EU Support to Civil Society
Information Session
Media for All
Support to Social Partners
Civil Society Facility
Dos and Don‘ts
Gaby Hagmüller, EU Office in Kosovo, 12 March 2013
Media for All
• Deadline: 15 April 2013
• Open Call for Proposals: Concept Note + Full Application
• Lot 1:
– Improving investigative reporting and the quality of
independent and publicly beneficial journalism for
TV, online, print and radio media of public and private
media operators, including minority media.
– amount: € 500.000 - € 550.000
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Media for All
• Lot 2:
– Capacity building for bodies relevant to the work of
the media (i.e. Kosovo Press Council, Independent
Media Commission, etc.) as well in the field of
implementation of relevant legal frameworks that
directly or indirectly impact the media and their work
(i.e. Copy Rights Law, Civil Defamation Law, etc)
– amount: € 200.000 - € 250.000
• Co-financing: 5-25%
• Duration: 24 – 30 months
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Media for All
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must
• be non-profit-making
• be specific types of organisations such as: non-governmental
organisations, public sector operators, local authorities,
international (inter-governmental) organisations
• be established in an EU or EEA Member State or IPA
beneficiary
• have a proven background and a minimum of 3 years
experience in delivery of training, capacity building
assistance, and/or organisational reform in the field of media
(print media, radio, TV, etc.)
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Media for All
Co-Applicants/Sub-granting
• Applicants must act with at least one co-applicant
organisation (two if the applicant organisation’s
seat/permanent representation is not in Kosovo)
• Co-applicants preferably originating from another
community within the borders of Kosovo
• Applicants are encouraged to act with organisations/
associations/ media operators with less capacity and
less experience in implementing EU funded actions.
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Support to Social Partners
• Deadline: 21 May 2013
• Open Call for Proposals: Concept Note + Full Application
• Objectives:
– To develop skills and knowledge of social partners in legislative
drafting, legal research and analysis,
– to strengthen the administrative and management capacities of social
partners,
– to strengthen the capacities of social partners in advocacy, lobbying
and negotiations,
– to facilitate the organisational reform of social partners.
• Amount: € 500.000 - € 600.000
• Co-financing: 15-45%
• Duration: 24 – 36 months
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Support to Social Partners
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must
• be non-profit-making
• be non-governmental organisations, public sector operators,
trade unions and employers organisations, international
(inter-governmental) organisations
• be established in an EU or EEA Member State or IPA
beneficiary
• have a proven background and a minimum of 3 years
experience in delivery of training, institutional capacity
building assistance, and/or organisational reform, preferably
in the field of social partners, trade unions, employers
associations, chambers of commerce, or similar.
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Support to Social Partners
Co-Applicants/Sub-granting
• Applicants must act with at least one co-applicant
(two if the applicant organisation’s seat/permanent
representation is not in Kosovo)
• Co-applicants preferably originating from within the
territory of Kosovo.
• Applicants are encouraged to act with organisations/
associations with less capacity and less experience in
implementing EU funded actions.
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Civil Society Facility
• Deadline: 15 April 2013
• Restricted Call for Proposals: only submission of
Concept Notes in the first step
• Duration: 24 – 36 months
• Lot 1:
– Support the implementation of the "Strategy for
government and civil society dialogue in Kosovo" in order
to enable a systematic consultation of CSOs in the policy
and decision-making process.
– Total amount available for this Lot: €1.200.000
– Grant sizes: € 80.000 - € 250.000
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Civil Society Facility
• Lot 2:
– Support to social partners, notably employees'
and employers' organisations, to strengthen their
capacities in order to increase their role and
participation in the policy and decision-making.
– Total amount available for this Lot: €300.000
– Grant sizes: € 80.000 - € 200.000
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Civil Society Facility
• Lot 3:
– Strengthen the ‘watchdog’ role of the civil
society in ensuring transparency and
accountability of public authorities.
– Total amount available for this Lot: €700.000
– Grant sizes: € 80.000 - € 250.000
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Civil Society Facility
Co-Applicants/Sub-granting
• If no sub-granting is foreseen, applicants must act
with at least one co-applicant organisation
• Co-applicants preferably originating from another
municipality and/or another community within the
borders of Kosovo
• Applicants are encouraged to act with grass-root and
remote organisations which have less experience in
implementing EU funded actions.
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EU Support to Civil Society
Information Session
Questions?
Media for All
Support to Social Partners
Civil Society Facility
Gaby Hagmüller, EU Office in Kosovo, 12 March 2013
Dos and Don‘ts
The most common mistakes in
grant applications
Gaby Hagmüller, EU Office in Kosovo, 12 March 2013
Too broad, too ambitious objectives
• Often, the objective of the Call, word for word or
slightly modified, is the objective of the proposal.
• Many applications target too many objectives at the
same time, or define very unrealistic objectives
• Focus on concrete objectives - to do what you
actually can achieve!
