Block Grants

A block grant is a fund, set up for a clearly defined purpose and may provide assistance to individuals, organisations or institutions. Block grants are intended to facilitate activities where each sub-project or end recipient is too small to be identified a priori or to be administered cost-effectively on an individual basis.

A block grant is a fund of the non-recoverable financial support which is intended to finance the sub- projects prepared by the end-recipients and to cover the block grant management costs incurred by the Intermediary. The block grant intermediary is responsible for the management of the block grant and for the monitoring of the implementation of the sub-projects.

There are 4 block grants in Lithuania financed from the EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms:

1. Seed money facility (Intermediary – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania);
2. NGO fund (Intermediary – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania);
3. Fund of the Transfer of experience and strengthening of cooperation among local, regional and euroregional partners in Lithuania and Norway” (Intermediary – Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania);
4. Fund of the Strengthening administrative and public capacities of regional and local authorities and their institutions (Intermediary – Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania).