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Bilateral cooperation within the EEA Grants and NGO Fund
Lillian SolheimNorwegian Helsinki Committee
22/11/2012
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Experiences from 2004-2009
• Large numbers of partnership requests • Voluntary work dedicated to project development • Positive feedback: added value of bilateral
cooperation • Capacity-challenge • Bilateral fund
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What role did Norwegian NGOs have?
• Provide expertise and training • Mutual competence building • Exchange of experiences • 30% of projects in Slovenia had partners
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Bilateral partnerships: findings
• Common understanding of content and strategy• Good project planning• Building good and sustainable relations • Common understanding of important values • Agreement of financial framework• Long-term perspective
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Challenges
• Language issues • Norway is an expensive country • Different administrative and bureaucratic cultures • 3 donor countries, 15 beneficiary countries
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Define your interest
• Why get involved? What is the right motivation? • What is your capacity as an organisation? • What are your strenghts and weaknesses? • What would you like to learn? What can you
offer? • What is your target area of cooperation? Country
of preference?
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Establishing contact with a partner
3 scenarios: 1.You already have a contact 2.You are being contacted 3.You look for a contact
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How to find a partner?
• Build on excisting contacts • European and International networks • NGO Fund launching conferences • Conferences and workshops• Ngonorway.org
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Establishing contact with a partner
Fundamental questions •Are you compatible with the partner? •Will you have time to develop a project proposal in time for an open call? •Is there a programme in the target country which captures your area of interest?
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ngonorway.org
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NGO Partnership Portal
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@ngopartnership