# Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV
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**topic id:** CASCADE-15982
**call id:** CERV-2025-DAPHNE
**title:** Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV
**programme:** Cascade funding
**status:** open
**deadline date:** 2026-11-23T15:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** multiple cut-off
**start date:** 2026-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/47589185
**description:** The CoPower Action has been designed to directly fund initiatives addressing Gender Based Violence(GBV) against women, girls and children through an intersectional approach.
All eligible activities supported through the project calls will directly respond to the multidimensional and intersecting needs of women, girls, and child survivors of GBV, strengthening an inclusive and accessible protection systems across different intervention contexts. Child protection and gender mainstreaming are expected to be integral components of the proposals submitted by CSOs, while partner organisations will provide dedicated technical support to improve the capacities of participating CSOs in these areas. 
3 NATIONAL CALLS 
Three national calls will support CSOs in Italy, Greece and Spain focusing on: Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV. 
TARGET APPLICANTS 
The calls target small and medium-sized grassroots CSOs, particularly those operating in rural, peripherical or marginalised areas and legally registered in Italy, Greece or Spain. The primary target group, will include Women’s rights organisations (WROs), Anti-violence centres and anti-trafficking centres, Human rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, child rights, social inclusion and disability, elderly, migrant and refugee organisations. 
2 FUNDING WORKSTREAMS: 
1. Enhanced protection response for women, girls and children, victims of GBV, adopting an intersectional approach. This area focusses on providing tailored protection and support services, including safe houses, medical and psychological assistance for women and girls, in all their diversity, who are victims of domestic, sexual violence and other forms of GBV considering specific barriers for equal access to protection (Budget: 540,000 EUR in total for the 3 Countries). 
2. Reduction of harmful practices, with a focus on improving interventions against harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, intersex genital mutilation, forced abortion, forced sterilisation, child and forced marriage, and honour-related violence, forced medicalisation of transgender women. Funded projects will aim at both 9 preventing and responding to these practices, with a particular focus on raising awareness, strengthening legal frameworks, and providing education to communities at risk (Budget: 360,000 EUR in total for the 3 Countries). 
CALL TIMELINE 
First Round: 
• Opening: 24/08/2026 (11/09/2026 in Greece) 
• Deadline: 23/11/2026 at 15.00 CET 
Second Round: 
• Opening: 01/12/2026 
• Deadline: 01/03/2027 at 15.00 CET 
 
AVAILABLE GRANT PER COUNTRY: 
First Round - 6 projects of the following amounts will be awarded: 
• Stream 1: one grant of EUR 50,000; one grant of EUR 50,000; one grant of EUR 20,000 
• Stream 2: one grant of EUR 50,000; one grant of EUR 25,000; one grant of EUR 5,000 
Second Round - 4 projects of the following amounts will be awarded: 
• Stream 1: one grant of EUR 30,000; one grant of EUR 30,000; 
• Stream 2: one grant of EUR 20,000; one grant of EUR 20,000 
APPLICATION PROCESS: 
• Administrative check 
• Eligibility requirements verification and shortlisting 
• Final assessment and selection 
• Pre-notification and Due diligence 
• Confirmation and signing the agreement 
• Information session are foreseen online and in present in each country. 
For more information please visit: https://copower.oxfam.it/ 
Contact: infocopower@oxfam.it
**conditions:** The CoPower project is implemented by Oxfam Italia ETS, Action Aid Hellas, Asociación Bienestar y Desarolloa and We World-GVC. It started on 1 March 2026 and will end on 28 February 2029.
Its objective is to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) to provide safe and inclusive services for victims of gender-based violence (GBV) against women, girls, and children in all their diversity across six European countries: Italy, Greece, Spain, Serbia, Romania, and Albania.
The project foresees three national calls, along with transnational calls involving the following country pairs: Italy–Serbia, Spain-Romania, and Greece-Albania. The national calls will fund at least 10 projects in Italy, 10 in Spain and 10 in Greece. The transnational calls will fund 5 projects for Italy and Serbia, 5 projects for Spain and Romania and 5 projects for Greece and Albania. Overall, a minimum of 60 CSOs will be engaged, fostering meaningful cross-country cooperation.
A comprehensive capacity-sharing programme for CSOs will include needs assessments, training, mentoring, and both national and international workshops to promote mutual learning and support in the full implementation of the EU Violence Against Women Directive.
**action type:** Cascade funding (open call from an EU project)
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