Otto per Mille Fund 2024

Description

1) Objective

The Otto per Mille Fund funds the following interventions:

• Fighting malnutrition: to combat malnutrition in children and adults.
• Promotion of the role of women and gender equality: to combat discrimination against girls and women; improve their access to social and health services; to strengthen the women’s role in society.
• Access to water and hygiene: to improve sanitation and access to water for domestic and agricultural use.
• Participation, dialogue, governance and human rights: to promote democratic participation, strengthen the civil society, good governance and the protection of human rights, with particular reference to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; to support peacekeeping and conflict prevention.
• Child protection: to ensure the protection of the rights and well-being of children and adolescents.
• Education: to ensure basic literacy for adults and children; increase the levels of access of children and young people to quality, inclusive and equal primary and secondary education, with particular regard to the female target group and beneficiaries from vulnerable groups (such as the disabled, indigenous people, orphans etc.).
• Vocational training and income-generating activities: to encourage the level of employment through vocational training courses and income-generating activities.
• Environment: to protect the environment and biodiversity; combat desertification and mitigate its effects; improve access to eco-sustainable systems in the field of energy supply and waste management.
• Rural development and food security: to promote food self-sufficiency in rural communities; improve the production and/or marketing techniques used in agriculture, livestock farming, fisheries and agro- silvo-pastoral systems, with particular attention to sustainable resource management.
• Health interventions and health protection: to increase the levels of access to high quality basic and specialist health services; improve social and health care and rehabilitation services for the elderly and/or disabled.
• Humanitarian – emergency aid: to provide first aid to the populations affected and restore primary services in response to humanitarian crises caused by natural disasters, famines, epidemics, armed conflicts; promote the reconstruction of infrastructure, the rehabilitation of the social and economic fabric and the activation of resilience mechanisms in contexts of ongoing instability after an emergency phase.

2) Eligibility

The following applicants are eligible to receive Otto per Mille grants of the Waldensian Evangelical Church (Union of the Methodist and Waldensian Churches) pursuant to Article 4 of Law 409 of 1993: Entities belonging to the Methodist and Waldensian order; Italian or international associations (Associations, Committees, NGOs and non-profit Organisations provided that the requested grant is used for charitable, humanitarian, cultural purposes and not for profit activities); Italian or international ecumenical organisations.

3) Location

Actions can take place worldwide.

4) Budget

Grant amounts depend on the project submitted and there are no minimum and maximum amounts. Individual grant sizes are usually around €5,000-€100,000.

5) Application Procedure

The call will be open from 09:00 am Rome time (UTC +02) on 8th January 2024 and the proposals must be sent by and not after 11:59 am Rome time (UTC +02) on 26th January 2024.