The East Europe Foundation (EEF) has announced a call for proposals for Civic Tech Small Grant Program.

The grant program focuses on supporting civic initiatives aimed at implementing and promoting civic tech tools to improve government-public interaction in solving local problems.

The objectives of the grant program are:

• Introduction of the use of civic tech tools at the local/regional level;
• Raising public awareness and involvement in the use of civic tech tools to solve local problems;
• Development and dissemination of best practices in the use of civic tech tools.

The expected result of the grant program is partner CSOs conduct advocacy and information campaigns and cooperate with local authorities using civic tech tools.

Activities under the grant program may include the following (but are not limited to):

• creation and development of information channels, conducting information campaigns to raise public awareness about civic tech;
• development and advocacy of public regulations at the local level or local policies for the implementation of civic tech tools;
• establishing or strengthening partnerships between interested CSOs and local authorities to address local problems and pandemic challenges through civic tech tools;
• popularization of civic tech tools among vulnerable groups to involve them more widely in solving community problems;
• improvement of the technical component of civic tech tools, but this cannot be the major focus of the project;
• other activities aimed at increasing the overall capacity of the CSO sector, local authorities, and the media to use civic tech tools at the community level.

The grant program is part of  activities aimed at strengthening NGO`s resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The selected partner organizations will receive a unique opportunity for organizational development. They will be offered tools for capacity assessment and a plan for developing organizational capacity, improving management skills (including leadership coaching), online courses, and more.

Funding Information

• The maximum grant amount is up to 550,000 UAH for one organization.
• The expected duration of the projects is 6 months.

Eligibility Criteria

EEF invites officially registered civil society organizations from all regions of Ukraine located in the territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine to take part in the grant program.

Selection Criteria

• compliance of the planned activity with the conditions of the program;
• achievability and viability of the project, clear identification of risks;
• innovativeness of the application, use of non-standard approaches;
• application of an integrated gender approach in project development;
• the potential of members of the organization and involved specialists;
• previous experience of the organization in the implementation of similar projects;
• the presence of a previous history of interaction with the authorities;
• availability of partnerships with mass media, analytical centers, external experts;
• budgetary soundness.

For more information, visit East Europe Foundation.