Europe Foundation’s mission is to empower people to effect change for social justice and economic prosperity through hands-on programs, helping them to improve their communities and their own lives. The Foundation engages citizens in social, economic, and political developments, to effect positive democratic and socio-economic changes at the local, regional, and national level through both operational programs and grantmaking.
Through its programming and grantmaking, the Foundation strives to promote civic participation and democratic governance in Georgia. It does so by strengthening the capacities of civil society actors, so that they contribute to more inclusive, transparent, and accountable policy making. If civil society capacity and sustainability is strengthened and viable mechanisms of participation are created locally and nationally, then citizens will be better able to enjoy their human rights and freedoms and hold duty-bearers accountable. It is with this rationale in mind that the Foundation’s programs equip CSOs and civic activists with skills, capacities and resources to define and achieve positive outcomes for themselves and their communities.
Empowering Citizens and Communities for Lasting Change
Europe Foundation has Civil Society and Youth Integration Programming activities.
Europe Foundation’s programming equips CSOs and individual civic activists to define and achieve outcomes of enduring benefit to themselves and their communities, such as:
- Engage and Monitor for Change
- Watchdog Journalism for Change
- Participatory Fiscal Policy Making
- Strengthening Civil Society
Europe Foundation’s youth integration efforts support youth volunteerism and civic engagement. Europe Foundation employs the Youth Bank (YB) methodology, originally established in Northern Ireland, to develop civic leadership skills among the targeted young people, foster youth integration in various spheres of life, and help them address the area’s violent conflicts.
Connect with Europe Foundation for:
- Grantmaking for CSOs in Georgia seeking to engage and empower citizens for democratic changes.
- Thematic programming for CSOs monitoring and advocacy interventions that bring tangible positive changes to the people of Georgia.
- Knowledge and capacity building opportunities and programmes via CIFAL Tbilisi.