Enhancing resilience for 14 local service providers in SEE

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IRIS Network awarded 14 small grants under CfP “Enhancing resilience of Civil Society Organizations (CSO)”  in scope of the project „IRIS NETWORKing – CSOs for protection sensitive migration management“. IRIS network Project Evaluation Committee decided to support 14 out of  32 received applications in 5 project countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. 

Implementation of all supported projects starts on 5th March 2021 with a duration of two months. The grants aim to support IRIS members in capacity-building actions for the purpose of enhancing the organization’s abilities to develop adequate services, capabilities, and skills as a response to the pandemic crisis.

As IRIS Network members are facing unprecedented challenges from COVID-19 and the strain on the services and resources they provide is tremendous, this Grant Scheme is taking proactive steps to protect the Network members, support their ongoing activities and assist them to cope with current hardships as much as possible. Project proposals shall aim to produce an added value to the “IRIS Networking” project’s efforts in this domain.

Iris network would like to congratulate all of its member organizations who received grants, but also to thank all applicants who sent us their proposals. The final list of all organizations that received grants can be found in the following table.

Open Gate SOS line

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Отворена Порта – Open Gate: La Strada Macedonia operates with the only SOS line in S. Macedonia that offers aid to victims of human trafficking.

The line works 24/7 and is being operated by trained professionals who are willing to offer help, support, and referrals. You can get advice, support and more information by calling SOS line – 0800 11 111.


The SOS line provides preventive and educational information (enables information on the problem of human trafficking, safe ways of migration, and legal work abroad) and direct contact to provide support and assistance to (potential) victims of human trafficking and their families, persons in the chain trafficking in human beings or have left it without adequate psycho-social assistance.

Nova Generacija – SOS line

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Nova generacija introduced telephone counseling for children – Plavi telefon BiH. Plavi telefon BiH launched a new anonymous chat counseling service in December. To date, 70 children have called for help and support.

The most common topics of conversation are:

  1. Peer and partnership relations
  2. Problems in relation to parents
  3. Physical and emotional abuse

Study – The Consequences of Covid-19 risk – causes, outcomes, and recommendations

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On December 11, 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Team, with the support of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Team of the Government of the Republic of Serbia presented the study “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱-𝟭𝟵 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 – 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀”.

Read the whole study on the link.

Iris Network Grant Scheme results for 2020

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