Dear colleagues and friends,

Please find below the latest edition of our “nEUws”. It heralds several new developments within the EU institutions, upcoming events and calls for proposals.

Contributions, feedback and suggestions are always appreciated!

Best regards,
Katrin

on behalf of Karen Hoehn,
Vice Executive Director

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Katrin Stichtenoth
German Foundation for World Population (DSW)
www.dsw-brussels.org

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katrin.stichtenoth@dsw-brussels.org


Thanks to the DSW Brussels team – Mascha, Matthias and Julio – for contributing to nEUws!

Latest News:

Calls for Proposals
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EU News: Amendments opposing SRHR rejected in vote on Gender Equality report
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Upcoming Events: 15th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly is meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Calls for Proposals

The Calls on the following budget lines are usually open for organizations and projects interested in SRHR. For further details on any of these Calls or corrigenda see the EuropeAid website:http://ec.europa.eu/comm/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

Non-State Actors (NSA) and Local Authorities (LA) in Development: To build capacity of NSA and LA in order to strengthen their participation in poverty reduction and sustainable development.
- In Central African Republic, until 21.04.2008, budget: € 2,500,000.
- In Republic of Congo, until 15.04.2008, budget: € 1,000,000.
- In Côte d’Ivoire, until 04.06.2008, budget : € 2,000,000.
- In Eritrea, until 12.06.2008, budget: € 250,000.
- In Guatemala, until 12.06.2008, budget: € 2,000,000.
- In India, until 06.05.2008, budget: € 4,000,000.
- In Pakistan, until 18.04.2008, budget: € 2,000,000.
- In Somalia, until 04.06.2008, budget: € 2,500,000.
- In Guinea Bissau, until 12.05.2008, budget: € 2,500,000.

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights: To assist civil society to develop greater cohesion in working on human rights, political pluralism and democratic political participation and representation.
- In Ecuador, until until 05.05.2008, budget: € 600,000.
- In Guatemala, until 15.05.2008, budget: € 600,000.
- In Peru, until 14.04.2008, budget: € 1,200,000.
- In Pakistan, until 18.04.2008, budget: € 600,000.
- In Russia, until 21.04.2008, budget: € 1,164,000.
- In Turkey, until 15.05.2008, budget: € 1,164,000.

Investing in People: to support civil society in the area of women's rights and equality between women and men.
- In Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Syria and Tunisia, until 07.05.2008, budget: € 6,808,900.

If you work in the field of SRHR and need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: info-eu@dsw-hannover.de

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EU News: Amendments opposing SRHR rejected in vote on Gender Equality report

13 March

The European Parliament approved in plenary a report entitled: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development, drafted by German Socialist MEP Uca. All amendments rejecting SRHR were voted down. Unfortunately, an amendment mentioning the female condom, put forward by MEP Buitenweg was also rejected. Even though the debate and the amendments showed strong opposition to SRHR of a few MEPs, the outcome of today’s vote is an official European Parliament resolution which is extremely strong on SRHR. Please find the amendments here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sce/server/internet/amend_motions_texts/sce_amend_motions_texts_main_02.jsp?ref=A6-0035/2008

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Upcoming Events: 15th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly is meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia

17-20 March

DSW as a member of the Cotonou Aid Working Group of CONCORD, is organizing a lunch meeting for parliamentarians for a discussion on the 10th European Development Fund. UNFPA will make a presentation on Maternal Mortality and the Fifth Millennium Development Goal on March 18th.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/acp/10_01/default_en.htm

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