The Euro-Burma Office welcomes proposals from
organizations working to promote democracy in Burma.
Projects
must uphold and promote democratic values and human rights. These include
inclusive and non-discriminatory policies and practices. Projects should
reflect gender and age-sensitive approaches to programming. A focus is
promoting the participation of disenfranchised communities.
Proposals should demonstrate relevance to at least one of
the 9 activity areas of the EBO below:
Briefings and to the international community.
Support
for the development of political parties based on democratic principles in
Burma.
Support
for the development and empowerment of civil society in Burma.
Political support for Burmese migrant workers in
neighbouring countries,
and overseas.
Support for intra- and inter-ethnic consultations to
broaden and deepen the political consensus on a future democratic Burma, and
how this can be achieved.
Support for the development of broad-based political
institutional infrastructures in Burma with the mandate to develop strategies
and priorities to implement the consensus, as well as to communicate this
consensus to the international community.
Support for the development of a primary database to
enable institutions to develop a comprehensive human resources development
program.
Support for internships and capacity building programs for
civil administrators and civil society actors especially women and youth and
the disenfranchised.
Support for independent ethnic media, as a way to include
smaller communities in the democracy movement and also help them to preserve
their languages and cultures.
EBO
is committed to remaining responsive to the changing needs of organizations
working on a transition to democracy; therefore, we have four deadlines for
calls for proposals each year. These will then be reviewed by the EBO Programme
Committee.
