The SELDI Small Grants Programme “Financial Support for Grassroots and Youth CSOs with Outreach to Citizens” seeks to strengthen the contribution of civil society organisations from the Western Balkan countries to anticorruption efforts and their inclusion in the SELDI policy advocacy and impact cycle, by financially prioritizing CSOs, including grassroots and youth, active against corruption.

The overall objective of the Programme is to provide support to local CSOs in pursuing the EU and regional anti-corruption agenda in the target countries, and in line with issues identified by the SELDI Regional Anti-Corruption Report (RAR), SELDI policy documents and latest Enlargement Package reports for the target countries.

Specific objective of the Programme is engaging CSOs and citizens in the SELDI action and providing synergies across the region by enhancing CSOs professional capacities and skills to fight corruption and hold leaders and institutions accountable through evidence-based advocacy and engagement, to measure and expose corruption and state capture, and to formulate policy outputs.

Thirty civil society organizations and their partners from the Western Balkans region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro) have been awarded grants through the SELDI Small Grants Programme. They will implement projects, ranging from a minimum of 9 to a maximum of 12 months starting from 1 February 2025, which directly involve citizens and young people in anti-corruption initiatives in the target region.