II Stage
Program Goals
 To promote cooperation among Georgian NGOs;
To jointly define and solve the priority problems facing the society by the partner NGOs;
To jointly lobby social interests and protect these interests in front of the Government.
To develop NGO, government and business sector partnerships for achieving common decisions
Grants Program Requirements
The NGO collations consisting of local non-profit entities registered in Georgia in due procedure of law that have passed through the first stage of the competition and have submitted relevant application forms to the Foundation are eligible to participate in the competition.
One and the same organization is allowed to participate only in one of the competitions announced by the Horizonti Foundation and to submit only one proposal. The organizations are not allowed to change the coalition member organizations on the second stage.
Each associate within a coalition will be deemed as co-applicant, and in case a grant is awarded, a multilateral contract will be concluded, wherein duties and responsibilities of each associate in regard of the donor and the project will be defined. All the decisions referring to the project taken during the project implementation will be reached through consensus.
The sum will be transferred to the bank accounts of the applicant organizations, members of the coalitions.
Project financing will be seized if the coalition is not be able to keep its members; if any member organization of the coalition fails to implement activities envisaged in the project.
Proposals that besides the coalition partnerships envisage lobbying of social interests to the Government and development of partnership relations with Governmental and Business structures will be given priority during the competition. It is desirable that the submitted projects focus on joint efforts for solving the problems connected to establishment of democratic governance in the country.
The proposal should consist of the following parts:
The letterhead;
Information about the applicant organizations;
Information about the NGO (NGOs) participating in the project;
Project idea (problem description);
Working plan (project implementation schedule);
Expected results, monitoring and evaluation;
Budget.
1. The Letterhead:
The letterhead should contain a title of the proposal and the names of applicant organizations. Managing and representative authorities of each organization should sign the letterhead and a seal of the relevant organization should witness their signatures. The letterhead should contain the information about the amount requested from the Horizonti Foundation and the amount of cost share of the applicant organizations. The letterhead should also contain contact information of the person responsible for relations with the foundation.
2. Information about Each Coalition Member Organizations:
Organization name, date of founding, main goals; name of the registering body and register number;
Address; telephone, fax, E-mail;
Bank account number;
Person responsible for implementation of the project from each organization (one person from each organization) and his/her position at the particular organization;
Brief annotation of projects and programs implemented in association with the Governmental Structures in the past, sources of funding and concrete results of these projects/programs;
Projects that the organization has been implementing during the past two years (if existing).
The organizations should also point if they have presented this particular project to other foundations or donor organizations (specifying the title of the project and the date of its presenting).
3. Information about the Governmental or Commercial/Business Structures Participating in the Project:
Exact title of the structure;
Sphere of activities;
Address, telephone, fax, E-mail;
Names and positions of project participants and of the persons responsible for the project;
Past experience of cooperation with NGOs.
4. Project Idea (problem description)
Each Applicant organization is required to:
To identify and verify jointly the actuality of the problem set by the project;
To verify the necessity and suitability of cooperation between relevant NGOs in regar to the problem resolution;
To define concrete objects of the project;
To define location (locations) of the activities envisaged by the project;
To identify the responsibilities of partner organizations regarding the project;
To define the ways of implementation in details, i.e. What are the project objectives and who will participate in the project implementation?
To define the mechanisms for lobbying of social interests.
5. Working Plan (project implementation schedule)
The applicant coalition is required to present the detailed joint and individual working plans of all the members of the coalition. The project should be broken down according the months. In particular, the organization should point important events and dates of their implementation with maximum preciseness. Besides, the working plan should be presented in graphic (as a table) form. The working plan should also point out the organizations responsible for implementation of each activity.
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