IFES оголошує конкурс грантів на проведення тренінгів для поліції. Дедлайн - 15 листопада 2018 р. (далі - англ.).

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is an independent, non-governmental organization providing professional support to electoral democracy. Through field work, applied research and advocacy, IFES strives to promote citizen participation, transparency and accountability in political life and civil society.

IFES invites non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations meeting the relevant operational and performance requirements to submit applications for a 12-month project on conducting Training on Electoral Integrity and Election Violence for law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this project is to increase the effectiveness of law enforcement personnel during 2019 elections through training initiatives conducted throughout Ukraine. The goal of trainings is to strengthen the capacity of the police to identify the election-related crimes and electoral administrative offences, to document them and collect evidence for the further legal action; as well as increase the capacity of the police investigators to effectively investigate the election-related crimes. Strengthening the capacity of the police and investigators would ensure effective detection and investigation of the alleged violations, prosecution of the offenders and any violation of the election laws is a subject to effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions.  In addition, it will provide environment that the elections are held in line with the international standards and ensure overall safety of the elections, both on the Election Day and during election campaign period.  This project will be conducted in close coordination with IFES legal and electoral justice experts as well as the National Police of Ukraine.  

The goal of a targeted and well-designed training program prior to the 2019 Presidential and Parliamentary elections for : 1) patrol police – interactive training program will assist patrol police to effectively protect the public order on Election Day and during the public events related to election campaigning, to identify administrative offences and collect evidence of crimes and administrative offences, and to document election-related criminal and administrative offences; and 2) police investigators – interactive training program will assist police investigators to effectively launch and investigate criminal cases in relation to election-related criminal offences in line with the provisions laid down in the Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, and best international practices.

Applicants must submit:
1) A completed IFES application form, including the detailed work plan for the proposed activities (Attachment A);
2) A completed Performance Monitoring Plan (Attachment B);
3) A detailed itemized budget in USD along with the budget notes in the unified IFES format (Attachment C);
4) Scanned copies of the registration documents, including by-laws;
5) CVs of the project participants (project director, administrative staff, and all expected involved experts/trainers);
6) If applicable, applicant should submit additional information about other projects (project summary and budget) on similar topics, submitted or already funded by other donors.

All questions and submission of proposals shall be to the attention of Mr. Najeebullah Yousef [email protected]  with “Ukraine Police Training” in the subject line for all e-mail communication.

Deadline - November 15, 2018 till 6.00 PM Kyiv time

Request for applications (RFA-19-010), Attachements A, B, C can be downloaded below.