The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), together with the East Europe Foundation (EEF), with the support of the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (Norad) and in partnership with Sweden (Sida), is implementing a three-year project “Empowering Civil Society for Ukraine’s Resilience and Recovery” (“Impulse”). As part of this project, a Call for Institutional Grants was announced for organizations from the regions of Ukraine most affected by the war.
It aims to enhance the capacity of Ukrainian civil society organizations (CSOs) to set and achieve development goals that will contribute to Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, early recovery, and democratic governance reforms.
The Expert Council of the Democracy and Good Governance Program, which conducted the competition, supported 29 out of 430 draft proposals. The winners of the competition are:
- NGO “Global Vision”
- NGO “Dobrobat — a volunteer building division”
- NGO “Center for Innovations Development”
- NGO “EdCamp Ukraine”
- NGO “Econsense”
- NGO “The Human Rights Group “SICH””
- All-Ukrainian NGO “Association for Promoting Self-Organization of the Population”
- NGO “Centre for Society Research (Cedos)”
- NGO “Center for Public Initiatives “Intelect of Sumy Region””
- NGO “Polissia Foundation Of International And Interregional Researches”
- NGO “Logistic Center For Community Development”
- NGO “Access Point”
- NGO “”Renaissance and Development” Association”
- Public Coalition “Stop poisoning Kryvyi Rih”
- NGO “Ukrainian Paralegal Association”
- Charity Organization “Charity Fund “Winds of Change””
- NGO “LGBT Association “Liga””
- NGO Center “Dobrochyn”
- NGO “Public Initiative of Luhansk Region”
- NGO “League of Changes”
- NGO “Institute For Sustainable Development Of Communities”
- NGO “Interregional Institute For Community Development”
- NGO “Kinburn”
- NGO “Center Of An Innovation Development “Persona””
- NGO “Bery i Slav”
- Charity Organization “Foundation Of Voznesensk Community”
- NGO “New Energy”
- NGO “Local Initiatives Agency”
- NGO “Union Of Responsible Citizens”
In the near future, representatives of the Foundation will contact the winning organizations to agree on the next steps.
