.: Democracy and civil society :.

April 29th, 2008 was a deadline to submit applications for the 3rd call for proposals under the Fund for Non-Governmental Organisations - priority "Democracy and Civic Society". The current edition concerned SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE projects.

Allocation for the 3rd call for proposal amounts 4 000 000 euro:
- 1 500 000 euro for SMALL projects;
- 1 000 000 euro for MEDIUM projects;
- 1 500 000 euro for LARGE projects.

REGISTRATION OF APPLICATIONS
The register of ALL paper applications submitted is lited below.
Register of applications submitted

FORMAL EVALUATION
On 19th of May the formal evaluation has been completed.
List of the formally approved applications
List of the formally rejected applications

Applications where all formal-check questions were answered positively 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 2nd 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.
Each application was evaluated by two external independent experts selected through a competition. The experts evaluated 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 4.3 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 will be 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 30th of June Evaluation Committee decided about co-financing projects submitted for the III call for proposals:

LIST of the SMALL projects

LIST of the MEDIUM projects

LIST of the LARGE projects

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

We encourage everyone to submit projects under the 4th call for proposals. The call for MICRO and MEDIUM projects will be open 16.08-16.10.2008.