Deadline: 31-Jan-25
The Council of Europe has launched its Grant for CSO’s on conducting a first-time voters’ Education Programme.
This call for proposals is launched in the framework of the Council of Europe Project “Strengthening Elections Integrity in Albania” SEI, implemented by the Council of Europe, and funded by the Federal Office of Germany.
The project “Strengthening Elections Integrity in Albania” (SEI) focuses on supporting the CEC regulatory framework and institutional capacities related to the professionalisation of election administration, voters’ education programmes, with a focus on first-time voters, and efficiency and transparency of the Election Dispute Resolution (EDR) process which would contribute to enhance elections’ integrity, trust of citizens in the electoral process and ultimately increase turnout of voters.
More concretely, it aims at:
- Providing support to enhance professionalisation and independence of election administration through establishing and consolidating a permanent, modern, dynamic, and flexible training structure at the CEC in Albania.
- Strengthening information and education capacities of the CEC with particular focus on first time voters.
- Strengthening the CEC instruments and tools to effectively track election related complaints by establishing an online platform for complaints, and to effectively oversight the public activities of the state bodies by creating the platform for live monitoring of public activities.
Funding Information
- The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is up to 54,000 EUR (fifty-four thousand EUR).
Duration
- The implementation period of the projects should start on 15 February 2025 and shall not extend beyond 28 February 2026.
Target groups and stakeholders
- Projects should target in particular the following key stakeholders:
- Pre-university pupils and first-time voters;
- Educators/school teachers.
Eligibility Criteria
- Preference will be given to:
- Civil society organisation with a strong track record of similar civic education projects in collaboration with educational institutions;
- Civil society organisation with experience in implementing large scale electoral education and awareness raising programmes at the national level. At least 30.000 pupils are expected to participate in mock election programme throughout Albania.
- In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- be legally constituted as a civil society organisation in Albania;
- be entitled to carry out in Albania all the activities described in its project proposal.
- have been active for at least 5 years in the field of civic education or in areas related to electoral civic education;
- 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);
Ineligibility Criteria
- 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.
For more information, visit Council of Europe (CoE).