European Commission: Action Grants to Combat Violence against Girls, Deadline: 27 October 2016

The European Commission is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for its Action grants to support national information, awareness raising and education activities aimed at preventing and combating violence against women.

They may focus on vulnerable groups of women and girls, such as (but not limited to) women and girls with disabilities, migrant and refugee women and girls, homeless women and girls, Roma women and girls, women and girls belonging to national, ethnic or religious minorities, elderly women, and lesbian, bisexual or trans women and girls.

Aims

• changing attitudes and behaviours towards violence against women, with the aim of preventing it from happening through education, combating victim-blaming and encouraging victims and witnesses to report violence to the relevant authorities and institutions. Campaigns may be targeted at specific groups of women and girls (for example young women, pregnant women, elderly women, migrant and ethnic or religious minority women, refugee women, women with disabilities, homeless women), or may target the population in general (although proposals should consider how to target different sections of the population).
• training relevant professionals (e.g. within health services, education, the judiciary, the police, support services etc.) in order to ensure adequate registration, investigation and prosecution of all forms of violence against women and sensitive support for victims, as well as improve perpetrator programmes;
• training journalists and media professionals in order to ensure sensitive and appropriate reporting of the issue and incidents;
• encouraging men and boys to challenge sexism and gender norms that encourage violence against women, and actively engage in the fight against violence against women;
• informing victims about their rights and the support services (shelters, helplines etc.) and protection measures available in their country (including the availability of cross-border protection measures)

Funding Information

• The EU grant requested cannot be lower than EUR 100.000.
• Projects must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be:
  • the national authority in charge of the policy on equality between women and men or by the national authority in charge of the policy on violence against women, when this is a different national authority (if an application is submitted by one of these authorities, applications submitted by other entities will be ineligible)
  • the body responsible for gender equality at national level (i.e. body referred to in Art. 20 of the Directive 2006/54/EC) (if no application is submitted by the national authority
  • an application submitted by the body responsible for gender equality at national level will be eligible)
  • another national authority (only if no application is submitted by the two entities will an application submitted by another national authority be eligible);
• Partners must be public entities or private profit or non-profit oriented organisations, duly established in one of the countries participating in the Programme, or international organisations;
• Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated to an application, but their costs will not be co-financed.
• Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications.
• Applicant and partners must be legally established in an eligible Country from all the EU Member States,Iceland and Liechtenstein.
• This is not applicable for International organisations.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Action Grants.