EU subsidies for NGO projects in developing countries

Title: Financing with European Development NGOs Actions in Developing countries

Overall Objectives:
- to reduce poverty through support to disadvantaged people in developing countries designed to meet their basic needs, to improve the quality of their lives and to reinforce their own development capacities.
-to support civil society strengthening and participatory development promotion in partner countries
Deadline: 26 October 2004

Specific objective: to support sustainable social, human, environmental and economic development and to provide institutional support and capacity building for local development structures, including partner organisations in developing countries.

Type of actions:
- actions that support sustainable social, human, environmental and economic development processes in developing countries and that mainstream institutional support and capacity building for local development structures with the aim of improving their internal organisations, strengthening their financial management capacities and developing their analytical and advocacy skills.
-actions that support and facilitate either the linking of relief, rehabilitation and development activities in countries emerging from a crisis following a natural or man-made disasters or disaster preparedness and prevention
-actions that are undertaken in countries affected by conflict and/or where official EC co-operation is suspended, unavailable or reduced
Actions must be carried out in partnership with a local organisation.

Location: LDC s (Least Developed Countries) and LCI s (Low Income Countries); Countries with HDI (Human Development Index ranking) over 100; other developing countries where there are many poor or marginalized groups.

Beneficiaries: an individual NGO with experience in the field, an NGO consortium or an NGO network registered in the EU, and the majority of whose financial resources come from Europe.

Minimum and maximum grants:
- actions presented by an individual NGO : max: € 750 000, min. € 50 000
- actions presented by a consortium of NGO s: max: 1 500 000€, min: 250 000€

Links:
Details and official application form available at: europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl