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During Siliņa’s government, state spending on grants to NGOs and individuals has doubled

Expenditures by ministries and institutions for non-governmental organizations, as well as grants to private individuals over the last four years have more than doubled, according to information compiled by Inc. Thus, in 2022 a total of 98.9 million euros was spent for these purposes, while in 2026, 192.9 million euros is planned to be spent for the same purposes. It should be added that the increase has been consistent and these have not been any exceptions […]

55 over 55: in which NGOs are the highest salaries and dependence on funds?

There are 30,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Latvia, of which only 1% receive funding through the Society Integration Foundation (SIF). Of these 300 organizations, fewer than half, that is 128 associations or foundations, have received SIF funding exceeding 50,000 euros over a three-year period. For 55 organizations, SIF funding has exceeded 100,000 euros. These are 55 NGOs whose activities, without state and various European Union (EU) […]

SIF NGO co-financing program: the green course and immigrant inclusion with state money

Once, not so long ago, when former New Unity prime minister Krišjānis Kariņš was flying around the world on private flights, the Attīstībai/Par! minister Juris Pūce had only recently resigned, the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia was reaching ever new records, but there was more money than ever before, the government nevertheless decided to find 425,000 euros from the budget’s contingency funds so that Pūce’s wife Zaiga […]

Billions at work – Latvia’s EU funds puzzle

Twenty years in the European Union have significantly transformed Latvia’s economic environment: roads and bridges have been built, laboratories and industrial parks established, public services digitalized, as well as energy systems modernized and upgraded. Since accession in 2004, approximately 18 billion euros of EU funding have been invested in Latvia in several thousand projects – an amount that domestic resources alone could not provide. The main question now is […]