Non Governmental Organisation support in Greece through European Economic Area Grants - Call for expressions of interest for NGO Fund Operator

9/2/2012

The Memorandum of Understanding between Greeceand the three donor states of the European Economic Areas (EEA) Grants for the period 2009-2014 came into force on 8 November 2011. The EEA Grants (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) in Greeceinclude a 6.340.000€ allocation aimed at strengthening civil society development and exclusively earmarked for NGOs, to be implemented within the next five years through an NGO Programme. The Fund Operator for the NGO Programme will be contracted directly by the Financial Mechanism Office in Brussels. In order to establish the list of invitees, the Financial Mechanism Office is launching a call for expressions of interest to organisations wishing to apply for the role of Fund Operator.

The organisations shall be autonomous of government, with strong ties to the NGO sector in the country and with re-granting experience and financial capacity, as detailed in the Guideline referred to below. Based on these criteria, a final list, usually between 3 – 8 organisations shall be established. The selected short-listed organisations shall be invited to submit a full application and shall receive the specific Terms of Reference relating to the set-up and implementation of the NGO Programme inGreece. Expressions of interest may also be submitted by a consortium.

General information on the overall NGO Programme objective and outcomes can be found in the paper on Programme Area Funds for Non-Governmental Organisations. Information relating to general principles of the NGO Programmes can be found in the NGO Programme Guideline. These documents and further information on the EEA and Norway Grants are available on www.eeagrants.org.

Please fill in this: expression of interest form should you be interested. The deadline for submission of completed forms to the FMO to the following address NGO-proposals@efta.int is 29 February 2012.

For questions please contact Patrizia Brandellero, Civil society coordinator at the Financial Mechanism Office at pbr@efta.int.