Society Integration Foundation is a public foundation, which was established under law of Republic of Latvia of July 5, 2001 - "Law of Society Integration Foundation" that took effect on September 1, 2001.

Foundation is a legal entity. The Cabinet of Ministers confirms its regulations.

Foundation does not come under any leading institution of the state administration sector, and its budget is separate from the state budget.

Mission of the Foundation is to implement objectives of the state programme "Society integration in Latvia" supporting initiatives that encourage both social and ethnic integration of society of Latvia. The Foundation follows the highest professional standards that are based on such values as objectivity, equal attitude, openness and fairness.

Objective of the Foundation is to financially support and encourage society integration process according to basic approaches of the corresponding state programme.

Tasks of the Foundation are as follows:

1. To raise, amass, administrate and distribute funds for implementation of society integration projects;
2. To set up criteria and to develop basic principles for assessment of society integration projects;
3. To set up criteria and to develop methodogical guidelines for preparation and submission of society integration projects;
4. To announce and to organise competitions for society integration projects to receive funding;
5. To develop and to submit proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers about required state budgetary funds for implementation of the society integration process;
6. To ensure transparency of the Foundation activities;
7. By allocating resources, to publish information in newspaper "Latvijas Vēstnesis" about funding amount and grant source of the corresponding society integration project;
8. To maintain and to update public data base of society integration projects that are submitted to the Foundation as well as funded by it, and to draw and analyse information about projects of perspective funding;
9. To manage allocated funding purposefully and effectively thus ensuring control over expenditures of funds;
10. To develop and to publish annual report on Foundation activities in the newspaper "Latvijas Vēstnesis".

The Foundation supports society integration projects and manages both state and foreign funding - ES Phare, ESF, Europe Direct, EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

In 2003 Foundation was entitled to administrate Phare grant programmes according to decentralised implementation system. In 2004 after accreditation audit by European Commission, it arrived at a decision to assign administration rights of Phare support to Society Integration Foundation. This entitled the Foundation to wider rights to arrive at decisions concerning implementation of these programmes on its own account.

In 2004 the Foundation was also entitled to administrate European Union Structural Funds grant programmes and now implements 5 grant programmes that are co-financed by European Social Fund.

PROGRAMMES ADMINISTRATED BY THE FOUNDATION

2010

European Social Fund (ESF) grant programmes:

1) Administrative capacity building of NGOs;
2) Support for capacity building of NGOs and local governments for implementation of ESF activities;
3) Development and implementation of quality control system;
4) Quality increase of public services on national, regional and local levels;
5) Diminishing of administrative barriers and quality increase of public services;
6) Planning and management development of human resources of public administration;
7) Administrative capacity building of social partners.

State budget programmes:

8) Horizontal programme - Budget programme of NGO co-financing.

Programmes of EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism:

9) Seed Money Facility;
10) NGO support measure;
11) NGO capacity strengthening measure;
12) NGO project measure.

Swiss  - Latvian cooperation programme:

13) NGO Fund.

2009

European Social Fund (ESF) grant programmes:

1) Administrative capacity building of NGOs;
2) Support for capacity building of NGOs and local governments for implementation of ESF activities;
3) Development and implementation of quality control system;
4) Quality increase of public services on national, regional and local levels;
5) Conduct of policy research;
6) Improvement of development and implementation of politics and its impact assessment;
7) Diminishing of administrative barriers and quality increase of public services; 8) Planning and management development of human resources of public administration;
9) Administrative capacity building of social partners.

State budget programmes:

Programmes of EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism:

12) Seed Money Facility;
13) NGO support measure;
14) NGO capacity strengthening measure;
15) NGO project measure.

2008

European Social Fund (ESF) grant programmes:

Programming period 2004 - 2006 programmes:
1) Technical assistance for capacity building of NGOs and local governments for implementation of ESF activities;
2) Research on opportunities of socially excluded groups in labour market;
3) Motivation programmes for socially excluded groups;
4) Consultations and training to commence entrepreneurship and self-employment;
5) Development and implementation of social rehabilitation programmes.

Programming period 2007 - 2013 programmes:
6) Administrative capacity building of NGOs;
7) Support for capacity building of NGOs and local governments for implementation of ESF activities
8) Development and implementation of quality control system;
9) Quality increase of public services on national, regional and local levels;
10) Conduct of policy research;
11) Improvement of development and implementation of politics and its impact assessment;
12) Diminishing of administrative barriers and quality increase of public services;
13) Planning and management development of human resources of public administration;
14) Administrative capacity building of social partners.

State budget programmes:

Horizontal programme:
15) Budget programme of NGO co-financing.

Ethnic integration programme:
16) Mastering Latvian for adults.

Programme of European Commission:

17) Development and management of EUROPE DIRECT information relay network in Latvia.

European Union Transition facility programmes:

18) Promotion of society integration in Latvia.

Programmes of EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism: