Funding Programme

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) is the EU's funding programme for citizens' engagement and the implementation of EU rights and values. Read more about CERV here.

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Call overview

This call aims to fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children.

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Call detail

This call, diveded into 4 priorities, aims at financing projects that will:

1. support the development of large-scale, long-term actions on tackling gender-based violence, with regranting (giving financial support to third party Civil Society Organisations)
2. protect and support victims and survivors of gender-based violence and domestic violence
3. ‍prevent gender-based violence, including cyber violence
4. make integrated child protection systems work in practice

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Background

Gender-based violence is violence directed against individuals because of their gender, with women and girls making up the vast majority of victims. Gender-based violence remains one of our societies’ biggest challenges and is deeply rooted in gender inequality. It is both a cause and consequence of gender inequalities. It is a violation of human rights and the most brutal form of discrimination on the basis of sex, and results from unequal power relations between women and men.

Read more in the call document.

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Objectives

To fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children by:

• Preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in all their diversity and domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
• Preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people and other groups at risk, such as LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities;
• Supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of the forms of violence referred to in points (1) and (2), such as the victims of domestic violence perpetrated within the family or within intimate relationships, including children orphaned as a result of domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence.

Read more in the call document.

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Activities that can be funded

Activities shall include:

• Awareness-raising, including social media or press campaigns, outreach and empowerment activities, including communication activities and dissemination of information;
• Capacity building and training for professionals and relevant stakeholders, in particular train-the-trainer programmes, training activities of national, regional and local authorities;
• Design and implementation of strategies, protocols, development of transferable working methods and tools, coordination of platforms and groups;
• Design of services and measures improving access to victim support services and development of guidelines and manuals for these support services
• Identification and exchange of good practices, cooperation, mutual learning, development of working and learning methods, including transferable mentoring programmes;
• Development of resources, toolkits and manuals to provide practical guidance for specialised support services;
• Analytical activities, such as research, and the creation and implementation of tools or data bases/data collection strategies and systems.

Proposals in Priority 1 must include both categories of activities:

• Financial support to third parties (CSOs) by intermediaries
• b) Capacity building for CSOs by intermediaries

‍Read more in the call document.

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Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

− be legal entities (public or private bodies)

− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• non-EU countries: countries associated to the CERV Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries).

Private entities directly involving children in the activities of the project must provide a Child Protection Policy (CPP) covering the four areas described in Keeping Children Safe Child Safeguarding Standards.

Public entities (e.g. local authorities, ministries, etc.) can satisfy this obligation by submitting a declaration on honour from their legal representatives.

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Consortium composition

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Priority 1: long-term and large-scale actions on gender-based violence with financial support to third parties (regranting to smaller grass root Civil Society Organisations)

• Applications can be submitted by a single applicant or a consortium, (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
• Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
• The project can be either national or transnational.

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‍Priority 2: victim support

• ‍‍The application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
• Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
• The project can be either national or transnational

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‍Priority 3: prevention of violence‍

• ‍‍The application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
• Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
• The project can be either national or transnational

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‍Priority 4: child protection systems‍

• The application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
• The application must involve at least one public authority (at municipal/local, regional or national level) as lead applicant or co-applicant (partner);
• Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
• The project can be either national or transnational;

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Budget

The estimated available call budget is EUR 23 000 000.

Project budget:

• ‍Priority 1: The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 1 000 000 and higher than EUR 3 000 000.
• ‍Priority 2: the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000.
• Priority 3: the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000.
• ‍‍Priority 4: The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000.

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Duration

• For Priority 1: Projects must range between 24 and 36 months.
• For Priorities 2 to 4: Projects must range between 12 and 24 months.