The purpose of the “EU Funds Checklist” (PDF) is to ensure EU funds in the 2021-2027 programming period contribute to independent living and inclusion in the community.

More specifically, the checklist supports desk officers to check the consistency of the measures with the legal and policy frameworks in the fields of:

• Prevention of segregation and institutionalisation of children, persons with disabilities, persons with mental health problems, older people and homeless people, regardless of the residence status.
• Transition from institutional to family-based and community-based services for children, persons with
• disabilities, persons with mental health problems and elderly persons
• Development of quality family-based and community-based services
• Prevention of separation of children, including with disabilities, from their families

The “EU Funds Checklist” has been updated to the recently adopted texts of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Social Funds + (ESF+), Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).

This is an updated version of the previously published “Checklist to ensure EU-funded measures contribute to independent living by developing and ensuring access to family-based and community-based services”, in 2019.

It has been written in cooperation with Hope and Homes for Children, and it aims to ensure many more EU citizens benefit from EU funding for inclusion; and to prevent the misuse of EU funds.

Download here: EU Funds Checklist to promote independent living and deinstitutionalisation (PDF)