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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 Myanmar, until 01.09.2008,
budget: 950,000 €.
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 Egypt, until 09.10.2008, budget: 873,000
€.
- In Haiti, until 30.09.2008, budget: 900,000 €.
- In Jordan,
until 05.10.2008, budget: 1,746,000 €.
If you work in the field of
SRHR and need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact us at:
info-eu@dsw-brussels.org
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EU News: The European Council’s Agenda for action on
the Millennium Development Goals does not include any clear financial
commitments
19-20 June
“The EU as a global partner for
pro-poor and pro-growth development: EU Agenda for Action on MDGs",
mentions that: “the EU will urgently support the attainment of the target
set in 2005 regarding universal access to reproductive health” (see nEUws
107). Very vague criteria on financing say that “if the EU proportion of
aid flow remained constant at 60% (which implies a scaling-up of aid by
other donors), and the related share of the sector remained, this would
mean the EU would increase its support by € 8 billion by 2010, of which
almost €6 billion would be for Africa.” That contribution will then be
expected to contribute to 75 million more bednets in Africa and the EU
would then also further support the Global Fund to fight Aids,
Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as UNITAID.
http://www.eu2008.si/en/News_and_Documents/Fact-summit-JUNE/0616_EC_Priloga.pdf
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EU News: G8 Declaration on Development and
Africa
8 July
This declaration welcomes the “The Toyako
Framework for Action on Global Health”, a report report submitted by our
health experts including matrices, showing G8 implementation of past
commitments to ensure accountability. See:
http://www.g8summit.go.jp/doc/pdf/0708_09_en.pdf
The
declaration notes that “Reproductive health should be made widely
accessible. The G8 will take concrete steps to work toward improving the
link between HIV/AIDS activities and sexual and reproductive health and
voluntary family planning programs”. On Malaria the Declaration says the
G8 “will continue to expand access to long-lasting insecticide treated
nets, with a view to providing 100 million nets through bilateral and
multilateral assistance, in partnership with other stakeholders by the end
of 2010.”
http://www.g8summit.go.jp/eng/doc/doc080709_03_en.html
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EU News: European Parliament recommendations to the
Council on the EU priorities for the UN General Assembly include
SRH
9 July
“Maternal mortality rates remain
unacceptably high in many developing countries: with more than 500 000
women dying each year from treatable and preventable complications
relating to pregnancy and childbirth”. The recommendations urge EU Member
States to dramatically “step up efforts and funding so as to ensure
universal access to sexual and reproductive health information and
services, which are essential for the attainment of the health MDGs,
gender equality and the fight against poverty.”
Please find the
recommendations at:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+20080709+TOC+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=E
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EU News: UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
2-18 June
The problem of preventable maternal
mortality was discussed for the first time in this forum. One of the
recommendations says: “creating a mechanism to hold States and others to
account in relation to maternal mortality and incorporating maternal
mortality as a critical component of its new Universal Periodic Review
mechanism.”
More information is available at:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
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Upcoming Events: World Population Day focuses on
Family Planning
11 July
This year’s theme provides an opportunity
to build awareness of the importance of family planning to a wide range of
development issues, including gender equality, poverty, maternal health
and human rights.
Please see:
http://www.unfpa.org/wpd/
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Upcoming Events: 17th International AIDS Conference
includes a session on sexual and reproductive health needs of people
living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
3-8 August
This conference features a meeting (on
the 7th of August) called “Sex and Sensibility” which focuses on sexual
and reproductive health needs of PLWHA. The panel discussion will include
the topic of unwanted pregnancy and abortion services for HIV-positive
women. Please see the full program at:
http://www.aids2008.org/Pag/PAG.aspx
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Upccoming Events: International Conference on Rights
and Realities in Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights
10-11 November
Jointly organized by World
Population Foundation (WPF) and Youth Incentives (YI), the idea behind
this initiative is to get together community advocating for SRHR with the
Rights Based Approach (RBA) to discuss its challenges and to identify
strategies to overcome obstacles.
For more information please visit:
http://www.wpf.org/
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Resources: French Presidency of the Council of the
European Union launched website
The provisional calendar for the second half of 2008 and
the calendar of events for July can be accessed at:
http://www.ue2008.fr/PFUE/lang/en/accueil
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