April 29th, 2009 was a deadline to submit applications for the 5th call for proposals under the Fund for Non-Governmental Organisations - priority "Democracy and Civic Society". The current edition concerned MICRO and SMALL projects.

Allocation for the 5th call for proposal amounts 1 700 000 euro:
- 200 000 euro for MICRO projects;
- 1 500 000 euro for SMALL projects.

REGISTRATION OF APPLICATION
Till the 14th of May 734 applications has been submitted to Intermediary: 316 MICRO projects and 418 SMALL projects:
Applications registered till the 14th of May

FORMAL EVALUATION
On the 20th of May the formal assessement has been complited.

The list of the formally approved applications
The list of the formally rejected applications

All formally approved applications have been sent to experts for a content-related evaluation.
The results of the formal evaluation may be appealed to the Evaluation Committee within 14 days from the date of publication on the website. In the present round the deadline is the 3rd of June. The Evaluation Committee will consider possible appeals within 7 days from the appeals deadline. Any appeals that are judged positively will undergo a qualitative evaluation of the project.
Rejected applications will not be submitted to the qualitative evaluation.

CONTENT RELATED EVALUATION
Applications where all formal questions were answered positively were sent to experts for an evaluation of the project contents.
Applications are evaluated by external independent experts selected through a competition. The experts evaluate the project according to the content evaluation criteria setlled for the component 'Democracy and civil society' (described in the 'Guidlines for Applicants').

The list of the applications evaluated by experts was sent for acceptance to the Evaluation Committee appointed by the Management Board of the Co-operation Fund Foundation.
The Evaluation Committee consists of specialists with a profound knowledge of the non-governmental organisations sector, a representative of the Co-operation Fund Foundation as the Committee's Secretary (without a vote), and observers acting on behalf of the Donor states, National Focal Point and a representative of the second Intermediary of the Fund for Non-Governmental Organisations. 

The Evaluation Committee was provided only with projects that have received the highest rating in the final evaluation and the sum total of the grants applied for amounts to 150% of the allocation value assigned for the certain type of projects in a given round of the call for proposals (see chapter 6.3 of the Guidelines for Applicants).

The Evaluation Committee reserves the right to modify the evaluations made by experts, introduce changes in the project's planned tasks and the budget amount and structure.
In the case of equal ratings assigned by the Evaluation Committee, the financing is first granted for the implementation of projects submitted by Applicants from regions of the lower social activity and for projects dealing with subjects especially vital from the perspective of NGOF’s goals.

SUBSTANTIVE EVALUATION RESULTS
On the 30th of June 2009 the Evaluation Committee decided about co-financing projects submitted for the V call for proposals.

The budget for MICRO projects amounts 200 000 EUR (927 580 PLN). Evaluation Committee decided about co-financing of 17 MICRO projects:
The ranking list of the MICRO projects

The budget for MEDIUM projects amounts 1 500 000 EUR (6 956 850 PLN). Evaluation Committee decided about co-financing of 40 SMALL projects.
The ranking list of SMALL projects

The Applicants will be informed about the decisions of the Evaluation Committee in writing. Each Applicant will receive opinions of experts who evaluated the particular project.