01/12/2025
📢We have a new Open Call for Ukraine! 📢
The New Democracy Fund now offers influential Ukrainian CSOs to submit an application for the New Democracy Fund’s Strategic Grant Cycle 2025–2026, focused on justice, accountability, transparency, and anti-corruption.
We invite CSOs that hold established roles in national level working groups and maintain strong networks and policy influence. We encourage young, and regional, local CSOs to participate as co-applicants in partnership with these influential implementing organizations, creating consortiums and collaboration mechanisms able to bring political change and ensure broad coverage across the country in achieving the project’s goals.
📌 What We Will Support
Projects that aim to:
· Strengthen democratic institutions, human rights, and the rule of law at national and regional levels.
· Promote pluralism, civic participation, and inclusive governance in line with the Copenhagen Criteria.
· Build institutional resilience through improved governance, transparency in economy and formalization of labour. financial sustainability, and digital security.
· Contribute analytical insights into EU integration processes and their implications for local communities, aiming improving local anti-corruption measures, and increasing transparency in recovery and reconstruction.
📌Who Can Apply
Eligible actors include independent CSOs, analytical institutions/think tanks, coalitions and networks, media actors and media-related NGOs, as well as business associations, trade unions, employers’ organisations, and labour-rights NGOs engaged in democratic governance, human rights and rule-of-law efforts.
📌Available Funding
· Total envelope: approximately DKK 4 875 000 (EUR 650 000).
· Expected portfolio: 4-5 grants.
· Grant size: determined by organisational capacity, strategic relevance, and proposed activities.
· Funds will be disbursed in phases tied to agreed milestones; all activities must be completed by December 1, 2026.
· Grantees receiving more than DKK 100,000 (≈ EUR 13,000) will undertake a capacity assessment leading to a tailored development plan embedded in the grant agreement.
📌 How to Apply
Visit our webpage to find all the information you need to apply for this call here: https://www.newdemocracyfund.org/open-call-for-expressions-of-interest-for-ukraine/
Or apply directly by via this link:
https://ndf-ncm.applyportal.org/profile/ #/login
📌Deadline for submission is 10 December 2025 at 23:59 CET
