Support to local self-governments and/or civil society organisations in fighting discrimination and hate speech

Description

1) Objective

Under the framework of the European Union/Council of Europe joint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye”, and its action “Towards an equal, inclusive and tolerant Bosnia and Herzegovina”, the Council of Europe is launching a call for proposals with the aim to fund concrete responses on combating discrimination, including discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and/or gender identity and combating hate speech.

The grants will fund activities aimed at supporting the concrete implementation and/or follow-up at local level of the recommendations of the Council of Europe monitoring body in the field of anti-discrimination, namely the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), other applicable standards such as the Committee of Ministers recommendation on SOGI grounds and on combating hate speech as well as national action plans and roadmaps such as the LGBTI Action plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mapping responses to hate speech in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For further information, please refer to part 2 and 6 of this section below.

Projects designed could address the following issues:
• Promotion and protection of rights of LGBTI persons in the local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina related to access to health and education, in the area of sports, media and administration, protection against hate speech and hate crime, etc.
• Combating hate speech and/or countering intolerance, exclusion, inequality, hatred and racism in local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereby focusing on vulnerable groups such as irregularly present migrants, Roma, people with disabilities, LGBTI people, Jews, people of different ethnicity/religions, etc.

2) Eligibility

Applicants must be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina or is a local self- government.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

4) Budget

The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is €60,000 Euros (sixty thousand Euros). The Council of Europe intends to award 6 (six) grants of a maximum amount of €10,000 Euros (ten thousand Euros) each.

5) Application

The deadline for the submission of applications is until 19 November 2023 (at 23:59 CET). Applications should be sent to the following e-mail address: anti-discrimination@coe.int. An informative session about the grant procedure will be held online on 6 November 2023 via this Link (Meeting ID: 313 997 955 527; Passcode: Wuosd5) at 14:00.