EuropAid

Support to Enhancement, Sustainability and Development

The Call for Proposals EuropeAid/133-337/L/ACT/MK, Support to Enhancement, Sustainability and Development of an Active Civil Society was published in the framework of the National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building. The purpose of the National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building is to promote an active civil society and to improve the environment conducive to development and sustainability of civil society organisations in the country as proactive social actors in the implementation of the EU Acquisitions. 

The objective of this call for proposal of the National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building is to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society in the fight against corruption and organised crime, in the protection of human rights, and the CSO management and networking, including joint implementation of community-based activities and social services, resource mobilisation, mobilising voluntary work, institutional cooperation between CSOs and between CSOs and the central and local government.

The priorities of the current National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building call for proposal are:
• Priority area 1. Fight against corruption and organised crime (including fight against trafficking of human beings and fight against illegal substances);
• Priority area 2. Strengthening the CSOs\' management and networking, including joint implementation of community based activities and social services, resource mobilisation, mobilising voluntary work, institutional cooperation between CSOs and between CSOs and the central and local government;
• Priority area 3. Protection of human rights, with special focus on vulnerable people, support to victims of family violence, mobilisation of local municipalities in preventing of HIV/AIDS/STI amongst the most at risk adolescents, and supporting the activities within the Decade for Roma inclusion 2005 – 2015 and the National Strategy for Roma.

The Eligible applicants within this call for proposal of the National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building must be non-profit making legal entities and civil society organisations, including non-governmental organisations and community based organisations, established in a Member State of the European Union, a country that is a beneficiary of the IPA Regulation, a country that is a beneficiary of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument or a Member State of the European Economic Area.
The eligible actions that can be founded within this National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building must include:
• carrying out research and analysis,
• convening and debating,
• drafting strategic policy documents,
• educating and capacity building,
• awareness raising and campaigning,
• exchanging know-how and applying best practices,
• introducing innovative models and approaches,
• monitoring public policies implementation,
• networking and partnership building,
• promoting citizens participation in creating and monitoring of public policies,
• other actions in the context of the general purpose of the grant scheme.

The total budget allocated to the co-financing of projects under this National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building call for proposals is estimated at 1.50 M€. The maximum grant shall not exceed 150 000 €.

The Deadline for submission of applications in the framework of this National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building programme call for proposal is 29 October 2012.
Further information on the current Call for Proposals of the National Programme for Transition Assistance and Institutional Building Programme is available at the following Internet address:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/index_en.htm