Deadline: 12 March 2015
The European Commission with European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) is seeking proposals from non-profit organisations around the world for establishing a EU comprehensive human rights defenders mechanism. The activity seeks to address the most difficult situations faced by human rights defenders in the world and providing support to the local actors who strive to promote and defend them. The overall indicative amount available under this call for proposal is EUR 15000000.
The duration of the planned activity must not exceed 36 Months and the actions must have worldwide coverage.
Programme Objectives
The specific objectives of this Call for Proposals are:
- to ensure a stable and comprehensive EU support to HRDs;
- to manage the EU temporary relocation initiative; and
- to strengthen the coordination between HRDs initiatives and actors supported by EIDHR.
Priority Areas
- Focusing on the most difficult situations and the most vulnerable HRDs and should primarily target
- HRDs in those countries and regions where they are the most persecuted and subject to repression
- HRDs groups particularly targeted, amongst others women, LGBTI, land rights and environmental rights defenders, HRDs defending the rights of indigenous peoples, minorities, migrants and stateless persons, trade unionists promoting labour rights, lawyers, journalists and others promoting fundamental freedoms.
- HRDs working in remote areas
- Forgotten and disenfranchised HRDs
- Providing urgent, medium and long term support to HRDs
- Short term support to HRDs must include
- Permanent helpline for HRDs (24h/7)
- Physical/digital protection
- Urgent relocation
- Medical support and rehabilitation
- Legal support
- Support to families
- Urgent monitoring and reporting, urgent advocacy
- Medium-term support to HRDs must include:
- Follow-up of individual cases
- Legal support, trial and prison monitoring
- Training on risk prevention and security
- Temporary relocation
- Long-term support to HRDs must include:
- Supporting coordination and synergies
- Legal support to lengthy judicial procedures
- Rehabilitation and psychological support
- Monitoring of HRDs situation and early warning
- Strategies to counter restrictions and sanctions, in particular on defamation, funding and criminalization issues
- Advocacy for pro-HRDs legislative frameworks
- Ensuring coordination and outreach
- The project will ensure added value with existing initiatives, avoiding duplication with on-going programmes/projects and setting up coordination mechanisms to enhance synergies.
- Short term support to HRDs must include
Size of grants
Grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between EUR 14,000,000 to EUR 15,000,000.
For eligibility criteria and application procedure, please click Next.
