The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' and Social Affairs has launched a public call for the allocation of funds in 2020 to support projects of associations in the field of economic empowerment of women from the category of single-parent families.

The overall objective of the public call is to improve the economic position and status of women from the category of single-parent families through: improved conditions for reconciling their business and private lives, improving their educational, professional and other competences for the purpose of employment or starting their own businesses, social support in child care, providing services for the care of children of different ages or providing scholarships for the education and advanced training of their children. 

Women from the category of single-parent families belong to one of the more vulnerable social groups in terms of equal opportunities and opportunities for reconciling their private and business lives.  Single-parent women also need additional social attention and support for the purpose of overcoming gender stereotypes, improving their levels of education, professional knowledge and skills, and ensuring their sustainable employment or empowerment to start their own businesses. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to come up with the new ways of providing social services with regard to the care of their children, which are territorially and materially accessible to the aforementioned category of women. 

The funds for this call amount to 3,000,000.00 dinars.  The maximum amount that can be claimed under one proposed project is 500,000.00 dinars.

An association that is responsible for project activities, regardless of the number of partners in the project, may seek funding for the implementation of only one project under this call.

The expected start and realization date of the selected projects is from July 2 to December 2 2020.

The text of the public call, forms and supporting documentation, which is an integral part of the public call, may be downloaded from: the Ministry's website https://www.minrzs.gov.rs , from the website of the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society https://www.civilnodrustvo.gov.rs , from the e-Government portal  https://euprava.gov.rs and on the notice board of the Ministry, Nemanjina 22-26, VI floor, 11000 Belgrade.

The application deadline is March 27, 2020.

Further information on the call is available on https://www.minrzs.gov.rs/sr/konkursi/javni-konkurs-za-udruzenja-na-temu-ekonomsko-osnazivanje-zena-iz-kategorije-jednoroditeljskih-porodica

Source: Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' and Social Affairs and Coordination Body