Ministry of Finance of Republic of Croatia „Central Finance and Contracting Unit (CFCU)“ opened a call for proposal on January 21st, 2008 under name “Enabling the Civil Society Sector (SCO) for active contribution in the pre-accession process in the Area of Democratization and Hunam rights” taken from a budget line ”Croatia 2006 Phare National Programme”.
The overall objective of the Programme is to enable participation and active contribution of CSOs’ in developing, implementing and monitoring public policies and Acquis related policies (at all levels) in Croatia and contributing in raising of awareness of the benefits and challenges of EU accession.
The specific objective of this call for proposal is to support CSO projects that contribute to successful accession related reform processes and meeting of political criteria for EU membership in the field of democratization and human rights.
The project proposals should fall within one or more of the following priorities:
- Enhancing local development and citizens’ participation;
- Setting up of cross-sectoral partnerships with the aim of enhancing democratization and human rights processes and practice;
- Supporting intra-sectoral cooperation, partnership and networking of CSOs with the aim of strengthening civil society influence and participation in development, implementation and monitoring of public policies related to democratization and human rights issues.
Eligibility of applicants: who may apply?
In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
- be legal persons
- be non-for-profit and non-governmental organizations or formal networks of non-for-profit and nongovernmental organizations and
Partnerships and eligibility of partners
Partners Applicants’ partners participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the grant Beneficiary. They must therefore satisfy the same eligibility criteria as applicants.
In addition to the categories mentioned above, the following are however also eligible:
- Local and regional self-governments and local and regional development agencies may be involved as partners and/or co-financers in projects but may not apply as applicants
- Educational, development and research institutions, upon condition that they will not derive any profit and that the results will be of public benefit.
Size of grants:
Any grant awarded under this programme must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 50.000,00
- maximum amount: EUR 100.000,00
In addition, no grant may exceed 90% of the total eligible costs of the action meaning that the applicant must co-finance at least 10% of the total amount of the project budget.
The applicant may submit more than 1 proposal under this call for proposal and planned duration of a project action may not exceed 12 months.
The whole project documentation can be downloaded from a CFCU website (
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