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The Council of Europe project “Ending violence against women: multi-country programme” is launching a call for proposals for civil society organisations (CSOs) with expertise and experience in combating violence against women and domestic violence in Slovak Republic.

The call aims to support awareness-raising and advocacy initiatives to promote the values, aims and provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention), generating positive narratives and dispelling myths and misinformation regarding the convention. 

The Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Division, Women Against Violence Europe Network (WAVE) and UN Women have developed a methodology with relevant advocacy resources and tools to support CSOs all over Europe in running national communication and advocacy campaigns on the Istanbul Convention. The projects are requested to use this methodology in development of their initiatives adapting the proposed toolkit to the needs of their country.

General Objective

• The grants will fund projects designed to run awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns using the joint Council of Europe, WAVE Network and UN Women methodology and tools in the Slovak Republic.

Priorities

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

  • Projects/actions proposed by national/local civil society organisations working in the field of violence against women and domestic violence from the Slovak Republic.

  • Projects/actions targeting general public and/or decision makers.

  • Projects/actions involving other relevant institutions/organisations.

Funding Information

• The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 25 000 Euros (twenty-five thousand Euros).

• The Council of Europe intends to award 1 grant of a maximum amount of 25 000 Euros (twenty-five thousand Euros) each.

Implementation Period

• The implementation period of the projects should start on 8 December and shall not extend beyond 7 July 2024.

• Reporting requirements shall be completed on 6 August 2024 at the latest.

Target Stakeholders

• Projects should target in particular the following key stakeholders:

  • General public

  • Decision makers

Ineligible

• 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 the Slovak Republic;

  • be entitled to carry out activities described in its project proposal in the Slovak Republic;

  • have been active for at least 4 years in the field of combatting violence against women and domestic violence;

  • 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: October 19, 2023