of the partner/s (business or from public sector) to be a problem solution.
In this regards potential Applicants are required to provide minimum of 10% of the financial contribution included in total budget request. Goods and/or services are not affordable and cannot be a part of yours minimum 10% financial contribution (for the clarification, look at the budget).
Any applicant can submit more than one application, but only one application per CSO or NGO can be granted.