The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) is a young independent grant giving institution that supports actors of democratic change. EED is a Brussels-based international foundation, a small team of experts that have extensively worked and lived in the EU Neighbourhood and beyond. EED’s work is overseen by its Board of Governors and Executive Committee, which is composed of Civil Society experts on democracy support, as well as EU and European State representatives. EED has funded 247 initiatives till now.
Where They Work
Since 2015 EED support for democracy actors moves beyond the EU Neighbourhood. Yet its scope is limited and their priority region remains the EU Neighbourhood: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, the occupied Palestinian territories, Syria, Tunisia & Ukraine.
EED also considers supporting partners in the "neighbours of EU neighbours" since 2015. These include: Bahrain, Chad, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey, & United Arab Emirates, as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan.
In the future, and depending on available funding, EED will potentially also consider applications from other countries.
How They Work
EED primarily seeks to support groups and activists that cannot be supported by existing EU instruments or other programmes; EED aims to be complementary to other donor programmes and to act as a gap- filler. The EED Secretariat assesses all Requests for Support and makes funding proposals to the EED Executive Committee, which takes funding decisions at its regular meetings.
EED acts as a “gap-filler”:
