European Grant Competition 2021

Project title

1.1. Organization’s name in English

1.2. Organization’s name in mother tongue

Start date

End date

1.4. Organization’s full address

1.5. Website

1.6. The organization registration number

1.7. Are you a community foundation?
Only community foundations are eligible to apply in the Competition

Yes

No

1.8. Are you a grant-making organization?

Yes

No

If yes, please describe shortly your activity in this field

1.9. Contact person

1.10. Contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, skype)

2.1. Please, introduce briefly your organisation. What are your main activities and fields of interest? (1000 characters)

2.2. How does this project fit into your previous activities? Is it a continuation of your previous activities? (1000 characters)

2.3. Did you tackle SDGs in your other projects? Did you touch the idea of SDGs before?

Name of project/program:

Explanation:

2.4. What do you understand by local community responsive to global challenges? How, in your opinion, should it operate? (1000 characters)

2.5. Describe briefly your resources (staff, knowledge, facilities etc.) that may be useful during the implementation of this project. (1500 characters)

Submitted projects should refer to at least one of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), select up to six targets

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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

1.1By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day

1.2By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

1.5By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

2.1By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

2.2By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

2.3By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

2.5By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

3.3By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

3.5Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol

3.6By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents

3.7By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

3.9By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

4.1By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes

4.2By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education

4.3By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

4.4By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

4.5By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5.1End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.2Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.3Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

5.4Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

5.5Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

5.BEnhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

6.1By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

6.2By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations

6.3By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally

6.4By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

6.6By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

6.BSupport and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management

8.Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

8.5By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.6By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

8.7Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms

8.9By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

10.Reduce inequality within and among countries

10.2By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

11.1By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums

11.2By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons

11.3By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries

11.4Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage

11.7By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

12.2By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

12.3By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

12.4By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

12.5By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.8By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13.3Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

14.1By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

14.2By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

15.1By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements

15.3By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

15.5Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

15.7Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

16.1Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere

16.2End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

16.5Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms

17.Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

17.17Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

3.1. Start with the challenge you would like to influence by this project. What is the most crucial challenge (out of the listed above) that your community face? How does it influence local community? What is the scope of the challenge? (max. 1500 characters)

3.2. How did you identify the need, the above mentioned challenge? Did you carry out any research, analysis? What methods did you choose? (max. 1000 characters)

3.3. How would you like to respond to this challenge within this project? Please present the general strategy for the implementation of this project, by listing and describing all the activities you plan to undertake on a local level to make a change. Use bullet points where appropriate. (max. 1500 characters)

3.4. What outcomes and concrete effects would you like to achieve within this project in order to change the situation described in 3.1 and accomplish the targets (within SDGs) that you have selected? (max. 1500 characters)? (max. 1500 characters)

3.5. How are you going to measure these outcomes? What will indicate the success of your idea? (max. 1500 characters)

3.6. Local community should play a crucial role in the process of making a change. In what way do you plan to engage the local community in the implementation of this project? How will you know if the local community has been influenced? What kind of actions will its members be involved in? (max. 1500 characters)

3.7. What kind of other partners (institutions, media, donors, individuals) would you like to engage in your activities in order to achieve the above mentioned change? Why do you think you have the best potential of influencing, what your organization does and where you fit in the community? (max. 1500 characters)

3.8. Have you planned a communication strategy about this project? How are you going to reach your community and partners? (max. 1500 characters)

3.9. Do you plan to continue the activities started within this project after it ends? If so, how? (max. 1500 characters)

3.10. How are you going to increase your organization’s knowledge about the SDGs or a specific<br /> SDG during the project period? (max. 1500 characters)

3.11. Do you inform and educate your community about SDGs, its idea and importance? If so, please choose all that are applicable.

I do not educate community about SDGs

On our website

In our social media

On workshops, trainings for local community

During our open events

3.12. In relation to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, how will you organize appropriate protective measures to ensure safety during your project’s lifetime? (max. 1500 characters)