Open Door Grants by Open Government Partnership for Eastern Partnerships

The Open Government Partnership Support Unit aims to support government and civil society in member countries, including in the Eastern Partnership region, to strengthen the co-creation and implementation of nationally or locally-led commitments with potentially high impact that can lead to increasing government transparency, improving accountability, strengthening citizen engagement and government responsiveness. In cooperation with the European Union, it offers the Open Door Grants that provide an agile response to emerging challenges at the country level. 

What can be funded with the Open Door Grants? 

The main objective of these grants is to expand and strengthen civil society engagement and foster multi-stakeholder partnerships for tackling relevant open government reforms in active OGP member countries and locals in the Eastern Partnership region.

The grants will be used for one of the following purposes:

• to propose and implement catalytic approaches to open governance reforms and advocate for their inclusion as commitments in OGP action plans;
• to support co-implementation, monitoring, and oversight of action plan commitments, ideally focusing on approaches that can be scalable across action plan cycles; or
• to promote, implement, and/or monitor open government reforms related to European integration processes.

The grants will also be used to explicitly expand the base of civil society and other non-governmental actors engaging with OGP in the EaP countries and locals. Strong preference will be given to ideas that engage new actors like the private sector, media, or youth groups.

Projects can come from the following areas: 

• Anti-corruption
• Justice
• Public service delivery, including strengthening citizen participation and feedback mechanisms, or enhancing government responsiveness to users for improving public services
• Civic Space and media freedoms
• Access to information
• Open governance and participation in post-war reconstruction and recovery
• Business integrity and ease of doing business
• Any other themes related to crisis response, recovery, or renewal

How can you apply? 

Applications for the Open Door Grants are possible for registered civil society organizations and consortia from Armenia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. Preference will be given to multi-stakeholder teams.

The grant size is up to 25.000 Euros for projects lasting 4 to 12 months. Grantees also have access to technical support from the OGP Support Unit to implement the proposed projects. 

Applicants have to fill out the application documents from the website. 

Application package templates:

• Application form
• Budget form

Completed applications should be emailed to eap@opengovpartnership.org. The proposals will be reviewed quarterly, with a deadline for application submissions at the end of each quarter (31 March 2023; 30 June 2023; 30 September 2023; 31 December 2023; etc.). Decisions will be communicated on a quarterly basis until the following quarter. Please mention “Open Door Grants” in the subject line which will be reviewed once at the end of every quarter.

Also check: Tips to apply for EU funding within the Strategic Partnerships for Capacity Development of Civil Society Organizations in the Eastern Partnership