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Too broad, too ambitious objectives
Examples:
• Promotion of critical thinking and writing for contribution on
developing greater cohesion in working on human rights, political
pluralism and democratic political participation and representation,
in contributing to the peaceful conciliation of group interest,
combating discrimination on any ground and developing equal
participation of men and women in social economic and political
life, thus becoming an effective force for positive change.
• Professional Trainings and Capacity Building for Youth, Women and
Minorities.
• The adoption of democratic political culture and creating new social
capital in building active communities and improve the quality of
life of citizens.
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Expected Results wrongly defined
• Very often, results are presented in the format of
activities or outputs.
• Results are the achievements, the actual outcomes
of the action and its outputs, not the outputs
themselves.
• The organisation of an event, training, workshop is
not a result. The actual impact of this event, training,
workshop is a result.
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Expected Results wrongly defined
Good example
ACTIVITY
OUTPUT
OUTCOME
Seminars for
journalists
40 journalists specifically
trained on EU issues.
X number of articles on EU
issues published in the x
…newspaper , x number of
articles in the xx
newspaper/ weekly
magazine,
The articles published
contained less/ few/ no
errors or misconception
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Expected Results wrongly defined
Other examples
• Initiating civic/youth activism with no ethnical, religious
and racial discrimination
• Formed local teams as new models of public participation
• The implementation of 4 human rights monitorings, 4
human rights awareness campaigns, 2 human rights
informative campaigns conducted by CSOs
• A survey on the quality of life situation of PWDs in Kosovo
is made
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Relevance of the action to the
objective of the call
• Often, the action itself is described under this
section and no reference is made to the objective
of the call and why and how the proposed action
relates to it.
• Or simply, the relevance is missing all together.
• Explain how the action relates concretely to the
objectives of this specific call, how your action will
contribute to achieving the objectives of this
specific Call for Proposals.
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Relevance of the action to the
objective of the call
Example from the EIDHR call
• Objective to provide employment for specific
target groups.
How is this relevant to promoting Democracy and
Human Rights?
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Relevance to the particular needs/constraints
of the country (Problem analysis)
• Many applicants use this section to give a general
overview of all the problems in the country, i.e.
poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, poor education
system, discrimination, corruption, poor
governance, weaknesses in democratic structures,
poor economic situation, etc.
• Instead, this section should define very concretely
the specific environment of your action, the
problems your stakeholders/target group face, the
problems you intend to address with your action.
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Target groups/final beneficiaries
• Sometimes, the target groups are poorly identified,
too broad, ignoring important stakeholders, etc.,
thus compromising the implementation of activities
and the achievement of the project's objectives.
• The more concretely and precisely you define your
target groups, the easier it is to identify their
individual specific problems which you want to
address through your action.
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Target groups/final beneficiaries
Example
• Objective: to empower the partnership relations
between CSOs and the local authorities in the
targeted municipalities;
• Target groups: CSOs from Kosovo working with
vulnerable groups; Final beneficiaries: vulnerable
groups (no involvement of local authorities!)
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Activities not clear and concrete
• Sometimes, the activities are not clearly described,
too broad, too vague, not giving enough
information on how this will be implemented, with
whom, with which effect.
• Be creative! Think outside the box!
• The more concretely and precisely you link your
activities to the problem analysis, the target groups
and the actual results, the easier it is to
demonstrate the impact of your action.
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Activities not clear and concrete
Examples
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Establishment of local teams through interviews based on certain criteria, and the
establishment of organizational procedures
– Based on which criteria?
Strengthening the capacity of members of local teams.
– How??? i.e. 'Provide training to members of local teams on project
management'
Advocacy actions to raise awareness on Convention XXX in 6 municipalities
– What kind of advocacy actions? Which target groups? Which municipalities?
Why?
Public awareness campaign including short radio and TV advertisement and
publications
– Increase whose awareness on what by which means?
Capacity building workshops for all target groups
– Build whose capacity on what by which means?
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Budget
• Activities are often not reflected in the budget.
• Budget lines are wrongly presented.
Examples
• Proposed activity – produce a brochure on 'XYZ'
(budget line – Brochure 'XYZ' design, printing,
distribution cost – missing in the budget)
• Transportation cost for evaluator presented under
budget line 5.Other costs, services, while there is a
separate budget line for such costs - 2. Travel.
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Logical Framework
• OVIs are very often poorly defined and not
measurable.
• Example
• Objective: to enhance the inclusiveness and
pluralism in civil society in Kosovo through support
and capacity building actions to CSOs representing
specific disadvantaged groups of society.
• OVIs: political participation and exclusion,
interethnic relations, democracy and the rule of law.
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Contacts
• Gaby Hagmüller
Social Development Team Leader
Operations Section
European Union Office in Kosovo/EUSR
• For more information:
eeas.europa.eu/delegations/kosovo or
www.tacso.org
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