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CfP: DRL Balkans Media and Civil Society – Serbia, Kosovo, BiH, North Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro (Deadline: 26 April 2021)

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)’s goal is the governments in Serbia, Kosovo, BiH, North Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro through continued democracy and the rule of law reform processes to show improved respect for human rights. The program will address the following objectives: strengthening CSOs’ abilities to collaborate across borders on key

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CfP: Call for Financial Support of Associations and Foundations in North Macedonia (Deadline: 17 March 2021)

The General Secretariat of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia publishes a call for financial support of associations and foundations. The total amount of the support is 20,000,000 MKD to fund the program activities of associations and foundations through grants from 600,000 to 900,000 MKD in seven priority areas. Read more here. Source:

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CfP: Civil Society Facility-2020: Support to CSOs in Montenegro (Deadline: 25 May 2020)

The global objective of the call is to strengthen participatory democracies and the EU integration process in Montenegro by empowering civil society to participate in decision-making actively and by stimulating an enabling legal and financial environment for civil society. The specific objective(s) are to build the capacity of CSOs to be professional, effective, and accountable

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CfP: BCSDN Announces a Call for Proposals for Ad-Hoc Support Grants (Deadline: EXTENDED by the end of 2021, until all available funds are disbursed)

As part of the Regional Civil Society Development Hub, BCSDN is calling for grants for organizations from the Western Balkans, struggling with shrinking civic space in their countries, facing pressure to the civic space, incidences of hate speech, hostile attacks, or want to react towards the changes of a law that affects their work, etc.

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CfP: Civica Mobilitas Publishes Call for Action Grants (Deadline: 3 March 2021)

Civica Mobilitas has published a Call for Applications for Action Grants. CSOs, non-profit scientific research institutes, formally registered networks, coalitions, alliances, or platforms registered in North Macedonia are invited to apply. The proposed actions should contribute towards the objectives and outcomes of the Civica Mobilitas programme. The duration of the call activities should be between

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CfP: Democracy Commission Small Grants (Deadline: 4 March 2021)

The United States Embassy in Tirana is accepting proposals for the Democracy Commission Small Grants Program. The call focuses on priority areas, such as Anti-corruption; Good Governance; Investigative Journalism; Human Rights/Minority Rights; Empowerment of Women and Youth; Combatting Human Trafficking; Reforms, etc. The duration of the grant is 6 to 12 months. The award amount

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CfP: Support to Local Self-Governments and Civil Society Organisations for Combating Hate Speech (Deadline: 9 March 2021)

Within the framework of the European Union/Council of Europe Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II – action on “Promotion of diversity and equality in North Macedonia”, the CoE is launching a call for grants “Support to local self-governments and/or CSOs for combating hate speech”. The call aims to support selected grantees in

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CfP: 3rd Call for Proposals, Cross-border Programme Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro (IPA II) (Deadline: 9 February 2021)

Applicants are invited to apply for grants under the 3rd call for proposals for the 2014-2020 cross-border cooperation programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro. The programme is implemented under the framework of the Instrument of pre-accession assistance (IPA II). It results from joint planning efforts made by the governments and other stakeholders of the

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