Priority topics for this year are the following:

 

1. Independent media

   a. Quality content and independent media outlets.

   b. Disinformation, fact checking.

   c. War reporting.

   d. Fight against corruption and EU association process.

 

2. Support of human rights, human rights defenders and civil society

   a. Assistance to human rights defenders under war conditions.

   b. Monitoring of human rights situation in unoccupied and temporarily occupied territories.

   c. Monitoring situation in Crimea (with focus on Crimean Tatars).

 

 3. Right to education

   a. Capacity building of school management staff and teachers in war conditions.

 

4. Right to healthy environment

   a. Supporting ecological initiatives and activism, including grass roots

 

Eligible applicants are non-profit civil society organizations officially registered in Ukraine. The average contribution will be in the range of 720 000 - 2 800 000 UAH for each individual project. The implementation period is estimated to be 6 months from May 2023 to October 2023. Applicants are strongly encouraged to include its core team wellbeing costs (such as psychological support, retreats, commercial medical insurance etc.) into the budget.

Applications should be submitted electronically to grants.ukraine@mzv.cz on official project and budget forms by 23:00 (Kyiv time) March 24, 2023. Applications sent after the deadline will not be accepted.

Detail instructions Transition Promotion Program 2023 (DOCX, 20 KB), list of eligible costs Eligible Costs (DOC, 66 KB), official project Project Form (DOC, 397 KB) and identification (budget) Identification (Budget) Form (XLSX, 30 KB) forms are attached.

Please read the instructions carefully and don't send any other documents, such as CVs, registration forms etc.!