Deadline: 23-Dec-21
The Western Balkans Fund (WBF) is pleased to announce its 4th Call for Proposals to promote participation of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and grassroots organisations, in the Western Balkans, to participate in regional cooperation projects on social, cultural, scientific, and economic topics, including gender equality and disability inclusiveness to enhance good neighborly relations and reconciliation.
Areas of Intervention
Project proposals submitted under the 4th WBF Call for Proposals can cover one or several of the following Areas of intervention:
- Cultural cooperation: Strengthening regional cultural identity and intercultural dialogue in the WB, by enhancing cooperation through cultural initiatives, activities and projects.
- Education and scientific exchange: Promoting regional projects/activities aiming education development, its growth and its extension, capacity building and mobility, regional scientific and research exchanges and improvement.
- Sustainable development: Advancement of regional cohesion and supporting institutional partnership in sustainable economic development.
Cross-cutting Issues
The 4th Call for proposals, will also take into account the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues at project level. When developing a project to address any of the specific objectives of the call, cross-cutting issues need to be mainstreamed in the following manner:
- Gender equality and promotion of equal opportunities.
- Protection and promotion of ethnic minority rights, including their participation in decision making processes.
- Integration of persons with physical and mental disabilities.
- Safeguard and promotion of children’s rights and promotion of children’s participation in decision making processes.
- Democratic standards, anti-discriminatory practices and good governance.
- Environment and Climate change
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 400,000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds or cancel the call, should the quality or number of proposals received be insufficient.
- Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must not exceed EUR 15,000.
- The initial planned duration of a project may not be lower than 3 months nor exceed 10 months.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person, (natural persons or entities without legal personalities are not eligible,) and
- be established in one or more of the WBF Contracting Parties(WB6), and
- be non-profitmaking, and
- be a specific type of organisation from one of the following categories:
- A civil society organization (CSO/NGO)
- A local or regional public entity, or association of local or regional public entities
- A business association such as: association of enterprises, agriculture association, chamber of commerce, tourism association, etc.
- An educational institution such as university/faculty, school, institute, library, research centre, academy of science/music/arts, etc.
- Media associations such as: organizations working with media, journalism and freedom of expression.
- An institution of culture or sports such as museums, art galleries, theatres, libraries, or associations of cultural institutions, sport associations, etc.
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project and the relevant activities together with the project co-applicants, and not acting as an intermediary.
- not to be in any of the exclusion situations.
For more information, visit http://westernbalkansfund.org/2021/11/08/4th-call-for-proposals-is-finally-open/