Eurasia Civil Society Program for Protection of Human Rights for All (Turkey)
Apply for Eurasia Civil Society Program 2020-2021
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) invites applications for the Eurasia Civil Society Program 2020/2021. The program centers on the protection of human rights for all, democratic principles and rule of law and aims to support civil society’s important role in promoting human rights.
NHC will provide 5,000 USD – 25,000 USD in grant.
The deadline for sending in the Concept Note is 19 October 2020, by 24:00 CET using the Concept Note Application Form. You can contact us at [email protected] for your queries.
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Please fill out the form in English, and only if you absolutely cannot fill it out in English, you can fill it out in Turkish.
Projects should be implemented and core funding should be used in the country where the organization or individuals are based in and be completed over 12 months.
The application process is a two-stage process with a concept note and a full proposal. The application in the concept note stage is intended to be brief, focusing on the fulfilment of the basic eligibility criteria as well as the description of the key features of the project or core funding sought. After the pre-screening selected proposals will then be invited to submit a detailed full proposal. After the full proposal evaluation, the highest-scoring full proposals will be invited for due diligence interviews.
Goals of the Program
The Eurasia Civil Society Program aims to provide:
- core funding to support civil society organizations’ institutional capacity providing
- project funding within the priority areas of the program.
See the end of this document for the specifications of each funding scheme.
Eligibility – Who can apply
- NGOs registered in Turkey – including, foundations, associations, professional associations, unions, groups of individuals as well as non-profit cooperatives and universities. (These would include but will not be limited to, labour and professional unions, bar associations, associations of nurses, and other medical workers, and sector unions, including labour unions, teachers’ unions, and organizations that have branches in at least five cities in the country, that address or will address human rights issues within the scope of their work).
- Only groups of individuals (min. 3) with demonstrable past experience of working together on human rights issues can apply for project funding.
- Applicant NGOs should have a max turnover of 3,600,000 TL in 2019.
- Organizations can make only one application; however, they can be co-applicant with another organization’s application in addition to making their own application.
- Funds cannot be sub-granted.
Updates
- 19 Oct 2020 The invitations for the full project proposals will be issued on 9 November 2020. The deadline for the submission of the full project proposals is on 23 November 2020.
Contacts
- General Contact
- Mine YildirimHead, Freedom of Belief Project
- my@[email protected]
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