Deadline: 14-Aug-2020
The Norwegian Financial Mechanism (NFM) has announced a call for proposals for Project Promoters of the “Home Affairs” Programme.
The call aims to ensure the functioning of national asylum and migration management systems and to ensure the right to seek asylum, inter alia, by:
- support for the national asylum and migration management systems, including voluntary returns;
- services supporting asylum-seekers in the exercise of their fundamental rights (psychological and legal assistance, providing comprehensive information to migrants and asylum-seekers);
- actions in the area of voluntary returns, including in particular training, workshops for officers and staff members having direct contact with migrants;
- assistance to unaccompanied minors and other groups with special needs.
Projects containing elements of bilateral and international cooperation and cooperation between public administration and NGOs (i.e. joint conferences, workshops, meetings, etc.), as well as projects which include elements related to:
- combating trafficking in human beings,
- supporting voluntary returns,
- support and services for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum and other groups with special needs,
- combating gender-based violence
Funding Information
Minimum grant amount for a project is EUR 200,000, with the maximum being EUR 1,500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public bodies, i.e. institutions representing the public finance sector, non-governmental organisations established as legal person in Poland, operating within the area of asylum and migration, as well as international organisations or their bodies or agencies operating within the area of asylum and migration.
- Partnership under a project: public bodies, i.e. institutions representing the public finance sector (pursuant to the Act on public finance), non-governmental organisations established as legal person in Poland, Norway, other Beneficiary State or a country from outside the European Economic Area, which shares a border with Poland, and actively operating within the area of asylum and migration, as well as international organisations or their bodies, or agencies operating within the area of asylum and migration.
For more information, visit http://fundusze.mswia.gov.pl/uee/calls-for-proposals/norwegian-financial-mec/15523,NFM-2014-2021-Call-for-proposal-under-the-HOME-AFFAIRS-Programme-for-the-themati.html