Deadline: 25-Feb-22
Within the framework of the European Union and Council of Europe joint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022” and its action “Fostering women’s access to justice in Turkey”, the Council of Europe is launching a call for grants, open to applications of non-governmental organizations registered in Turkey.
The purpose of this call is to select up to four (4) proposals from national and local non-governmental organisations for their projects supporting women in their access to justice and increasing their legal awareness.
The proposed applications should focus on empowering women as right-holders and supporting them for their access to justice, especially women in vulnerable or disadvantaged situations, such as victims of gender-based violence, refugees, migrants, Roma women and girls, women living in rural areas, etc.
Objectives
- Improving the gender responsiveness of legal aid services to effectively respond to the needs of women.
- Enhancing legal aid access for women, including through working with legal aid lawyers and civil society.
- Increasing legal literacy and awareness among women, especially groups of women in vulnerable situation.
- The grants will fund projects designed to support women in their access to justice, increasing their awareness about their legal rights, how to exercise them and access to available legal remedies and services, including legal aid, at local and regional level in Turkey.
- The proposed applications should focus on empowering women as right-holders and supporting them for their access to justice, especially women in vulnerable or disadvantaged situation such as women victims of genderbased violence, refugees, migrants, Roma women and girls, women living in rural areas etc.
- Projects/actions proposed by national and local non-governmental organisations working in the field of women’s access to justice, women’s human rights, preventing and combating violence against women and promoting gender equality in Turkey.
- Projects/actions implemented at local and regional level targeting women, particularly groups of women in vulnerable or disadvantaged situation.
- Projects/actions involving or co-operating with other relevant institutions/organisations.
Funding Information
The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 60 000 Euros (sixty thousand Euros). The Council of Europe intends to award up to four (4) grants of a maximum amount of 15 000 Euros (fifteen thousand Euros) each.
Target stakeholders
Projects should target in particular the following key stakeholders:
- Women in Turkey, particularly those in vulnerable or disadvantaged situation (such as victims/survivors of gender-based violence, refugee women, women in rural areas etc.) facing difficulties in accessing to justice, legal aid, legal assistance and information.
- General public
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation in Turkey;
- be entitled to carry out in Turkey activities described in its project proposal;
- have been active for at least 4 years in the field of promoting women’s access to justice, women’s human rights, gender equality or preventing and combating violence against women;
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.coe.int/en/web/genderequality/-/call-for-proposals-ngo-grants-on-supporting-women-s-access-to-justice-in-turkey
