Deadline: 19-Jul-20
The Council of Europe has announced a Call for Proposals for Grants to support human rights guarantees in criminal procedure through European standards Human Rights Compliant Criminal Justice System in Ukraine Grants 2020.
The purpose of the Project “Human Rights Compliant Criminal Justice System in Ukraine – Phase I” is to provide assistance to the Ukrainian authorities in ensuring the effective functioning of the criminal justice system in Ukraine in line with European human rights standards.
In particular, it aims to further harmonise the criminal procedure legislation and practice of its implementation in line with Council of Europe standards and best practices as well as to consolidate independence, effectiveness and transparency of the public prosecution service.
General Objective
The grant will fund a project designed to organize 2 days cascade trainings on Criminal ProcedureCode of Ukraine in the Light of European Standards for newly recruited lawyers in the system of free legal aid. The trainings will be based on the preliminary developed methodology which includes the programme and hand-out materials of the event and should be carried out by the pool of pre-selected trainers by the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision (CCLAP) from regions across Ukraine.
Means of Action
Grant Projects shall include:
- number of trainings to be conducted in different parts of Ukraine;
- number of lawyers to be involved (in total and per one training);
- selection criteria for the lawyers to be trained with a focus on diversity (gender, ethnic background);
- number and distribution of regions to be covered by the project;
- available training facilities and technical support;
- description of the organization process of training activities.
Please Note: that the above list is not exhaustive and projects may propose other approaches, in line with the above general objective and the local needs.
Funding Information
The Council of Europe intends to award 1 grant of a maximum amount of UAH 448 800 (four hundred forty-eight thousand eight hundred Hryvnias).
Implementation Period
The implementation period of the projects should start approximately on 20 August 2020 and shall not extend beyond 15 November 2020.
Target Stakeholders
Projects should target in particular the following key stakeholders and target groups:
- CCLAP;
- trainers of the system of free legal aid;
- newly recruited lawyers of the system of free legal aid.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- be legally constituted as a non-governmental non-profit organisation in Ukraine;
- be entitled to carry out in Ukraine activities described in its project proposal (according to its statutory documents);
- have been active for at least past 2 years in the fields of human rights, criminal justice and/or legal aid;
- 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 (either human resources or in-kind contributions);
- have sufficient operational and professional capacity, including staff, to carry out activities described in its project proposal; have a bank account.
For more information, visit https://www.coe.int/en/web/kyiv/-/call-for-proposals-for-co-funding-national-project-aimed-at-supporting-human-rights-guarantees-in-criminal-procedure-through-professional-capacity-bui