About the Fund
The goal of the fund is to promote documentation of cases of discrimination, hate crimes and other human rights violations against LGBT people according to the international human rights standards.
The small pilot fund will support small and medium-scale projects (up to 5,000 euros with no minimal amount requirement) intended to document (cases of) discrimination, hate crimes and other human rights violations committed on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, as well as dissemination of the documented information.
Priority areas:
- hate crimes and hate speech (including in media)
- human rights violations by law-enforcement authorities
- legal position of LGBT people in an eligible country
- freedom of assembly and association
- discrimination and hate crimes on the grounds of gender identity and expression
The information contained in the documentation reports will subsequently be used by ILGA-Europe in its lobbying activities with the European institutions: European Union, Council of Europe and the OSCE.
Eligibility criteria:
- proposals will be accepted from officially registered with local authorities LGBT organisations or initiative groups (in countries, where there are no registered LGBT NGOs);
- countries eligible are Western NIS (Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus), Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), the Western Balkans (Albania and former Yugoslavia), the 12 new EU member states and the EU accession countries;
- for projects on documentation of human rights violations on the grounds of gender identity and expression ALL European countries are eligible.
The documentation grant is awarded for the purposes of collection, organisation, measurement and analysis of information). The applicants for documentation grants should not include dissemination activities or printing costs in their budget.
The dissemination grant is awarded for the purposes of publication (print, internet, CD, etc.) and / or use of documented data for advocacy. To apply for this type of grant, you already need to have information collected, organised and analysed.
