Call for Applications

Sub-Granting Mechanism under the HOME project “The way forward to reforms in the housing sector: empowering grass-root homeowners associations in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine”

Announcement

Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO) in partnership with local partner Institute for Urban Development (IUD) announces a Call for Applications within the EU funded project ** “The way forward to reforms in the housing sector: Empowering grass-root homeowners associations in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine”**.

The purpose of this project is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organization (CSOs) in the housing sector in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

The call invites eligible non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and/or consortiums of thereof, to participate in the call. The call aims at establishing strong system of information dissemination and technical assistance to help homeowners form and/or operate homeowners’ associations (HOAs).

Thus, the main task under the call is to establish and to strengthen institutions (Technical Advisory Centres, TACs), which will support relevant target groups in order to improve and increase their knowledge on housing issues. Tasks and objectives of Technical Assistance Centres (TACs) are:

• to increase the knowledge and awareness of citizens about their rights in the property, principles and activities of homeowners’ associations (HOAs)
• to organize and conduct seminars and trainings on topics, such as the establishment and running of HOAs
• to provide training for HOAs accountants to support the organization, implementation and participation (if necessary) of HOAs’ meetings
• regular telephone consultation hours “Hotline”
• individual consulting and training of local residents
• bundling of proposals from NGOs, HOAs in the development of recommendations for changes in legislation
• dissemination of best practices by HOAs in the partner towns
• to promote the cooperation with international donors and organizations that will help the partner cities with the establishment of HOAs.

Deadline for application is 29.12.2015 , 6:00 PM local time. More information is available along with relevant documents. 1. Sub-Grant Manual 2. Application Form 3. Budget Template 4. Legal Entity Sheet 5. Financial identification form

All application documents will be sent by e-mail upon a written request addressed to the Institute for Urban Development on address: office@idu-moldova.org or office.urbana@gmail.com.