E-zine nEUws, 78th edition

 

e-zine nEUws, 78th edition

5th January 2007

• Calls for Proposals
• EU News

Call for Proposals

The Calls on the following European Commission budget lines are usually open for organisations and projects interested in SRHR. For further details on any of these Calls or corrigenda see the EuropeAid web-site: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm.

Co-financing European Development NGOs: to raise awareness on development co-operation issues in Europe.
Multi-country, until 20.02.2007, Budget: 30,000,000

EIDHR: to maximise the effectiveness, impact and visibility of actions undertaken in support of the protection and promotion of human rights and democratisation.
Albania, until 08.03.2007, Budget: € 2,000,000 Angola, until 15.03.2007, Budget: € 408,432 Bangladesh, until 28.03.2007, Budget: € 402,500 Burundi, until 29.03.2007, Budget: € 375,000 DR of Congo, until 13.03.2007, Budget: € 515,000 Côte d’Ivoire, until 03.04.2007, Budget: € 802,500 Algeria, until 24.03.2007, Budget: € 250,000 Egypt, until 15.03.2007, Budget: € 515,000 Haiti, until 07.03.2007, Budget: € 452,500 Jordan, until 16.04.2007, Budget: € 250,000 Kyrgyzstan, until 26.03.2007, Budget: € 138,780 Sri Lanka, until 29.03.2007, Budget: 375,000 Nepal, forecast, Budget: € 375,000 Nepal, until 28.02.2007, Budget: € 375,000 Pakistan, until 29.03.2007, Budget: € 535,000 Turkey, until 12.03.2007, Budget: € 385,000 Ukraine, until 05.03.2007, Budget: € 300,000

Actions to promote the inclusion and social cohesion.
Cuba, until 30.03.2007, Budget: 150,000

Aid to Uprooted people: to reduce the impact of being uprooted, mitigate poverty and help reconstruct the socio-economic fabric.
Myanmar, until 02.04.2007, Budget: € 6,000,000

Neighbourhood Programme: to improve cross border integration, also regarding public health.
Bulgaria/FYRO Macedonia, until 05.03.2007, Budget: € 450,000 Bulgaria/Turkey, until 06.04.2007, Budget: 465,000

Phare: supporting accession countries.

Bulgaria: to strengthen civil society, until 26.03.2007, Budget: € 2,670,000.

CARDS: for reconstruction, development and stabilisation to the Western Balkans.
Croatia: until 09.02.2007, Budget: 1,000,000

Provision of Basic Health Services to the population.
Afghanistan: until 25.03.2007, Budget: 35,000,000.

7th Research Framework programme: to address global health issues including emerging epidemics.
EU member states & associated countries: Until 19.04.2007, Budget: € 628,000,000. Weblink.  

EU News

European Parliament (EP) Evaluation of Country Strategy papers (CSP)

January 2007

The EP Development Committee will have 4 working groups checking whether the CSPs of Asia and Latin America meet requirements laid out in the Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI), one of them being the 20 percent benchmark on basic health and education. One group also will review the South Africa CSP. The EP has four weeks' time to scrutinise the CSPs. Website.

EC contribution to the Global Fund
December 2007
The European Commission has informally expressed its intent to use all of the 62 million € in the health envelope of the Investing in People (IIP) thematic programme for 2007, for its contribution to the Global Fund. This raises questions about whether there will be any allocations for sexual and reproductive health and rights under IIP in 2007. More about funding opportunities from the Global Fund can be found at: www.theglobalfund.org/en/apply/call6/.

EC-World Bank Civil Society Initiative
12 December 2006
The European Commission and the World Bank signed an agreement establishing a 3-year program to facilitate donor co-ordination in the area of civil society development. The program will support bilateral, multilateral and private foundation donor exchange and co- ordination to benefit a wide range of civil society organisations, especially in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the Former Soviet Union, the Western Balkans, Turkey, plus countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East. See: Website.