The European Commission invites expression of interests to strengthen civil society organisations in EU partner countries.
Activities funded under the programme will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations.
Categories
- Human Rights and Democracy (HRD): The global objective is promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law in Uzbekistan.
- Civil Society Organisations (CSO): The global objective is to strengthen local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as independent actors of good governance and development in Uzbekistan.
Objectives
- Human Rights and Democracy (HRD): The specific objective(s) are:
- Protecting and promoting civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights;
- Enhance the capacity of local civil society activists and CSOs to actively engage in promoting youth inclusion and empowerment, gender equality and women’s empowerment, media literacy, and environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives;
- Safeguarding fundamental freedoms, including harnessing the opportunities and addressing the challenges of new technologies: to create and maintain an environment conducive to the full exercise of all fundamental freedoms, online and offline.
- Civil Society Organisations (CSO): The specific objective(s) are:
- strengthening capacities of local CSOs to engage in policy dialogue at national level and in dialogue, implementation and monitoring of national development programmes and plans;
- to increase the capacity of civil society organisations to perform their role as independent development actors more effectively and to enhance efforts to promote a conducive environment for CSOs;
- to improve capacity and ability of local CSOs to uphold and promote an enabling environment and democratic space in Uzbekistan, to support local administrations in the implementation and monitoring of the national initiatives and plans on decentralisation and implementation of the Agenda 2030 SDGs.
Deadline Date: August 22, 2025.
