Deadline: 1 October 2015
The European Commission through its European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) program is accepting proposals to promote democracy and human rights worldwide through support to civil society initiatives.
The EIDHR is global in scope. It operates at national, regional and international levels and supports actions carried out in third countries throughout the world, and also in Member States if relevant to needs in third countries.
Objectives of the Program
The program objectives are divided into five lots:
- Lot 1: To Support Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) organisations working at grassroots level
- The general objective of this lot is to provide support to human rights defenders organisations working at grassroots level, in particular in most difficult situations and remote areas.
- Lot 2: To contribute to the monitoring and the effective implementation of the specific international core conventions ratified by GSP+ beneficiary countries in the EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences+ (GSP+) context
- The general objective of this lot is to support civil society and social partners’ actions in ensuring that current EU GSP+ beneficiary’s countries meet their commitments to ratify and effectively implement core international conventions.
- Lot 3: To support the fight against the death penalty
- The general objective of this lot is to support actions aiming at promoting the abolition of the death penalty, the establishment of a moratorium on the death penalty, and the restriction of the use of the death penalty
- Lot 4: To support migrants, including asylum seekers in third countries, internally displaced persons and stateless persons.
- The general objective of this lot is to support the rights of migrants including asylum seekers in third countries, internally displaced persons and stateless persons,
- LOT 5: To Support children associated with armed forces, groups and gangs and impacted by armed violence
- The general objective is to address the issue of children associated with armed forces, groups and gangs and impacted by armed violence focusing on girls and boys as part of the population dramatically affected by and vulnerable to armed violence, with an increase in conflicts, social violence and armed criminality in many areas of the world.
Size of Grants
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the amounts specified in the following five lots
- Lot 1: EUR 250 000 to EUR 1000 000
- Lot 2: EUR 8000 000 to EUR 1 500 000
- Lot 3: EUR 800 000 to EUR 1 500 000
- Lot 4: EUR 250 000 to EUR 1 000 000
- Lot 5: EUR 250 000 to EUR 1 000 000
Location
- For Lots 1, 3, 4 and 5, actions must take place outside the European Union.
- For Lot 2 actions must take place in ALL of the GSP+ beneficiaries’ countries in 2016 namely: Armenia, Bolivia, Georgia, Cape Verde, Mongolia, Pakistan, Paraguay and the Philippines.
Duration
The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 36 months
For information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, please visit the next link.
