Small grants scheme for communities in Serbia

The call is now closed. For the list of selected projects, please scroll down.

Covid19 has posed unprecedented challenges for communities across Serbia, placing an enormous economic, social, political, and cultural strain upon society. It has exposed deficiencies in public health provisions and messaging, and heavily impacted the already precarious livelihoods of many residents. Furthermore, Covid19 has particularly affected marginalised and non-majority communities, who enjoy unequal levels of access to resources and information in their own languages.

Civil society has an important role to play in helping communities deal with the consequences of Covid19. Only those civil society actors on the ground, close to the communities they serve, can truly understand the specific problems created by Covid19. Accordingly, this call places a strong emphasis on projects that reflect the needs of the local community and tackle a well-defined problem.

Recognizing the crucial role that grassroots civil society organisations (CSOs) and informal groups can play in acting as agents of change and advocating on behalf of members, this grant scheme is seeking to support local-level, community-based initiatives that help deal with the impact of Covid19 on local communities, whilst cutting across ethnic divisions.

In Serbia, this grant scheme is open to CSOs and informal groups to implement projects in the following local self-governments/municipalities in Serbia: Bujanovac, Lebane, Vranje. The project objective and results should target residents or other stakeholders located in those local self-government units.

For detailed call for application and necessary documents, please follow the links below:

Srpski 

Shqip 

English 

For all questions: Questions and Answers

Contact: alved.grants@peopleinneed.cz

List of projects selected for funding: Serbia

1. Shoqata Beyond with the Local Youth Office:

Te gatshem ndaj sfidave

(Ready for challenges)

Bujanovac

2. Centar za ravnomerni regionalni razvoj CenTriR (Belgrade) with Ruza - women's association from Lebane:

Na klik do kupaca - podrška ženama iz ruralnih područja za online plasman domaćih proizvoda

(Click to customers - support for women from rural areas for online marketing of domestic products)

Lebane

3. UDRUŽENJE ROMKINJA BUJANOVAC

Zajedno smo snažnije (Together we are stronger)

Bujanovac

4. Centar za aktivizam Vranje

Žene to mogu! (Women can do it!)

Vranje, Bujanovac

5. Udruženje građana ODBOR ZA LJUDSKA PRAVA VRANJE

ZDRAVLJE ŽENA I COVID-19 (besplatni preventivni pregledi i reproduktivno zdravlje žena u korona virusu)

(WOMEN'S HEALTH AND COVID-19 (free preventive examinations and reproductive health of women in coronavirus))

Vranje, Bujanovac