EUROPEAID/151540/DD/ACT/BA/ EUROPEAN INSTRUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS - COUNTRY BASED SUPPORT SCHEME 2015 AND 2016

Background                                                                   Max. Grant amount: EUR 350.000

The Regulation (EU) No 235/2014 establishes a European Instrument for the promotion and the support of Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) for the period 2014-2020. The EIDHR stipulates that in the implementation of this Regulation, the Union should apply a rights-based approach encompassing all Human Rights, whether civil, political, economic, social or cultural. Country Based Support Schemes policy is a long-established element of the European Union’s human rights and democracy policy under its external action. It has been built on experience with CBSS under the EIDHR Strategies 2007-2013 and with micro project facilities under the previous European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights. It has been the object of an in-depth evaluation in 2010. The evaluation showed that the CBSS constitutes an important source of funding as it can work in a flexible way, even without host country government consent where the situation so requires. This allows it to address complex issues which would be hard to fund under other instruments.

Size of grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  - minimum amount: EUR 150.000
  - maximum amount: EUR 350.000.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  - be a legal person
  - be non-profit-making
  - belong to one of the following categories: civil society organisations, including non-governmental non-profit organisations and independent
    political foundations, community based organisations, and private sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations, and networks
    thereof at local, national, regional and international level; international and regional inter-governmental organisations (as defined by
    Article 43 of the Rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation);
  - be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as
    intermediary.


Deadline: 10 May 2016

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