Call For Proposals To Prevent And Combat Gender-based Violence And Violence Against Children
CERV Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CERV-2025-DAPHNE
- Programme
- Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- February 18, 2025
- Deadline
- May 7, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €23,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CERV-2025-DAPHNECERV-2025-DAPHNEPreventing and combating all forms of violence against childrenPreventing and combating all forms of violence against women, as well as violence against other groups at risk, in particular groups at risk of violence in close relationships, and to protect victims of such violence
Description
| With this call, diveded into 4 priorities, we aim at financing projects that will:
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Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Eligible Countries
as described in the call document.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions:
as described in the call document
3. Evaluation
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.
4. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement:
as described in the call document.
Opening for submissions: February, 18 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: May, 7 2025 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: May-October 2025.
Information to applicants: November 2025.
Signature of grant agreement: January - February 2026.
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (CERV) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table (CERV LSII) - the budget table can also be downloaded during submission
Child Protection Policy Declaration for Public Entities
Guidance
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
Regulation establishing the CERV Programme
Decision on unit costs for travel and subsistence
Decision on unit costs for volunteers
Guidance: How to manage your lump-sum grant
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Frequently Asked Questions About Call For Proposals To Prevent And Combat Gender-based Violence And Violence Against Children
Support & Resources
Please carefully read all provisions of the Call document and get familiar with the proposal template and its annexes before the preparation of your application.
For help related to this call, please contact [email protected] or the CERV National Contact Point of your country, if established.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
CERV-2025-DAPHNE: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children
Publication date: 06 February 2025
Opening date: 20 February 2025
Deadline: 07 May 2025
Call budget: 23,000,000 EUR
Number of proposals submitted: 505
Number of eligible proposals: 463
Number of inadmissible/ineligible proposals: 69
Number of proposals retained for funding: 27 for EUR 22,965,937.15
Number of proposals on the reserve lists: 10
Number of proposals rejected due to lack of budget: 274
Number of proposals rejected due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 125
The results of the evaluation were communicated to the applicants via the Funding and Tenders Portal on 06 and 07 November 2025.
Summary of the results per priority:
Priority 1 – Large-scale and long-term actions on tackling gender-based violence, with regranting (giving financial support to third party Civil Society Organisations)
• Number of proposals retained for funding: 4
• Number of proposals on the reserve list: 2
• Number of proposals rejected due to lack of budget: 30
• Number of proposals rejected due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 12
Priority 2 – Targeted actions for the protection of and support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence and domestic violence:
• Number of proposals retained for funding: 7
• Number of proposals on the reserve list: 2
• Number of proposals rejected due to lack of budget: 100
• Number of proposals rejected due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 34
Priority 3 - Targeted actions for the prevention of gender-based violence, including cyber violence:
• Number of proposals retained for funding: 8
• Number of proposals on the reserve list: 3
• Number of proposals rejected due to lack of budget: 93
• Number of proposals rejected due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 61
Priority 4 - Targeted actions making integrated child protection systems work in practice:
• Number of proposals retained for funding: 8
• Number of proposals on the reserve list: 3
• Number of proposals rejected due to lack of budget: 51
• Number of proposals rejected due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 18
Call CERV-2025-DAPHNE has closed on 07.05.2025.
505 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in November 2025.
Addition of a line on page 29 - point e), to reiterate the maximum EU grant to apply for under Priority 4.
!! INFORMATION SESSION !!
Join us online to know more about the call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children CERV-2025-DAPHNE.
During the session, we will talk about the objectives of the call, eligibility requirements, award criteria, application process and the use of the budget table (lump-sum type 2).
When: Thursday 20 March 2025, 09.00 - 13.00 (CET)
Where: online (Webex)
For the registration to the event, please follow this link. You can also join the info session directly via the Webex link - registration is not mandatory.