2025 Call for applications for the Western Balkans

Description

1) Objective

PeaceNexus will continue to invest in organisations and initiatives that aim to bridge divides. They will select brave organisations and initiatives and provide them with breathing space and tailored support to get stronger internally.

• Through organisational development support (OD), they wish to partner with actors whose primary focus is to contribute to sustainable peace and reconciliation and who wish to become stronger  by tackling key internal challenges.
• Through conflict sensitivity support (CS), they wish to support actors who do not necessarily have a focus on reconciliation but are interested in contributing to bridging divides and fostering interethnic trust through their broader mandate.

In both areas of support, they work with you as partners on organisational change to help you overcome internal challenges that hinder your effectiveness and ability to reach your own goals.

2) Eligibility

Eligible are civil society organisations, or an organisation from one of the following categories: foundation, multilateral or intergovernmental organisation or a network.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.

4) Budget

Financial component in the form of a small grant ranges from €15,000 to €40,000 per year to cover external expertise and process costs (for example, for meeting costs, fees of specialised consultants, capacity development investments). They do not offer project or core funding, but up to 20% of grants can be dedicated to overhead costs. The size of the grant depends on the size of the organisation and on its geographic scale, with larger grants being meant for regional entities.

5) Application

This call is open until 8 February 2026.