Combatting Trafficking in Women

The call is intended to complement the range of instruments currently available in the EU to promote gender equality, including those that prevent and combat trafficking in women, in particular, by reinforcing the capacity of NGO's or equivalent organisations working in the field of trafficking in women to create/strength networking and to facilitate transnational exchange, transfer of information, experience and good practice.

The Commission intends to focus the Community support towards operating costs around the following objectives:

• Capacity building through cooperation, networking and training.
• Awareness rising through studies, campaigns and/or conferences/seminars.
• Dissemination of information, best practises and new knowledge.

The results will have to be widely disseminated by the beneficiaries of the grant. Priority for funding will be given to proposals addressing the theme: "Trafficking in women"

The Commission proposes to co-fund one operating grant up to a maximum of €350,000.

The proposals must be sent to the Commission not later than 15 February 2006

Transnationality
Actions under this call for proposals must be transnational in scope and be implemented by actors established in at least three (in total) Member States of the European Union.

WHO CAN APPLY?
The applicant organisation must be:

• A non-governmental organisation (NGO) or equivalent organisation, non- profitmaking, representing a network of NGOs, other than the members of the European Women's Lobby, active at European level. It should pursue an objective of general European interest in the field of gender equality or an objective forming part of the European's Union's policy in this area.
• The applicant organisation must be legally established in one of the 25 EU
  Member States.
• This call for proposals is not open to individuals, either as an applicant or as a member of a transnational partnership.

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