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Call for Granting: Capacity Building and Advocacy Grant Program for sustainable rural development in the Western Balkans

Network for Rural Development of Serbia, on behalf of consortium of partners: Development Foundation of Turkey, Turkey; Network For Rural Development of Montenegro; Network for Rural Development of Macedonia; Network for Rural Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Institue for Democacy and Mediation, Albania; Network of Organisation for Rurad Development of Kosovo; Croatian Rural Development Network and Latvian Rural Forum, Latvia, announces:

CALL FOR GRANTING
for Capacity Building and Advocacy Grant Program for sustainable rural development in the Western Balkans

We are inviting civil society organisations (CSOs) to submit Full applications related for Capacity Building and Advocacy initiative in one of the thematic areas of sustainable rural development:

  • LEADER and CLLD (Community Led Local Development) approaches;
  • Rural development;
  • Sustainable management of Natural resources;
  • Environment protection; Social economy;
  • Innovation in socio-economic development;
  • Sustainable agriculture;
  • Diversification of economic activities in rural areas.

The Call is opened until 17 December 2017 at 23.59 hours for all CSOs from Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo* active in different aspects of sustainable rural development.
More information about conditions for applying can be found in Guidelines for applicants with accompanying annexes at webpage http://www.balkan-noborder.com or download the documents below:

Below you can refer to the application package in Albanian:

Also if you need more information about conditions for applying you can contact national coordinator for Albania by email: [email protected] and [email protected].

Civil Society Organizations with successful application will be granted with maximum 17.000 Euros per grant. Minimum 14 best project proposals for sustainable rural development will be granted to implement projects in period 1st February 2018 – 31st October 2018. Minimum two grants will be awarded in each mentioned country. The Granting Programme is conducted as part of the project “ALTER – Active Local Territories for Economic development of Rural Areas”, a four year project funded by the European Union.