Black Sea NGO Forum
Bucharest, Romania
Financial instruments for supporting
Civil Society: Opportunities
Bianca Baumler
Outreach and Knowledge Management Officer
European Endowment for Democracy (EED)
5 September, 2013
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Who we are – what we do
Added Value / Complementarity
Variety of support – fields of inspiration
Who can apply
Who we are – what we do
• International NGO
• Young
• Foster & encourage democratisation and deep
& sustainable democracy
• Bottom-up & all the time
• “support the unsupported”
Executive
Director of
EED,
Jerzy
Pomianowski
Added value / complementarity
• Rapid & flexible
• Risk-taking
• Early action
• Alternative to state support
• Complement European democracy support system
→ “fill the gaps”
Variety of support
1. Fund civil society initiatives
2. Core & institutional funding
• Seed funding
• Bridge funding
3. Supporting political leadership
4. Technical Expertise
Fields of Support/Inspiration
• Advancing Pluralism
• Political Dialogue and Consensus Building
• Social & Political Online Movements → going offline
• Innovative Democracy Tools: Technology, art & culture
Democracyendowment.eu
Who can apply?
• Civil Society, movements and people who
• foster & encourage democratization and deep & sustainable democracy
• promote democratic values and work in favour of a pluralistic multiparty system
in the “neighbourhood”
Registered or non-registered organisations and persons
Thank you for your attention!
democracyendowment.eu
Bianca@democracyendowment.eu
Tel. +32-2-73 95 801