NGO Fund of the EEA/Norway Grants

The Autonómia Foundation, in cooperation with the Ökotárs Foundation, the Foundation for the Development of Democratic Rights and the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary, managed the EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism Civil Society Support Fund, which supported Hungarian civil society organisations in four thematic areas: environmental protection; capacity building for civil society organisations; social cohesion, child and health protection; and cultural heritage.

Between 2008 and 2010, 240 projects were awarded funding from more than two thousand applications, totalling approximately 6.3 million euros.

Autonómia was responsible for calls for proposals in the thematic area of social cohesion, child and health protection. Within this thematic area, we identified five types of activities: the introduction and dissemination of new methods; services to be implemented in the social and health sectors; community development; education, awareness-raising and after-school (tanoda-type) programmes; and applications which, due to their uniqueness or complexity, cannot be classified under the above categories.

The methods tested during the implementation – such as the simplification of grant applications, the online application system, continuous feedback, partnership-based cooperation and the introduction of a two-stage procedure – provided valuable experience for future support programmes and served as best practice for other funding schemes.

WEBPAGE: www.norvegcivilalap.hu

SUPPORTED PROJECTS

Summary and Evaluation