Application Guidelines

The CEE Trust believes that the following things are of importance in a project:

· Relevance of the overall project to the CEE Trust mission and program funding areas; 

· Potential of the project to represent, stimulate, and/or support genuine civil societies;

· Relevance to the local context;

· Identification of a real issue (problem/need/challenge/opportunity);

· Clear goals and realistic expectations;

· Activities that clearly respond to the identified issue(s) and the goal(s) of the project;

· Capacity of the organization (coalition, group of individual) to implement the project;

· Visible efforts to reach out to the citizens; win public support; work with the media; establish partnerships; adopt a policy of transparency;

· Realistic and argumented budget;

· Vision for the future and strategy of the organization