Under the framework of the European Union/Council of Europe joint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye”, and its action “Towards an equal, inclusive and tolerant Bosnia and Herzegovina”, the Council of Europe is launching a call for proposals with the aim to fund concrete responses on combating discrimination, including discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and/or gender identity and combating hate speech.

The deadline for the submission of applications is until 19 November 2023 (at 23:59 CET).

Applications should be sent to the following e-mail address: [email protected].

An informative session about the grant procedure  will be held online on 6 November 2023 via this link (Meeting ID: 313 997 955 527; Passcode: Wuosd5) at 14:00. In case you cannot join online, please, write us on the email [email protected]  until 1 November 2023 15:00, for an alternative solution.

 Call for proposals

 Appendix I - Application Form

 Appendix II - Provisional budget (Template)

 Appendix III - Template Grant Agreement (for information only)

 

 In accordance with the Article 8.4 of Rule 1374 of 16 December 2015 on the grant award procedures of the Council of Europe and regarding the Call for Proposals for a grant for local self-governments and/or civil society organisations for fighting discrimination and hate speech published on 17 October 2023, below please find reply to the respective question.

Q1: Document "Appendix III  - Template Grant Agreement"  states that expenses that will not be considered as eligible costs are: VAT recoverable under the applicable national VAT legislation.

Does this mean that you do not recognize the VAT costs for all invoices; that in the estimated budget we should put invoices costs without VAT, and also in the financial report?

Q2: Another question is regarding references for previously implemented projects. Does this mean the list of previous projects or contact information of donors?

 

A1: The projects under the grant procedures will not be exempted from payment of VAT, but VAT costs are eligible under our grant procedures, are to be included in the proposed budget and are to be considered eligible in the final financial report.

A2: Any kind of reference would be accepted.