European Instrument for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR)

The EIDHR instrument can grant aid where no established development cooperation exists, and can intervene without the agreement of the governments of third countries. It can support groups or individuals within civil society defending democracy as well as intergovernmental organisations that implement the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights. 

Assistance may take the following forms:

* projects and programmes,

* grants to finance projects submitted by civil society and/or international/intergovernmental organizations

* small grants to human rights defenders,

* grants to support operating costs of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation(EIUC)

* human and material resources for EU election observation missions

*public contracts

Based on the new Financial Regulation, the EIDHR includes the possibility under certain circumstances to finance not only registered organisations, but also non-legal entities. It furthermore provides the possibility of "re-granting" meaning that in order to enhance human rights in situation were they are most at risk, civil society organizations in charge of the project implementation can award small grants to other local organizations, non-legal entities or individual human rights defenders.

Who is eligible for funding?

The entities eligible for funding depending on the specific objectives of each action/call for proposal are:

* civil society organisations;

* public- and private-sector non-profit organisations;

* national, regional and international parliamentary bodies, where the proposed measure cannot be financed under a related Community external assistance instrument;

* international and regional inter-governmental organisations;

* natural persons, where their help is necessary for achieving the aims of the EIDHR.

For more information, please visit the website of European Commission External Cooperation Programmes

17. August 2010 in Förderung

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