The National Cooperation Fund’s call for applications for operational funding for 2013 has been released. The aim of the funding is to contribute to the strengthening of civil society and to assist civil society organisations in taking up a role in society. At the same time, the results have been announced of the 2012 calls for applications from specialists, which will distribute a total of HUF 854 million to realise the specialist programmes of civil society organisations.
The deadline for applications for operational funding for 2013 is 11 December 2012. Funding available for individual civil society organisations will range from HUF 250,000 to HUF 4 million.
The bodies of the Fund have judged the 2012 calls for applications for specialists, in which 652 civil society organisations applied for a total of more than HUF 854 million. Contracts will be sent to the organisations next week, and so the agreed funding can be delivered this month.
Further information on the announcement and results of calls for applications can be found on http://civil.kormany.hu. Civil Information Centres in every county are also assisting groups in the preparation of applications.
Last December Parliament adopted the new law on civil society organisations, which created the National Cooperation Fund in order to support the specialist activities of those organisations. Thus a transparent, effective funding system free of abuses has been created in the civil sphere. Unified procedures (far simpler than in the earlier systems for calls for applications), together with guarantees from the Fund serve to promote organisations’ predictable, stable and balanced operation.
(Office of the Human Rights Working Group, EMMI)
