Europe’s funding for Development Cooperation is complex. Although it provides non-governmental organizations like Save the Children International with numerous funding opportunities, few know how to access them. The European Commission’s thematic, horizontal and geographic instruments apply to a wide range of countries. Some parts of these instruments are planned and managed at EC headquarters in Brussels. Other parts are planned and managed by EC delegations or by national authorities or government agencies in the member states.
Over time, the EU has developed a broad spectrum of external aid programmes, which has resulted in a complex set of more than 30 different legal instruments. The need to facilitate coherence and improve consistency in the European Union’s actions, as well as achieve better results and a higher impact with available resources, has led the European Commission to propose a simplified framework for external actions over the 2007-2013 period.
Under Calls for proposals, EU Facts and Newsletters you will find links to many of these external aid programmes, and programmes which are handled by our Swedish national authorities or government agencies, as well as general information about the European Union and the member states.
EU Calls for proposals forecast 2011-2013 for NGOs
The European Commission has published forecast of the next in country Non-State-Actor calls from 2011 to 2013. Non-State Actors (NSA) is an EU-term for non-governmental organizations. The forecast of the calls from 2011 to 2013 details the amounts funding for each call for proposals, per country, the estimated publication date as well as the priorities for 2011. You find the document here.
You can also find the new Non-State Actors-Local Authorities (NSA-LA) multiannual strategy for 2011-2013 on Europe Aid’s website. It provides information on what they will fund next and an analysis of what they have funded to date. You find the document here.