Sep 24, 2008

CfA: Grant Competition, Kosovo

CfA:
„Local Entrepreneurship Centers for Women”: Grant Competition for Non-Governmental Organizations from the Dukagjini Region in Kosovo.

Partners Polska Foundation and Visioni Ri announce a grant competition for Non-Governmental Organizations from the Dukagjini Region „Local Entrepreneurship Centers for Women”.

Within the Competition projects for professional activation of women and increasing their qualifications will be financed. The grants will serve to implement pilot initiatives supporting mutual assistance activities among women.

The Competition „Local Entrepreneurship Centers for Women” serves the purpose of reducing unemployment among women. Thus the Competition aims at supporting initiatives that serve:

A. Increasing the level of competences of unemployed women in the sphere of planning and managing own business. In particular the Competition supports the initiatives which increase the access to knowledge and skills for women from rural regions, young mothers and women in retirement age;
B. Building professional relationships between women conducting their own companies and the unemployed, as well as exchanging experiences regarding starting and managing own business activity;
Financial support shall in particular be granted to initiatives of the organizations which:
• will conduct activities for professional activation of women and enhancing their qualifications, especially by initiating mutual assistance activities in a given place;
• will offer and conduct courses/trainings that are important for building enterprising attitudes;
• will initiate and conduct meetings of local businesswomen with the unemployed that will serve for exchanging experiences and building relations between women possessing and searching for jobs.

The financed projects should be realized between 1 October and 10 December 2008. The value of one grant will be from 800 to 1200 Euro; the Organizers will admit no more than four grants. The deadline for sending the applications is 25 September 2008 at 17.00 o’clock. The application forms are available in the office of the Organizers or by e-mail after expressing such need by organization planning to participate in the Competition:

IFK-Vizioni ri
Çarshia e Jupave
Ismajl Qemali Nr.9
Gjakovë, Kosovo/a
e-mail: vizioniri@gmail. com

The project “Local Entrepreneurship Centers for Women in Kosovo” is co-financed by
the Polish aid programme 2008 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

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Ewa Pieszczyk
tel. 0 507 097 066


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