Deadline: 29-Oct-21
The United States Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the applications for the Regional Program of Local Democracy.
Objectives
- The overall goal of the project is to strengthen participatory democracy and EU integration in the Western Balkans, by strengthening civil society and encouraging young people to actively participate in the decision-making process, and improving a supportive legal and financial environment for civil society.
- The specific goal of the project is to strengthen partnerships between local authorities and civil society in the Western Balkans, by expanding the successful model of transparent project financing of CSOs (LOD methodology) from local government budgets, aimed at greater civic participation and youth participation in decision-making processes and improved service delivery in local communities.
Thematic Areas
- Social Inclusion and Employment Support
- Organizing basic uncertified trainings for unemployed persons in order to encourage the development of private entrepreneurship and reduce the number of adults, financially disadvantaged persons
- Rural development of villages in agriculture (vegetable growing, fruit growing, collection and processing of forest fruits, medicinal plants and other agricultural products)
- Social Policy and Population Health Protection
- Improving existing and developing new social assistance and health services for the vulnerable elderly population
- Help and support for improving the situation of the sick and elderly population
- Promotion of health, healthy living, prevention and control of cardiovascular and malignant diseases
- Projects that provide support to people with disabilities and their families
- Culture And Sport
- Development of new sports and cultural facilities for children and youth
- Promotion and protection of cultural and historical heritage
- Projects that contribute to the development of mountaineering, speleology, diving and rafting
- Environmental Protection
- Projects that solve the problem of illegal landfills and raise public awareness about the harmfulness of illegal landfills and the importance of collecting municipal waste
- Increasing The Volume Of Services For The Development Of Children And Youth
- Educational workshops for young people with an emphasis on the development of skills in the field of IT technologies and foreign languages
- Educational and creative workshops for preschool and early school age children
- Projects that contribute to the development of youth entrepreneurship
- Responding To The Crisis Caused By The Pandemic
- Projects that provide assistance to the population in a pandemic
- Support to entrepreneurs and the local economy on how to overcome business in a pandemic (consultations with experts, training on how to organize work from home, etc.)
- Young
- Increase mobility and interaction of young people (volunteer, thematic, sports and scout camps)
- Projects that promote and support youth work
- Development of new contents for better spending of free time (cultural, sports, entertainment and other contents for young people)
- Support to young people in the countryside (support for active farming, development of new facilities for young people in the countryside).
Funding Information
- The value of project proposals to be awarded under this call must be between the following minimum and maximum amount:
- minimum amount: 10,000.00 KM
- maximum amount: 70.000,00KM
- One civil society organization may submit several project proposals within one or more public calls, provided that the maximum amount of funds that can be allocated for project implementation to one civil society organization during the total duration of the ReLOaD2 project is 120,000.00 KM.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participation in this public call is open, on an equal basis, to all formally registered CSOs (association or foundation), in accordance with the applicable legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- To apply for the public call, applicants must:
- be formally registered CSOs in accordance with applicable legislation (association or foundation);
- Potential applicants cannot participate in the call or receive grants if they do not submit a signed and scanned eligibility statement with the project proposal.
- This public call is not open to branches of foreign and international associations, foundations and other non-profit organizations registered and operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Applicants will be excluded from participating in the call or from the award of grants if at the time of the call for proposals:
- subjects of conflict of interest;
- guilty of giving false information to the contracting authority, which is necessary as a precondition for participating in the call for proposals or if they have not provided the necessary information;
- try to obtain confidential information, influence the evaluation committee or the contracting authority during the evaluation process of the call for proposals.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=83940