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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,
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?do=publi.welcome.
Regional
Funding:
Poverty Reduction Programme II - Improvement of the Non
State Actors' Capacity to support Community Based Organizations
In:
Jamaica, until: 31.05.2010, budget 40,000,000 JMD
PARSS, Programme
d’Appui à la Reforme du Secteur Sécuritaire, Réinsertion des
ex-combattants de la guerre de libération (volet nº1)
In: Guinea
Bissau, until: 07.05.2010, budget: 1,200,000 €
ALFA, Second
Phase
In: Latina America, until: 25.06.2010, budget: 27,000,000
€
Thematic Funding:
Programme thématique sécurité
alimentaire en République centrafricaine-composante post-crise LRRD
In:
Central African Republic (CAR), until: 17.05.2010, budget: 5,000,000
€
European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
Country Based Support Schemes (CBSS)
In: Papua New Guinea, until: *
Budget: 298,000 €
In: Morocco, until: 26.05.2010, budget: 2,400,000
€
In: Kosovo, until: 11.05.2010, budget: 1,746,000 €
In: Armenia,
until: 07.05.2010, budget: 600,000 €
In: Mexico, until: 21.06.2010,
budget: 600,000 €
In: Kyrgyzstan, until: 01.07.2010, budget: 913,115 €
*Due to technical problems this information was not available.
Please contact Aidco for further information, or see next nEUws for the
missing information.
Non State Actors and Local Authorities in
Development
In: Cambodia, until: 10.05.2010, budget: 3,758,000
€
In: Mauritania, until: 25.05.2010, budget: 2.860.000 €
In:
Kyrgyzstan, until: 01.07.2010, budget: 750,000 €
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 importance of reproductive health is
expressed at Oxfam Millennium Development Goal (MDG) hearing
23 March
MEP Michael Cashman, in collaboration
with Oxfam International organized an event to ensure the voices of the
South are heard by key policy makers. Testimonies were also given from the
W8 – eight women from around the world who have been dedicated themselves
to fight for health and education in their own countries. The morning
commenced with a high-level panel which brought together decision makers
including Andris Piebalgs, Development Commissioner and Peter Moors,
Belgium’s Director-General for Development Cooperation. This was followed
by an afternoon session consisting of two workshops on health and
education. During the workshop on health, MEP Judith Sargentini, member of
the Development Committee, expressed her views on the importance of
reproductive health and rights for the achievement of the health MDGs. For
more information on this event, visit:http://www.oxfam!
.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2010-03-23/europe-millennium-development-goals-w
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EU News: European Parliament (EP) resolution on
combating female genital mutilation in the EU
24 March
The EP roundly condemned female genital
mutilation (FGM) as a violation of fundamental human rights as well as a
savage breach of the integrity and personality of women and girls. It
called on the Commission and Member States to draw up an overall strategy
aimed at banishing FGM from the EU and to provide the means required to
enable real and potential victims to be properly protected. It has also
called for an improvement in the legal status of women and girls in
countries where FGM is practiced, in order to increase women's
self-confidence and their independent initiative and responsibility. The
resolution can be found at:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2009-0161+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
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EU News: EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton
present outline of External Action Service (EAS)
25 March
After a lengthy power struggle between
the European Commission and member states, Ms. Ashton has completed her
proposal for the structure of the EAS well ahead of schedule. Her
blueprint envisages that the EU development commissioner, who is in charge
of a multi-billion budget and his colleague responsible for neighborhood
policy, will work in parallel. It also includes that “the European
Development Fund and the Development Cooperation Instrument, […] shall be
prepared by the relevant services in the EAS and in the Commission under
the direct supervision and guidance of the commissioner responsible for
development policy and then jointly submitted with the High Representative
for decision by the Commission,". It is felt by the European Parliament
that the proposed artificial separation of part of the development
competences between EAS services and Commission services is a recipe for
incoherence. It will be important to guarantee that development policy
decisions are effect! ive and are not made to satisfy the EU’s political
and strategic objectives. The proposal can be retrieved at:http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/113559.pdf
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EU News: European Parliament spells out budgetary
priorities for 2011
25 March
As the first EU institution to adopt an
official opinion on the EU budget for 2011, the European Parliament (EP)
approved a resolution defining its priorities for the upcoming budget
procedure. Whereas more funding for the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) or specific mentioning of health in developing
countries is entirely missing from the text, the EP's position has to be
considered as starting point to the upcoming budgetary procedure,
involving also the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers.
Most importantly for SRHR advocates, the European Commission is expected
to present its Draft Budget to the EP on 28 April, which will then be open
for budgetary amendments from the EP until September 2010. The whole text
of the relevant EP priorities can be found here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=!
-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2010-0086+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=E
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EU News: Gender Violence takes the centre stage at
the 5th Meeting of Spanish and African Women for a Better World
26 March
More than five hundred women from five
continents called for women's rights, especially for African women and
urged all governments to put the fight against gender violence on their
political agendas. The event which falls within the framework of the
Spanish Presidency champions Spain even further as they have already
wholeheartedly set the defense of gender equality as a priority of an EU
Presidency for the first time. The event focused on education, health
care, female empowerment and economic development. One of the speakers,
the First Vice President of the Spanish Government, Maria Teresa Fernandez
de la Vega, called on all women and men to cross the bridge of inequality
and to “burn, once and for all, the bridge of inequality, half-measures,
indifference and injustice.” The session also included round table
discussions on a wide range of issues including, new economic challenges:
economic growth in Africa; and sexual and reproductive rights. More
information can be fo! und at:http://www.eu2010.es/e
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EU News: Spain continues to champion its support for
gender equality by 2020
28 March
The President of the Spanish Government
and current rotational President of the European Union, José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero spoke at a conference on 'Women for a Better World' in
Valencia where he maintained support for gender equality. He confirmed
that Spain will continue its support for the inclusion of the "complete
affirmation of equality between men and women" in the 'Europe 2020'
strategy’. This equality “continues”, said the President of the Spanish
Government, with health rights, to fight against the fact 58 percent of
African women are at risk of suffering from AIDS; for the right to
education, because “it is also intolerable that out of a total of 920
million illiterate people, 600 million of them are women”. More
information can be found at:http://www.eu2010.es/en/documentosynoticias/noticias/mar28clausuracumbrevalencia.html
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Upcoming Events: Innovative ways to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be discussed at the 19th session of
the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA)
27 March – 1 April
The 19th session of the ACP-EU
JPA is being held in Tenerife to bring together 78 Members of the European
Parliament and parliamentarians from the 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific
States which are signatories of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. As
usual, the Assembly will hear the European Commission and the ACP-EU
Council and will hold debates with both institutions. One key document
amongst many which is being discussed is a draft report on ‘achieving the
MDGs: innovative responses to meet the social and economic challenges’
drafted by the Parliamentary Committee on Social Affairs and the
Environment. This report highlights that MDG targets are not being met and
“regarding MDG 5 (improving maternal health), the world will fall well
short of the target related to maternal mortality at the present rate of
progress.” The draft document can be found here:http://www.europarl.e!
uropa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/acp/dt/801/801127/801127en.pdf
More
information on this event can be retrieved from the ACP-EU JPA website:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/acp/60_19/default_en.htm
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Upcoming Events: World Health Day
7 April
World Health is celebrated to mark the
founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s celebration
is to focus on urbanization and health. The theme was selected in
recognition of the effect urbanization has on our collective health
globally and for us all individually. On this day around the globe,
thousands of events mark the importance of health for productive and happy
lives. For more information, visit:http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en/
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