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The Council of Europe is inviting proposals for the to support projects that facilitate access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees to Ukraine at the local level.

Objectives 

• Facilitate communication and information exchange between local self-government bodies and Ukrainian refugees residing abroad as well as returnees (that may include developing and implementing of returnee-focused practices, mid- and long-term solutions for facilitating access to human rights and services for returnees to Ukraine; developing of information materials, online and social media tools, advancement of web content of local self-government bodies towards facilitating access of refugees from Ukraine and returnees to information, counselling and/or other services; capacity building of local self-government bodies and networking with organisations and initiatives working with refugees from Ukraine abroad).

• 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 (that may include capacity building, educational, and informational activities on trauma-informed approach, first psychological aid, self-help and resilience techniques, coping strategies reaching out to professionals, civil society organisations (CSOs), internally displaced persons, returnees, residents of host communities; integrating of trauma-informed approach into provision of social, psychological, administrative, and legal services by relevant institutions and organisations). 

• Support adaptation and integration of IDPs along with their access to rights and services (that may include assistance to organisations and institutions working on the right to education for children and young people who arrive from the temporarily occupied territories; provision of information and counselling and social services to vulnerable individuals and groups among internally displaced persons; implementation of gendersensitive services and/or practices towards vulnerable individuals and groups among IDPs).

Funding Information

• The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 40,000€ (forty thousand Euros). The Council of Europe intends to award 4 grants of a maximum amount of 10,000 € (ten thousand Euros) or equivalent in Hryvnias each.

• The implementation period of the projects should start on 7 April 2025 and shall not extend beyond 30 September 2025.

Means of Action

• Projects may include

  • organisation of events (workshops, forums, seminars, study visits etc.);

  • provision of services and consultations;

  • community-based actions and activities;

  • trainings;

  • implementation of awareness raising campaigns, development of information materials and media products, online content and tools;

  • creation or enhancing of referral mechanisms, multi-stakeholder working groups and/or platforms etc;

  • provision of equipment and other supplies.

Exclusion Criteria

• Applicants shall be excluded from the grant award procedure where they or, in the case of legal persons, their owner(s) or executive officer(s): 

  • have been sentenced by final judgment on one or more of the following charges: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activities, child labour or trafficking in human beings; 

  • are in a situation of bankruptcy, liquidation, termination of activity, insolvency or arrangement with creditors or any like situation arising from a procedure of the same kind, or are subject to a procedure of the same kind; 

  • have received a judgement with res judicata force, finding an offence that affects their professional integrity or constitutes a serious professional misconduct;

  • do not comply with their obligations as regards payment of social security contributions, taxes and dues, according to the statutory provisions of the country where they are established; 

  • are an entity created to circumvent tax, social or other legal obligations (empty shell company), have ever created or are in the process of creation of such an entity; 

  • have been involved in mismanagement of the Council of Europe funds or public funds.

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.

Post Date: February 13, 2025