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CfP: Women’s Empowerment Small Grants Program (Deadline: 10 March)

Target group: CSOs working on women issues and women empowerment in Bosnia and Herzegovina Aim: This program supports NGO efforts to enable women as equal participants in economic, civic, and political life in BiH. Proposals that go beyond awareness building to promote action or create behaviour or institutional change will be particularly competitive. The call

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CfP: European Commission Global Europe Thematic Programme on Human Rights and Democracy (Deadline: 27 March)

Target group: Registered CSOs operating in Europe. Aim: to fight impunity by building the knowledge base for accountability, and developing comprehensive strategies and tools to address knowledge, capacity, and commitment gaps. Amount: EUR 20,000,000.00 Duration: N/A – This call for proposals is launched with a suspensive clause subject to the availability of the funding in

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CfP: UNESCO – Open Call for Proposals – CC4WBs (Deadline: 31 March)

Target group: Public Institutions (culture-related field of activity) and CSOs from WB Aim: The joint project ‘Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans’ (CC4WBs) aim at a broad participatory approach across all categories of sectoral stakeholders. This systemic and people-centred approach to development is intended to deeply embed progress across the sector while ensuring ownership

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CfP: (North Macedonia) Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (Deadline: N/A)

Target group: International or local CSOs, community-based organizations, local authorities, health institutions, primary and vocational training schools, and other not-for-profit organizations from North Macedonia Aim: To provides non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides

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CfP: Grants to Strengthening the role of Civil Society in Digital Multilateral and Multistakeholder Models (Deadline: 14 February)

Target group: Registered, nonprofit, CSOs from Europe Aim: To promote EU values-based human-centric digital transformation through the multilateral system, whilst supporting the EU’s vision of multi-stakeholders as a model to help shape the global narrative. Amount: total budget of the call is EUR 7.500.000 Duration: N/A Link to the original call (Funds for NGOs)

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CfP: (North Macedonia) Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (Deadline: N/A)

Target group: International or local CSOs, community-based organizations, local authorities, health institutions, primary and vocational training schools, and other not-for-profit organizations from North Macedonia Aim: To provide non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides

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CfP: SMART Balkans Call for Applications (Deadline: 15 February)

Target group: CSOs, activists, and media representatives from WB6 countries Aim: to contribute to the strengthening of participatory democracies and Euro-Atlantic integration in the Western Balkans through the empowerment of CSOs for a stronger and more active role in creating peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North

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CfP: (Albania) TWIST – Towards a New Social Entrepreneurship Model (Deadline: 24 February)

Target group: CSOs registered and operating in Albania Aim: to contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship as a potential practice for increasing the social reuse of confiscated assets from organized crime and as an effective model of inclusive economy/ social business to provide services, skills, employment, and support to vulnerable groups, such as

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CfP: EC Strengthening Global CSO Umbrella Organisations (Deadline: 27 February)

Target group: Registered, membership based, non-profit CSOs worldwide. Aim: to strengthen a limited number of representatives, membership-based, and actor-based global Civil Society umbrella organizations as leaders and coordinators of a wider group of like-minded CSOs, through Framework Partnership Agreements, in order to maximize the effectiveness of their work as independent actors of good governance and

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CfP: Gender and Youth Activity Small Grant Program (Deadline: 16 January)

Target group: CSOs, non-profits, and higher education institutions worldwide Aim: to strengthen innovative localized approaches to gender and/or youth, led by local partners; to collect, analyze, and use the information on gender and/or youth issues or strategies; to transform negative gender norms, taboos, attitudes, and behaviors, and/or projects that incorporate positive youth development approaches Amount:

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CfP: USAID Balkan Media Assistance Program (Deadline: 20 January)

Target group: registered media organizations, media industry associations, and CSOs based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia Aim: To upgrade the legal and operating environment for independent media, including issues of safety and security and media freedom; To to raise awareness and provide direct responses to threats to media safety and

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CfP: SMART Balkans Call for Applications (Deadline: 15 February)

Target group: CSOs, activists, and media representatives from WB6 countries Aim: to contribute to the strengthening of participatory democracies and Euro-Atlantic integration in the Western Balkans through the empowerment of CSOs for a stronger and more active role in creating peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North

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