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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 Armenia, until 02.06.2008,
budget: 1,500,000.
- In Angola, until 08.07.2008, budget:
2,500,000.
- In DR Congo, until 31.07.2008, budget : 1,250,000.
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In Chile, until 16.05.2008, budget: 1,000,000.
- In Colombia, until
29.05.2008, budget: 2,500,000.
- In Georgia, until 15.07.2008,
budget: 1,940,000.
- In Guinea Equatorial, until 29.05.2008, budget
: 200,000.
- In Guyana, until 15.05.2008, budget: 1,000,000.
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In Indonesia, until 16.06.2008, budget: 970,000.
- In Nepal, until
31.05.2008, budget: 2,000,000.
- In Chad, until 15.07.2008, budget :
1,000,000.
- In Uganda, until 30.06.2008, budget: 1,940,000.
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In Vanuatu, until 27.04.2008, budget: 250,000.
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
Afghanistan, until 15.07.2008, budget: 1,200,000.
- In Indonesia,
until 16.06.2008, budget: 582,000.
- In Insrael, until 19.05.2008,
budget: 875,000.
- In Zimbabwe, until 01.07.2008, budget:
900,000.
Enhancing individual incomes and improving living
standards (including information to health).
- In Tajikistan, until
16.06.2008, budget: 7,500,000.
If you work in the field of SRHR
and need further assistance, please dont hesitate to contact us at:
info-eu@dsw-brussels.org
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EU News: European Commission urges member states to
raise development aid
4 April
The Commission today called on member
states to increase aid levels for the poorest countries, following the
official announcement of the 2007 figures by the OECD. Jose Manuel Barroso
said that member states should set out clearly what they are prepared to
spend on aid, year by year, until 2015. He considered that this will be an
important subject for the European Council in June and for the G8 in
July.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/548&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
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EU News: European Commission Communication The EU -
global partner for development - Accelerating progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals.
The European Commission has adopted a Communication
entitled The EU - global partner for development - Accelerating progress
towards the Millennium Development Goals. It states that according to
very weak human development indicators, especially child and maternal
mortality, the 2015 objectives are unlikely to be met. The Communication
also notes that the number of people dying from HIV has only slightly
declined and that AIDS remains among the leading causes of deaths globally
and the primary cause of deaths in Africa.
http://ec.europa.eu/development/services/news_en.cfm#newsDGdev
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EU News: Council of Europe voted on abortion
report
16 April
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe, consisting of national parliamentarians from the 47 member
states voted on a report proposed by Austrian Socialist MP, Hon. Gisela
Wurm, MP entitled "Access to Safe and Legal Abortion in Europe". The
Report was adopted in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
with 102 votes in favour, 96 votes against and 14 abstentions.
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/APFeaturesManager/defaultArtSiteView.asp?ID=750.%20
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Resources: EU donor atlas 2008
This atlas aims to give an overview of the development
cooperation activities funded by the EC and the 27 member states. There is
the EU donor atlas 2008 global, regional and first benchmarking of EU aid
(which identifies performance benchmarks for the EUs support for
countries in situation of fragility) available athttp://development.donoratlas.eu
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