PIMI II - INTEGRATED PROGRAMME FOR THE REDUCTION OF MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY: STRENGHTENING THE AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE
HEALTH
Guinea-Bissau
Jun 2017 - May 2021
Overview Contribute to the reduction of maternal, neonatal and child mortality and ensure a better access to quality healthcare for pregnant women and women who have recently given birth (up to 45 days after childbirth) and children up to five years old in Guinea-Bissau.
Activities | Results PIMI II - INTEGRATED PROGRAMME FOR THE REDUCTION OF MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY: STRENGHTENING THE AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE
• Provide and distribute medicine as well as medical and clinical stocks. • Ensure mother-infant care in health centres and regional hospitals. • Train Health professionals. • Rehabilitate and equip Health Units. • Improve the management and coordination of Health services. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. Ministry of Public Health of Guinea-Bissau; UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund; EMI Entraide Médicale Internationale
HEALTH FOR ALL: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
Sao Tome and Principe
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
Overview Ensure universal access to quality health care to Sao Tome and Principe’s population and promote the improvement, autonomy and gradual sustainability of preventive, primary and specialized health care services.
HEALTH
Activities | Results HEALTH FOR ALL: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
www.saudeparatodos.pt
• Enable regular and quality level access to specialised health care services. • Empower health care personnel towards a greater self-sufficiency of the national health system. • Provide medicine and medical supplies to guarantee quality preventive and primary health care services. • Support national health programmes. Donors | Partners Camões, I.P. Ministry of Health of Sao Tome and Principe; DGS - Directorate General for Health of Portugal
SUPPORT TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF THE MUNICIPALISATION OF HEALTH SERVICES
Angola
May 2016 – May 2018 (Bié) Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 (Benguela) Overview Support the organisation and management of the health services municipalisation process, by providing ongoing and on-site support to the planning, implementation, monitoring, supervision, information, among others, in six municipalities: Kuito, Andulo and Camacupa (Bié) and Benguela, Lobito and Ganda (Benguela).
HEALTH
Activities | Results SUPPORT TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF THE MUNICIPALISATION OF HEALTH SERVICES
• Support the elaboration of planning, budgeting and monitoring processes of the municipal health authorities, in particular: - Drafting and update of healthcare maps and regular reporting; - Implementation of capacity building activities; - Implementation and functioning of the auditing committees and prevention of maternal, neonatal and child mortality at municipal level. Donors | Partners European Union EDF National Authorising Officer in Angola AEDES – Agence Européenne pour le Développement et La Santé
CAMPAIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND FIGHT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND OTHER PANDEMICS
Cape Verde
Jun 2016 – Jul 2017
Overview Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), promotion of good practices on public health for the prevention of pandemics such as typhus and cholera, and environmental protection especially in riverside areas, in neighbouring communities to the rehabilitation project of the Nelson Mandela’s airport, in Praia.
HEALTH Also in Environment and Sustainability
Activities | Results CAMPAIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND FIGHT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND OTHER PANDEMICS
• Raise awareness of the population, in particular beneficiary communities of the project, on the importance of preventing sexually transmitted diseases (HIV/AIDS) and other pandemics (zika, malaria and dengue), as well as about environmental protection and preservation. • Provide more information about STDs prevention, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS, targeting taxi drivers working near the airport and construction workers engaged on the expansion and modernisation work of the abovementioned airport. • Promote a better understanding of the problems and challenges of beneficiary communities with the appropriate authorities responsible for public health and environment and with the companies, to better solving the constraints. Donors | Partners African Development Bank Government of Cape Verde Ecovisão Cape Verde
SCHOOL + PHASE II
Sao Tome and Principe
Sep 2013 - Dec 2017
Overview Promote the improvement of secondary education, thus contributing to the country’s social and economic development, employability and to the private investment return on Education, as well as to the improvement of the population’s wellbeing.
EDUCATION
Activities | Results SCHOOL + PHASE II
• Improve teacher’s skills through continuous training, cooperation in the 2nd cycle teaching, collaboration in the Principe bachelors’ degree and in the preparation of in-service training. • Reinforce the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Communication, and schools, namely its departments, its pedagogical surveillance sector, the administration and management of the schools and the creation of monitoring committees. Donors | Partners Camões, I.P. Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Communication of Sao Tome and Principe
SUPPORTING THE CONSOLIDATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE (ACES-STP)
Sao Tome and Principe
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Overview Contribute to the improvement of the quality of secondary education in Sao Tome and PrÃncipe through the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Communication (MECCC) in the key areas of school administration and in the definition of both structure and content of continuous and in-service training.
EDUCATION
Activities | Results SUPPORTING THE CONSOLIDATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE (ACES-STP)
• Strengthen the management and monitoring capacities of the national education system through the training of school administration services and the monitoring of the education system; • Regulate and strengthen the structure of Continuous and In-service Training (FCE) through the training of a Coordinating Structure of Continuous and In-service Training. • Improve the teaching of the Portuguese Language and Mathematics in secondary education, by supporting the teaching activities in the Autonomous Region of the Principe and by supporting the elaboration of a strategic plan to improve the skills of students in these curricular units. Donors | Partners Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Communication (MECCC) of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe Camões, I.P
SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIES FOR PEACE IN CAQUETĂ
Colombia
Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Overview
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY Also in Migration, Post-conflict and Humanitarian Action
Contribute to the consolidation of a stable and lasting peace in Colombia through the strengthening of socio-economic and environmental development in the Amazonian territories, fostering, together with territorial entities and social organisations, the improvement of local capacity for the production, processing and marketing of fine and flavour cocoa and by-products, in a profitable and competitive way, in territories affected by the armed conflict, promoting environmental conservation, social inclusion and the consolidation of a culture of peace and legality.
