Deadline: 11-Oct-22
The Active Citizen Fund accepts applications to support the protection and social inclusion of refugees fleeing from Ukraine.
Aim: To support NGOs actions to achieve social justice and inclusion of vulnerable groups, to activate and empower vulnerable groups to know and claim their rights and entitlements towards the authorities, to be proactive and access available services, to demand the authorities to develop needed services, to act for vulnerable peers, have increase resilience, coping mechanisms, skills and abilities to integrate (in education, employment, etc.), to participate to community life, including decision making process.
Areas of Support: Social justice and inclusion of vulnerable groups
Funding Information
- Total additional financial allocation for Ukraine crisis: 1,058,000 Euro
- Project duration (minimum and maximum): 6 – 12 months
- Grant amount (minimum and maximum): 50,000 – 250,000 Euro
Outcome: Vulnerable groups are empowered covers one area of support of the Active Citizens Fund in Romania, respectively “Social justice and inclusion of vulnerable groups.
Target Groups
- End beneficiaries are refugees fleeing from Ukraine at risk of social exclusion, exploitation, trafficking in human beings, especially women, children, elderly, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, people living in marginalized areas, etc.
- Other vulnerable groups in Romania (including migrants, asylum seekers, refugees or beneficiaries of other forms of international protection, etc, other than those fleeing from Ukraine) at risk of social exclusion can be additionally targeted as end beneficiaries as part of interventions tackling social inclusion (maximum 30% of the beneficiaries).
- Other intermediary groups could be targeted in order to achieve results at the level of the end beneficiaries, such as general public, law enforcement (policemen, judges, etc.), public services employees (teachers, social workers, physicians, nurses, etc.), media, academia, NGOs staff working with refugees, local community members, etc.
Eligible Projects
- The projects under the current Call will address social inclusion of refugees that arrived in Romania as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, with a focus on the most vulnerable ones and the engagement of stakeholders in the process, creating benefits for local population as well.
- Thus, projects will facilitate access to existing services and contribute to improvement and adaptation of existing services and development of new services for refugees fleeing Ukraine (end beneficiaries as defined by the Call) with an integrated and inclusive approaches that go beyond immediate response: accommodation, medical support, learning Romanian language, access to education, employment, support groups, etc.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs), with Romanian nationality that acquired legal personality, are organized and operate under the Government Ordinance 26/2000 and/or the Law 21/1924 on associations and foundations (with subsequent amendments and completions); or
- County and Bucharest municipality foundations for youth and the National Youth Foundation established under the Law 146/2002 (with subsequent amendments and completions); or
- National Red Cross Society in Romania established under the Law 139/1995 (amended and supplemented by the Law 524/2004) and its structures with legal personality.
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