The Etkiniz EU Programme will now prioritise requests for support from civil society organisations working on monitoring and advocacy in the field of combating violence against women, children and LGBTI+ at the assessment stage.

Etkiniz aims to prioritise supporting the monitoring and advocacy work and access to international human rights monitoring mechanisms of civil society organisations working on monitoring and advocacy in the field of combating violence against women, children and LGBTI+, and to help increase the visibility of their work. Etkiniz normally assesses the compliance of requests for support once every two months, but it will now respond within two weeks to support requests from CSOs who carry out/will carry out monitoring work in related fields.

CSOs need only add the phrase “Combating Violence” to the work title field during their applications to Etkiniz’s Human Rights Monitoring and Access to International Human Rights Monitoring support for the assessment of their application to be prioritised.

You may find out more about the scope of the support to the provided to CSOs below, or visit https://etkiniz.eu/english/support/ for detailed information on Etkiniz support.

For details of Support for Human Rights Monitoring, please visit.

For details of Support for Access to International Human Rights Mechanisms, please visit.

Which activities can CSOs run with Etkiniz support in the field of combating violence against women, children and LGBTI+?

• Report preparation and dissemination,
• Translation, printing and dissemination of previously prepared documents,
• Informational, campaign and advocacy work,
• Organising online dialogue meetings,
• Monitoring court cases with legal counselling.

The activities listed above are given by way of example. Activities that may be carried out using Etkiniz support are not limited to the above.

Eligible costs:

You may request support for the following types of costs under the two support categories of Etkiniz:

• Meeting costs (Only for online meetings depending on the course of pandemic),
• Stationary costs,
• Written translation (reports, flyers, videos etc.),
• Interpretation (simultaneous and consecutive),
• Sign language interpretation,
• Equipment rentals,
• Website design, software and management (Support under the website design is only provided if it is considered to be vitally necessary for the realisation of the advocacy phase of the human rights monitoring work. Other websites, such as the overall organisation website for the CSOs, are not covered by this support heading.),
• Software purchasing and membership costs (database, storage, design etc.),
• Design and management of social media tools,
• Domain name and hosting,
• Design, editing, printing and dissemination of visibility, information and publicity materials.

The following costs will be assessed in light of potential pandemic limitation during dates of travel:

• International / intercity travel
• Stay (room and breakfast),
• Passport and visa fees,
• Travel insurance, departure fees for Turkish citizens.

Please also visit Etkiniz EU Programme Guidelines for Request for Support.

Support Desk

For any further questions, you may contact the Etkiniz EU Programme Support Desk by sending an e-mail to destek@etkiniz.eu