IPA II – Kosovo _ North Macedonia – 2022

Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance for Rural Development - Kosovo_North Macedonia, aiming at fostering co-operation among institutions and organization in the cross-border region in order to support sustainable economic growth and strengthen social cohesion including gender equality.

2022-09-20

2.28 million euro

Additional information

Additional regional information :

Actions or operations must have as final beneficiaries the population of the programme area. They must take
place in one or more of the following territorial units:

Kosovo: East Economic Region or South Economic Region
North Macedonia: Polog Region, Northeast Region or Skopje Region

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Sectors : Citizenship & Human Rights Cooperation & Development Culture, media & communication Environment & Climate Territorial Development Tourism

Beneficiary : All beneficiaries Association & NGO

Regions : Balkans

Category : Call for proposals

Manager : European Commission

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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

Foster co-operation among institutions and organization in the cross-border region in order to support sustainable economic growth and strengthen social cohesion including gender equality
Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage
Protecting the environment, promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management

Priorities

Priority 1: Tourism potentials are enhanced and regional values further promoted, equally benefitting women and men (Thematic Priority II)
Priority 2: Joint efforts to address environmental pollution issues in the area are enhanced, equally benefitting women and men (Thematic Priority III)

Among financed actions

Priority 1
- Design and development of joint tourism offers, products and services
- Actions to encourage entrepreneurship and competitiveness in tourism sector, especially of women-led or –owned businesses
- Actions seeking for synergies between recreation tourism, nature tourism, business and rural tourism…
Priority 2
- Development of harmonised plans of actions to address soil contamination in a sustainable way
- Development of joint design of plans and measures for improvement of the quality of water flows through protection of water from different sources of contamination
- Small infrastructure works and procurement of equipment in the fields of solid waste and wastewater, sewage systems…

Additional information

This call for proposals is a restricted call for proposals. In first instance, only concept notes will be evaluated.
Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months

Eligibility

Be a legal person, and be non-profit-making
Be effectively established in either Kosovo or North Macedonia
Be one of the following institutions or organisations:
- Local authorities (municipalities)
- National and regional centres for disaster management, national parks and monitoring and other public organisations for nature protection
- Formal and public education and training institutions
- Centres for development of planning regions (in North Macedonia)
- Public central and local cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, institutions for protection of cultural heritage, etc.
- Public enterprises as well as emergency services, such as fire/emergency services.
Please note that profit making organisations and political parties are not eligible, neither as lead applicants nor as co-applicants, nor as affiliated entities.