Deadline: 30-Jun-25
The Council of Europe is pleased to announce a call for grant applications under its initiative titled “Strengthening the Capacity of Ombudperson’s Office to provide Legal Support to War-affected People in Ukraine”.
Aims
- The Project aims at improving access to justice, human rights protection, and information for the war-affected people in line with Council of Europe standards and good practices in the field.
- In particular, it aims to:
- further improvement of the domestic legal and regulatory framework on remedies and reparations for the waraffected people and documenting of war-related damage, loss, and injury in line with Council of Europe standards and recommendations;
- strengthening judicial protection and facilitating access to legal aid for war-affected people in line with Council of Europe standards and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights;
- enhancing access to non-judicial remedies and administrative redress mechanisms for the war-affected people.
Funding Information
- The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 15,000 EUR (fifteen thousand). The Council of Europe intends to award 1 grant.
- Duration: The implementation period of the projects should start on 01 July 2025 and shall not extend beyond 30 December 2025.
Eligible Projects
- The grants will fund projects designed to:
- strengthen the capacity of the target stakeholder to provide legal support to the war-affected people in Ukraine
- implement rising awareness campaigns on access to rights and remedies for the war-affected people.
- Projects may include but are not limited to:
- organisation of activities and events (workshops, forums, seminars etc.) for staff members and/or Expert councils, working group and other groups created and/or coordinated by the target stakeholder;
- provision of services and consultations to the target stakeholder;
- training of staff members of the target stakeholder;
- provision of office equipment and other supplies to the target stakeholder;
- implementation of awareness raising campaigns, development of information materials and media products to be used by the target stakeholder.
Ineligible Projects
- The following types of action will not be considered:
- Projects/actions providing financial support to third parties (re-granting schemes).
- Projects/actions concerning only or mainly individual scholarships for studies or training courses.
- Projects/actions supporting political parties.
- Projects/actions supporting academic research and/or academic publications.
- Projects/actions concerning trainings of the final beneficiaries, i.e, vulnerable individuals and groups of the war-affected people.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation.
- be entitled to carry out in Ukraine activities described in its project proposal.
- have been active for at least 12 months since its registration in the field of work with the waraffected people in Ukraine.
- 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.
- have a bank account.
Ineligibility Criteria
- 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.
Application Requirements
- Attach the other supporting documents:
- Certificate(s) of registration as a non-profit organisation (in Ukrainian or in English);
- Statute of the organisation (in Ukrainian or in English);
- Bank certificate confirming the existence of the bank account in EUR in the name of the organisation (in Ukrainian or in English);
- Evidence of the organisation’s record and experience in the areas relevant to the call (in Ukrainian or in English);
- CVs of the key staff (up to 5 persons) involved in the implementation of a proposed project (in Ukrainian or in English).
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