Deadline: 04-Mar-22
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs opens a call for proposals for project support for Finnish CSOs’ development cooperation projects for 2023–2026.
The support is granted from the development cooperation appropriations for Finnish CSOs’ development cooperation.
In accordance with the Description of project support, project support for Finnish civil society organisations (CSOs) is an important form of civil society’s development cooperation and part of the implementation of Finland’s development policy. CSOs engaged in development cooperation projects enhance the diversity and impact of Finland’s development cooperation in developing countries around the world through their own fields of expertise and practices.
Project support can be applied for development cooperation projects that meet the criteria of the call for proposals. Organisations can also apply for a grant to continue projects that have been previously supported. Project support is granted only for the projects’ operational phase, including evaluations carried out during the funding period. Project support is granted for a fixed term.
Funding Information
Provisionally, approximately EUR 21 million will be allocated during this application round for use in 2023–2026.
Minimum Requirements
- A discretionary government grant can be awarded to an association or foundation registered in Finland which has been registered for at least two years by the date of the opening of the application process.
- The application contains all the aforementioned mandatory appendices.
- The project promotes at least one of Finland’s four development policy priorities: strengthening the status and rights of women and girls; strengthening the economic base of developing countries and creating jobs; education and peaceful democratic societies; climate change and natural resources.
- The application presents the required share of self-financing in accordance with the general conditions for the use of discretionary government grants and the additional conditions for project support.
- The project is carried out in a developing country/developing countries, listed among ODA recipients by the OECD Development Assistance Committee DAC.
- The project has a local partner with whom the applicant has concluded a letter of intent for the implementation of the project.
- The project strengthens the local civil society in accordance with the Guidelines for Civil Society in Development Policy (2017).
- The project is at minimum human rights sensitive as defined in the Human rights-based approach to development – general guidelines (2015) of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
- In the application, the applicant has indicated its readiness to fulfil the do no harm principle, stated as the minimum level of the cross-cutting objectives in the Finnish development policy and cooperation (gender equality, non-discrimination, disability inclusion, climate resilience, low-emission development).
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