Within the framework of the European Union/Council of Europe Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II - action on “Preventing and combating human trafficking in Serbia”, the Council of Europe is launching a call for grants, which is to be open to non-governmental organisations registered in the Republic of Serbia.

Through this call, the action on “Preventing and combating human trafficking in Republic of Serbia” will co-fund 2 (two) projects aimed at raising awareness among general public and in particular school children, their parents and child protection professionals on the risks of trafficking in children.

General objective: The grants will fund projects designed to raise awareness among general public and children, parents and caretakers, child protection, health and education professionals about the risks of trafficking in children, including in the digital environment, the forms of exploitation and the most common methods used by traffickers to trap child victims into trafficking. The campaigns should target primary and high school children, children from disadvantaged communities (for example, Roma) or in vulnerable situations.

Means of Action

• Projects may include media campaign, advertising.
• Social media and web interactive pages accessible to all, YouTube videos.
• Brochures, billboards, posters, leaflets.
• Artistic outputs (e.g., a theatre play, a video campaign, cartoons, exhibitions, a music concert and other artistic expression).
• A public outreach to individuals at risk (organisation of public meetings, distribution of informative materials).
• Any other means of action compatible with the aims and values of the Council of Europe.

Funding Information

The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 30,000 Euros (thirty-thousand Euros). The Council of Europe will award 2 (two) grants of a maximum amount of 15,000 Euros each. The grantee will need to ascertain that the expenditure in the local currency corresponds to the above-mentioned amount (in line with the Euro foreign exchange reference rates).

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:

• be legally constituted as a non-governmental organisation or non-profit legal person registered under relevant laws in the Republic of Serbia;
• be entitled to carry out in the Republic of Serbia activities described in its project proposal;
• have been active for at least 5 years in the field of preventing and combating human trafficking, protection of the child from violence and human rights protection;
• have sufficient financial capacity (stable and sufficient sources of funding) to maintain its activity throughout the period for which the grant is awarded and to participate by way of its own resources (including human resources or in-kind contributions);
• have sufficient operational and professional capacity, including staff, to carry out activities described in its project proposal;
• have a bank account.

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