The government fund to provide organisations with co-financing to implement projects for which they would have obtained European funds now amounted to €280,000.
Parliamentary Secretary Consumers Chris Said said that the scheme, for NGOs, had been successful last year when the co-financing of three projects – by the Paola Freire Institute, the Richmond Foundation and the Malta Institute of Management, had been approved. Between them, these organisations would be getting €13,000.
Dr Said said that the criteria to apply for the funds had become less bureaucratic and NGOs who did not qualify for funds last year because of a lack of information were this year being given the chance to reapply.
Organisations applying for funds had to fork out 15 per cent of the project cost themselves.