Narrative Report 1997

Autonómia Foundation is a private independent grant-giving foundation, established in 1990.

MissionTo contribute to the emergence

of civil society in Hungary. Currently Autonómia focuses its activity in 3 areas:

I. Poverty and Ethnicity
providing grants and loans to support self-help initiatives which enable Roma people to build economic and social autonomy.

II. Environmental Sustainability
supporting environmental projects which involve local unemployed Roma people.

III. Civil Society
supporting NGOs to strengthen their financial, professional and human resource capacities, so contributing to their sustainability.

How Autonómia works

  • Providing grants and loans on the basis of careful assessment and monitoring of projects.
  • Developing projects through specialist support and advice provided by local ’monitors’.
  • Providing technical assistance to other donors, in particular the European Union.
  • Working jointly with other funders, such as with Environmental Partnership.



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