Second-Stage-Projekte; Beantragung einer Zuwendung

The Free State of Bavaria funds second-stage projects that support women and their children affected by domestic and/or sexualized violence in their social environment during the transition phase from staying in a women's shelter to living in their own home.

Purpose

Government grants are intended to prevent longer stays in women's shelters due to housing problems and to shorten the length of stay in the shelter. Women affected by violence and their children receive support during the difficult transition phase from a stay in a women's shelter to a home of their own in order to avoid a return to the violent environment or another stay in a women's shelter.

Object

Funding is provided for individual housing placement, assistance in organizing the move to an apartment of one's own or to a transitional apartment provided by the agency and the general acquisition of housing by establishing and expanding network structures, concluding cooperation agreements with housing associations, municipalities and other players in the housing industry. Psychosocial counseling and support for women affected by violence and their children during the transition phase is also funded.

Recipients of funding

Recipients of funding are providers of state-funded women's shelters or other providers that belong to an umbrella organization of Bavaria's non-statutory welfare services and have a contractually agreed cooperation with a state-funded women's shelter operating in the respective region.

Eligible expenditure

Personnel and material expenses are eligible for funding. In the case of personnel expenditure, funding is provided for expenditure on necessary specialists in transition management, psychosocial support and management/leadership. The eligible material expenses include the material expenses necessary for the operation of the second-stage project as well as material expenses for the provision of transitional housing.

Type and amount

The state grant is awarded as partial funding within the framework of project funding.

The amount of funding depends on the number of project places. A maximum of up to half of the women's shelter places for women can be recognized as eligible project places. There is an upper limit of 15 project places.

• Personnel expenses: For the first project place, a maximum of 0.60 full-time equivalents is eligible for funding; for each additional project place, the eligible staffing ratio increases by 0.34 full-time equivalents.
• Material expenditure: Material expenses of up to EUR 13,440 per year are eligible for the first project place. For each additional project place, the eligible material expenditure increases by a maximum of EUR 7,610.
• Transitional apartment/s: Material expenditure of up to EUR 5,550 per completed transitional apartment or shared flat is eligible for funding.

The grant amounts to a maximum of 90% of the eligible expenditure.

• The following documents may be required for initial applications or changes that have occurred:
  • Articles of association, partnership agreement or corresponding contracts
  • Proof of status as a state-subsidized women's shelter or of membership in an umbrella organization that is a member of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft der freien Wohlfahrtspflege Bayern (Bavarian Association of Voluntary Welfare Workers).
  • If the applicant is not a women's shelter: cooperation agreement with the women's shelter.
  • Project description or concept
  • Positive statements from the municipalities in the catchment area on local needs
  • Description of the living space provided
  • Proof of qualification and further training of the specialists (certificates, diplomas, etc.)
  • Calculations for the presentation of the arithmetical delimitation of material expenditures Second-Stage-Project/Women's House

• If the recipient of the grant is not a provider of a state-funded women's shelter, it must demonstrate a contractually agreed cooperation with a state-funded women's shelter operating in its region.
• A second-stage project may only be funded if there is a local need for this measure. To confirm the local need, a favorable statement from the districts and cities belonging to the catchment area must be submitted.

All other funding requirements can be found in the guidelines for state funding of expenditure for second-stage projects (see legal basis).

Funding is provided upon application by the provider of the women's shelter or other provider.

The provider applies to the granting authority (Government of Middle Franconia) for initial inclusion in state funding. The granting authority forwards the application documents to the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labor and Social Affairs (StMAS). This decides on the basic acceptance into the state funding program.

Follow-up funding is provided upon application by the sponsor to the granting authority.

The application for funding must be submitted in writing using the forms available from the granting authority.

The application must be submitted by December 1 of the year before the start of the approval period. In calendar year 2023, it is possible to submit an application during the year with funding starting in the current calendar year 2023.