Deadline: 15 August 2015
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Section for Legal and Financial Matters has announced a new funding opportunity under the 2015 Development & Disarmament Call for Proposals.
The overall objective of this call is to strengthen capacity in developing countries in order to follow up and implement international obligations in the field of the non-proliferation regime, and to strengthen International organisations’ efforts in this regard.
Grants awarded under this scheme are to comply with the OECD/DAC criteria for ODA.
Subsidiary objectives are:
- to contribute towards the strengthening of the implementation of international frameworks for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
- to support efforts to build capacity and knowledge of humanitarian and developmental perspectives.
- to contribute to the involvement of relevant partners, including developing countries.
- to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to ensure active participation and contributions to international non-proliferation regime.
- to promote the non-proliferation regime as a contribution towards development and humanitarian protection by strengthening the capacity of the relevant international organisations, and support non-commercial organisations´ efforts towards multilateral verification of disarmament.
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