Deadline: 2-Apr-25
The International Renaissance Foundation, together with the Eastern Europe Foundation, with the support of the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (Norad) in partnership with Sweden (Sida) has launched the “Impulse: Empowering Civil Society for Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine” Small Grants Competition.
Objectives
- The Project’s objective is to enhance the capacity of Ukrainian civil society organizations (CSOs) to set and achieve development goals that will contribute to the early restoration and reform of democratic governance in Ukraine.
- The activities aim to address the challenges faced by CSOs, including lack of resources, skills, engagement, visibility and networking. The Project will strengthen the capacity of civil society and improve its position to defend Ukraine as a sustainable and inclusive European democracy, helping it recovers from the enormous damage caused by the Russian war.
Purpose
- The purpose of the competition:
- To involve civil society organizations from the most affected regions in the processes of planning the recovery of Ukraine, which takes into account multidimensional aspects, and advocacy for the principles of sustainable development, human rights, non-discrimination and gender equality, transparency of governance in recovery strategies and development plans of territorial communities.
- To provide opportunities for organizational development of teams through the implementation of small grants and involvement in the training program and development of partnerships.
Funding Information
- The optimal budget for one project is from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 hryvnias.
Duration
- Total duration – up to 12 months.
Eligible Activities
- Types of activities that can be included in the project implementation plan:
- Increasing awareness and demand among residents of territorial communities for inclusive, nature-based, people-centered solutions when planning the recovery of Ukraine, in particular at the level of territorial communities.
- Actively engage local residents in recovery planning and advocacy processes, with representation from diverse stakeholders and vulnerable groups of citizens, such as internally displaced persons, veterans, persons with disabilities, and others.
- Development of a local/regional community network, participation in community network initiatives and actions.
- Analysis of vital problems of the territorial community, with the development of conclusions and recommendations and the implementation of relevant advocacy activities.
- Communication activities that accompany the project and are based on materials from one’s own activities (including research, observations, analysis).
- Measures to increase the institutional capacity of your CSO, in particular the strategic planning of the applicant organization’s activities, taking into account the principles of sustainable development, non-discrimination and gender equality.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participants of the competition are local or regional public organizations, public unions, charitable foundations, self-organization bodies of the population that actively contribute to the recovery processes in their communities (or regions) and directly involve such target audiences as: veterans, internally displaced persons, persons with disabilities, other vulnerable groups of citizens.
- The applicant organization must be registered in the following regions: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv.
- The organization may not currently be physically located in its place of registration and may be re-registered in the territory controlled by the government of Ukraine if it had to relocate due to intense hostilities or occupation. However, the relocated applicant organization must have experience in engaging in community initiatives relevant to the region where it was registered (e.g., participation in post-occupation recovery planning processes, remote monitoring of the situation in the territory of its home community, etc.).
- The applicant organization’s team members must be physically located in Ukraine and be willing to participate in the organizational development program in person.
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