Deadline: 07-Jun-2024
The Council of Europe project “Promoting Gender Equality in Ukraine” is launching a call for proposals for grants for civil society organizations working in Ukraine.
Objectives
- The grants will fund projects designed to support awareness raising initiatives relating to different areas if gender knowledge; the Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2024-2029 in its entirety; or focused on specific elements of the strategy including gender mainstreaming; intersectional discrimination; work/life balance; gender pay gap; gender inclusive budgeting etc. among civil servants, media and general public at the regional and local level.
- Gender equality is central to the protection of human rights, the functioning of democracy, respect for the rule of law, and social well-being. Gender equality is an important policy goal of the Council of Europe. Priority areas are defined by the Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2024-2029. The Strategy is structured around six objectives:
- Preventing and combating gender stereotypes and sexism
- Preventing and combating violence against women and girls and domestic violence
- Ensuring women’s equal access to justice
- Achieving a balanced participation of women and men in political, public, social, and economic life
- Ensuring women’s empowerment and gender equality in relation to global and geopolitical challenges
- Achieving gender mainstreaming and including an intersectional approach in all policies and measures
Further to the general objective, preference will be given to:
- Projects/actions promoting the Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy;
- Projects/actions proposed by women`s rights NGOs in partnership with local authorities or gender-related coordinators/Gender Advisers or other women`s rights NGOs;
- Projects/actions contributing to the diversity of NGO Grants in Ukraine.
Funding Information
- The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 45 000 EUR (Forty-five thousand Euros).
- The Council of Europe intends to award 3 (three) grants of a maximum amount of 15 000 EUR (Fifteen thousand Euros) each.
Implementation Period
- The implementation period of the projects should start on 17 July 2024 and shall not extend beyond.
- Narrative and financial reports shall be submitted by 20 January 2025 at the latest.
Target Stakeholders
- Projects should target in particular the following key stakeholders:
- General public, media, local/regional authorities, representatives of self-governance bodies in the territorial communities, gender advisers, gender related coordinators.
- The above list is not exhaustive and projects may propose to target other relevant stakeholders, while keeping in mind the general objective of the Project.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation in Ukraine;
- be entitled to carry out in Ukraine activities described in its project proposal;
- have been active for at least 3 (three) years in the field of gender equality and gender mainstreaming;
- have sufficient financial capacity (stable and sufficient sources of funding) to maintain its activity throughout the period for which the grant is awarded and to participate by way of its own resources (including human resources or in-kind contributions);
- have sufficient operational and professional capacity, including staff, to carry out activities described in its project proposal.
- Multiple applications are not allowed and shall lead to the exclusion of all applications concerned.
Ineligible
- Applicants shall be excluded from the grant award procedure where they or, in the case of legal persons, their owner(s) or executive officer(s):
- have been sentenced by final judgment on one or more of the following charges: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activities, child labour or trafficking in human beings;
- are in a situation of bankruptcy, liquidation, termination of activity, insolvency or arrangement with creditors or any like situation arising from a procedure of the same kind, or are subject to a procedure of the same kind;
- have received a judgement with res judicata force, finding an offence that affects their professional integrity or constitutes a serious professional misconduct;
- do not comply with their obligations as regards payment of social security contributions, taxes and dues, according to the statutory provisions of the country where they are established;
- are an entity created to circumvent tax, social or other legal obligations (empty shell company), have ever created or are in the process of creation of such an entity;
- have been involved in mismanagement of the Council of Europe funds or public funds.
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