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ECNL announces CFPs to Support Advocacy for the Right to Free Assembly in the Balkans and the Eastern Partnership Region

Call for Applications: 2023 Human Rights Fund in Romania

Deadline: 10 April 2020

The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) has announced a call for proposals to support national advocacy actions on the right to free assembly in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, and Ukraine.

The right to free and peaceful assembly is an indispensable element of democracy and a healthy civil society. Recent years have seen a new era of mass protests, but also an increase in practical restrictions to the right in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries. Under its Monitoring the Right to Free Assembly project, ECNL supports its informal network of local partners to monitor local laws, observe protests, research emerging issues and report and take action against legal and practical challenges affecting the freedom of assembly.

In 2020, to support local partners engage in research and action that advances legal reform processes and improves existing practices, ECNL is inviting proposals from applicants who would like to engage in national advocacy actions designed to promote and protect the freedom of assembly in their countries.

ECNL is particularly interested in proposals that include outreach to a broader range of stakeholders (i.e. judges, members of Parliaments, Ombudsman or other national human rights institutions municipalities, women and youth) and/or aim to identify emerging areas affecting assembly rights in the given countries, such as use of new technologies, impact on climate activism, social movements or civil disobedience. They strongly encourage applicants to apply with innovative ideas and approaches that will increase understating of existing and new trends and help formulate action to protect the freedom.

Examples of activities that could be supported under this program include:

The following activities will not be supported under the current program:

Funding Information

Grant amounts are not fixed, but successful grant applications may range up to $10,000.

Eligibility Criteria

This call is open to domestic civil society organizations working at the national or sub-national level in one of these countries: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Ukraine. The action should be designed with a combination of activities to achieve the results.

Selection Criteria

Applications will be evaluated based on the following factors:

For more information, visit https://ecnl.org/call-for-grant-proposals/

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