REC SECTOR PROGRAM SUPPORTS ENVIRONMENTAL CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE

Merita Fazliu Mehmed, project manager at the Regional Environmental Center (REC) Field Office in Kosovo, informed local NGO representatives about a call for SECTOR Program national and regional grants at a meeting organized by ATRC and REC on Oct. 11. She presented REC’s funding objectives, priorities, application guidelines and grant timeline. She also answered NGO representatives’ questions.

“The SECTOR grant program aims to enable civil society actors to address urban environmental and sustainable urban development issues in South Eastern Europe,” Mehmed stated.

“The support should result in strengthening civil society to increase community awareness about conditions and possible solutions to problems in the environmental sector (particularly environmental and health issues),” she added.

With support from REC, organizations should promote changes through environmental lobbying, advocacy and acting as government and industry watchdogs, she said.

The REC SECTOR grant program is supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

Details about the program can be found at: http//kos.rec.org.