Deadline: 16-Oct-20
The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) feels proud to announce a regional “COVID-19 Solidarity Programme 2020-2022: Proposals on Covid-19 in Prisons and Mental Health Institutions” with the financial support of the European Union, and in partnership with People in Need and AFEW International.
The NHC, in cooperation with Human Rights in Mental Health (Federation Global Initiative in Psychiatry, FGIP) seeks to provide grants to CSOs to monitor the effect of COVID-19 prevention and treatment measures on the conditions of people confined to closed institutions (both penitentiary and mental health) in Eastern Partnership countries.
The programme is part of a bigger set of activities carried out by a consortium led by People in Need. The overall aim is to enhance the capacities of CSOs to effectively respond to short- and medium-term challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and to influence longer-term policy reforms that support vulnerable groups and those disproportionately affected by the pandemic
Objectives
- CSOs to monitor and report on a full range of relevant issues; including (discontinuation of) health care and (lack of) contact with lawyers, relatives or loved ones etc.
- Providing advice and assistance to stakeholders, including confined persons, personnel, relatives, lawyers, on problems they encounter in COVID-19 prevention and treatment.
Funding Information
- The grant amounts vary between 6000-12000 euro.
- They will provide sub-grants for CSOs in 4 countries for a period of 9 – 12 months.
Eligible costs
- Eligible costs include all costs necessary to perform monitoring work including the reporting process: such as staff salary costs or fees, travel costs, daily allowances, printing costs, publication costs and telephone costs.
Ineligible Costs
The budget must be in line with the activities described in the application form. The following activities and expenditures are not eligible under this call:
- Infrastructure projects (constructing roads, bridges, buildings, etc);
- Purchase of land or property;
- Political or religious activities;
- Environmentally harmful projects;
- Retrospective activities (costs related to activities implemented prior to signing the grant agreement).
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for proposals is open to non-profit-making civil society organizations or consortia of non-profit-making civil society organizations with the status of a legal person, established in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine.
- In case of consortia, the main applicant will be responsible for the overall implementation of the action. All organizations should have access to closed institutions under a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) as prescribed by the UNs Convention against Torture’s Optional Protocol (OPCAT), or have a different agreement that allows them to access these institutions.
- In case the applicant does not have a formalized relationship with governmental bodies that provides access to closed institutions, the applicant needs to prove it has a track record of obtaining reliable information based on monitoring and explain in detail how such information will be gathered.
- Applications should provide evidence of the following:
- Registration status as a non-profit organization registered under national legislation
- At least four years’ experience delivering activities in line with the proposed project
- Experience with managing budgets of similar size
- Public administration institutions, state agencies, local or regional authorities, political parties or organizations affiliated with political parties are not eligible for this call. Proposed project duration should lie between 9 and 12 months.
For more information, visit https://www.nhc.nl/standing-together-call-for-proposals-for-eu-covid-19-solidarity-programme-for-eastern-partnership/