The Neighbourhood Fund

Interventions under the Neighborhood Fund must address specific challenges in the context through partnerships between Danish organisations and civil society actors from the neighboring countries. In addition to supporting interventions in each of the six countries, the Neighborhood Fund can also support interventions with a regional perspective, involving activities in several of the six Eastern neighborhood region countries.

The Neighborhood Fund can be applied for as Small-scale Interventions up to 200,000 DKK, Citizen Participation Interventions up to 500,000 DKK, and Development Interventions up to 4.5 million DKK. For these three support modalities, the guidelines of the Civil Society Fund apply.

In addition to the three support modalities, the Neighborhood Fund also includes the Resilience and Democratic development Ukraine support modality, which can support interventions up to 4.5 million DKK.

The Neighborhood Fund contributes to democratic development by promoting diverse participation, transparency, democratic oversight, and accountability in the use of funds and implementation of plans for long term development. This can be achieved through initiatives that establish accountability structures or strengthen citizens' ability to monitor the work of governmental, private, and other actors in reconstruction, or initiatives that enhance the framework for civil society in future Ukraine. Initiatives can also address acute social needs by supporting resilience for vulnerable groups or the (re)establishment of critical democratic functions and institutions that can stabilize the situation at the local and national levels, thereby contributing to a more responsible and sustainable society.