With this call, divided into 5 priorities, we aim at financing projects that will:

1. Integrate prevention of various forms of gender-based violence against women in different contexts, with a systemic approach (priority 1, "large-scale projects")
2. Tackle harmful practices against women and girls (priority 2)
3. Prevent gender-based violence by tackling its root causes (priority 3)
4. Support and improve national data collection on violence against children (priority 4)
5. Strengthen responses that prevent and support child victims of violence by reinforcing child protection systems at national and local level (priority 5).

The call recognises the need for proposals to equally address the specificities of the situation for women and men, girls and boys, in all their diversity.

Objectives:

1.Large-scale and long-term transnational actions to tackle genderbased violence:

• Domestic violence: increasing awareness of and access to support services for (potential) victims, strengthening gender-specific responses to domestic violence
• Harmful practices: tackling female genital mutilation and forced sterilisation, early and forced marriage, 'honour-related violence' and other harmful practices against women and girls
• Gender-based cyber violence: tackling gender-based cyber violence, such as incitement to violence, online stalking, non-consensual image sharing, extortion with the use of sexual imagery ('sextortion').
• Violence and harassment in the world of work: tackling physical and psychological offline and online violence or harassment in work contexts
• Gender stereotypes: preventing gender-based violence by tackling prejudices and gender stereotypes, in particular those related to masculinities

2. Combating and preventing violence linked to harmful practices: This entails combating, raising awareness and preventing violence linked to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, forced or early-age marriage or forced sexual relationships, so-called 'honour crimes' committed against women, young people and children. It includes the strengthening of public services, prevention and support measures, capacity building of professionals and victimcentred access to justice.

3. Primary prevention of gender-based violence:  The focus of this priority is on primary prevention, in particular changing social norms and behaviour, in order to end tolerance of all forms of gender-based violence.

4. Supporting and improving national data collection on violence against children: Collection of data on violence against children is very fragmented. There are gaps at all levels, making the response to violence more difficult. This priority aims to foster efforts towards more sustainable, comprehensive data collection (including disaggregation by sex) at local and/or national level.

5. Strengthening responses that prevent and support child victims of violence by reinforcing child protection systems at national and local level

For Priority 1, projects should normally range between 12 and 36 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment). For Priorities 2 to 5, projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

• For Priority 1 - the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 1 000 000 or higher than EUR 2 000 000
• For Priority 2 and 3 - the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000 or higher than EUR 1 000 000
• For priority 4 and 5 - the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries

To be eligible under the first priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:

• Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
• The project has to be transnational;
• The application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);

To be eligible under the second, third priority, fourth and fifth grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:

• Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
• The project can be either national or transnational;
• The application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner)

Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

• Application Form Part A - contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
• Application Form Part B - contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
• Part C (to be filled in directly online) containing additional project data including mandatory indicators

Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):

• CVs (standard) of core project team
• Activity report of last year of the coordinator
• List of previous projects of the coordinator (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
• For participants with activities involving children: their child protection policy covering the four areas described in the Keeping Children Safe Child Safeguarding Standards

For application or further information, please contact sara.bayes(ELIMINAR)@sjd.es