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Nordic Council of Ministers’ funding programme for NGOs in the Baltic Sea Region

NGOs play a prominent role in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ co-operation with the Baltic States and Northwest Russia within a number of its priority areas, such as the environment and progress towards democracy, but also as partners in building networks and cross-border co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region.

In the autumn of 2008, the Nordic Ministers for Co-operation adopted new guidelines for co-operation with North-West Russia and the Baltic States 2009–2013. These guidelines conclude that NGOs play a key role in co-operation with Northwest Russia and the Baltic States.

The Nordic Council of Ministers originally launched this NGO programme in 2006 to promote co-operation between Nordic, Baltic, Polish, Belarusian and Russian NGOs and since then more than 60 projects with a total value of more than DKK 30 million have provided funding in areas such as the environment, care for children and other vulnerable groups, and the development of democracy.

The Nordic Council of Ministers administers the Project Civil Society Stability for Belarus (CSSB) to support civil society in Belarus in the aftermath of the Presidential election in 2010. See more here: www.cssb.lt.

Available in the following countries:

Russia, Belarus, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Iceland, Sweden, Greenland, Latvia, Lithuania, Åland Islands, Finland, Poland, Faroe Islands

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Fredric Larsson
Phone: +45 33 96 03 27