Call for proposals from the Council of Europe for civil society organizations

Description

1) Objective

Support will be provided to projects that facilitate access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees to Ukraine at the local level. Projects must meet one or more of the following areas:

• Facilitate communication and information exchange between local self-government bodies and Ukrainian refugees residing abroad as well as returnees.
• Enhance resilience and social cohesion at local level through the promotion and implementation of trauma-informed approach in the context of access to rights and services for IDPs, returnees, and host communities.
• Support adaptation and integration of IDPs along with their access to rights and services.

Further to the general objective, preference will be given to:

• Projects/actions facilitating experience exchange and knowledge transfer between IDP-led initiatives and CSOs of the first (2014) and the second (after 2022) waves of displacement;
• Projects/actions engaging local self-government bodies;
• Projects/actions engaging CSOs working with refugees from Ukraine abroad;
• Projects/actions promoting Council of Europe standards in the field of internal displacement and human rights considerations of return policies;
• Projects/actions improving and advancing the quality of services provided to IDPs, returnees, and residence of host communities.

2) Eligibility

In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must: be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation in Ukraine; be entitled to carry out in Ukraine activities described in its project proposal; have been active for at least 2 years in the field of work with internally displaced persons; have sufficient financial capacity (stable and sufficient sources of funding) to maintain its activity throughout the period for which the grant is awarded and to participate by way of its own resources (including human resources or in-kind contributions); have sufficient operational and professional capacity, including staff, to carry out activities described in its project proposal; have a bank account.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Ukraine.

4) Budget

Project proposals shall be accompanied by a draft budget amounting to a maximum of 10,000€ or equivalent in Hryvnias. The estimated budget must be consistent, accurate, clear, complete and cost-effective, in the light of the activities proposed.

5) Application

Applications must be received before 5 March 2025 at 23:59 CET.