The action plans to deliver minimum three (3) grants to national and local CSOs of a maximum amount of 15 000 Euros (fifteen thousand Euros) each for their projects/initiatives supporting women’s access to justice and increasing their legal awareness. The duration of the proposed projects/initiatives should be from six months to one year.
The grants will fund projects designed to support women in their access to justice, increasing their legal awareness and literacy, empowering them to claim their rights and report violations, and seek support and justice through available legal remedies and services, including legal aid, while preferably seeking co-operation with local partners including local bar association(s).
The proposed applications should focus on empowering and supporting women as right-holders, especially groups of women in vulnerable or disadvantaged situation such as women victims of gender-based violence, victims of the earthquakes in February 2023, refugees, migrants, Roma women and girls, women living in rural areas etc.
The deadline for applications is 3 June 2024 (at 17.00 GMT + 3). The application form, provisional budget and the supporting documents, must be submitted in electronic form (Word and/or PDF) to the following e-mail address: [email protected]. Emails should contain the following reference in subject: HF33 - WA2J – CSO for Grants.
Questions regarding this call for proposals must be sent at the latest two weeks before the deadline for applications, by 20 May 2024 in English or Turkish, and shall be exclusively sent to the following address: [email protected], with the following reference in subject: Question - HF33 - WA2J – CSO for Grants.
All related documents can be reached through the call for proposals published on the website of the CoE Programme Office in Ankara: https://www.coe.int/en/web/ankara/-/call-for-proposals-cso-grants-for-supporting-women-s-access-to-justice-in-t%C3%BCrkiye