Activities | Results
SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIES FOR PEACE IN CAQUETÁ
• Develop agricultural practices that aim at preserving the environment and introduce key crops in a sustainable context of agricultural diversification. • Promote reforestation through the implementation of integrated agroforestry systems and the reinforcement of associations of indigenous food crops aiming at strengthening their own models of food sovereignty. • Add value to the products of the region’s main production chains (cocoa, coffee, banana and sugar cane) through the strengthening of agroindustry processing systems and a strong focus on gender participation. • Promote the marketing of intermediate and finished products and enhance the value of regional brands. • Strengthen the institutional capacities of the governments of Paujil and La Montañita Municipalities for development and peacebuilding. • Promote town-twinning opportunities between local communities and European municipalities and connect governments’ structures and local institutions to international networks of municipalities and research institutes. • Strengthen the organisational, administrative, technical, financial and social capacities of local entities, especially women-led organisations, and community-based social movements for social inclusion and empowerment. • Strengthen the political participation and civic engagement of citizens in the Municipalities of El Paujil and La Montañita. • Improve rural livelihoods through the provision of public goods adequate for a community-based living. • Construct and/or rehabilitate road, productive and social infrastructure. Donors | Partners Red Adelco European Union and Camões, I.P.
ETIKAPUN N’HA – UROK, RESILIENCE LAB OF THE BIJAGÓ CULTURE
Guinea-Bissau
Jun 2016 – May 2020
Overview Contribute to the sustainable development of the Urok Islands Community-based Marine Protected Area (CMPA), promoting the improvement of socioeconomic conditions and supporting the joint management and participatory governance of cultural and natural resources.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY
Activities | Results
ETIKAPUN N’HA – UROK, RESILIENCE LAB OF THE BIJAGÓ CULTURE
• To Dinamize Strengthening productive and local economy systems namely through: - Supporting the implementation and dissemination of an eco-rural production model; - Helping sustainable fishing activities; - Supporting local economy enhancement.; - Developing an environmental and cultural based tourism proposal; - Establishing and implementing a socioeconomic and cultural monitoring system of the CMPA. • Reinforcing the access to basic social services namely through: - Constructing new water points and rehabilitate/improve the existing ones; - Promoting cleaning and waste reuse campaigns in tabankas; - Promoting teaching quality; - Promoting health quality; - Supporting social infrastructure rehabilitation; - Creating and boosting an information and communication technologies centre. • Promoting the operationality of the community management units of CMPA, mainly: - Ensuring the transfer of the maritime surveillance system to the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Institute (IBAP, in Portuguese); - Supporting the AMPC´s community management and governance organs; - Establishing and implementing the AMPC’s socioeconomic and cultural monitoring system. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. Tiniguena - Esta Terra é Nossa!
UE-ACTIVA – INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY ACTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT – AXIS 1:TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE
Guinea-Bissau
Jul 2015 – Jun 2019
Overview Contribute to improve the social and economic conditions of the population, namely in the Bafata, Quinara and Tombali regions and promote the improvement of the territorial governance of those regions by enhancing civil society.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY
Activities | Results UE-ACTIVA – INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY ACTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT – AXIS 1:TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE
• Enhance civil society’s participation in the design, implementation and monitoring of public policies concerning food and nutrition security. • Promote regional and international exchanges. • Organise forums and conferences on food and nutrition security and sovereignty. • Elaborate and disseminate the Regional Agricultural Development Plans (PDAR, in Portuguese) allowing to boost local economy. • Promote strategic diagnostic reports of the targeted regions, active actors and infrastructures, equipment and support services to the rural value chain. • Partly implement the Regional Agricultural Development Plans through projects developed by non-state actors. • Open tenders for financial support to other organisations in order to partly implementing the Regional Agricultural Development Plans. • Support civil society organisations in the submission of applications for financial support. • Evaluate and select the financial support requests. • Rehabilitate or construct priority community infrastructures within the framework of the Regional Agricultural Development Plans implementation and promotion of the infrastructures community management. • Improve management and strengthen farmers organisations to offer strategic services. • Promote trainings and tutoring in management oriented towards key-producers’ organisations.
Donors | Partners European Union RESSAN-GB (Rede de Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional da Guiné-Bissau)
NÔ FIA NA CRIAS – INTEGRATED COOPERATIVE AND COMMUNITY SYSTEM FOR POULTRY, GOAT FARMING AND BYPRODUCTS FOR THE CACHEU REGION
Guinea-Bissau
Jul 2015 – Jun 2018
Overview Contribute to food and nutritional security to guarantee food sovereignty in the Cacheu region by implementing a sustainable poultry and goat farming production system as well as by developing an integrated cooperative and community production system.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY
Activities | Results NÔ FIA NA CRIAS – INTEGRATED COOPERATIVE AND COMMUNITY SYSTEM FOR POULTRY, GOAT FARMING AND BYPRODUCTS FOR THE CACHEU REGION
• Establish a sustainable cooperative and community production system of chicks and chickens. •Build a meat-processing unit and create a chicken’s trade system at community and regional level. • Develop a pilot initiative of goat production for by-products trading (milk). • Implement a training/information programme targeting breeders, primary animal health care workers and broader community. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. COAJOQ - Cooperativa Agro-Pecuária de Jovens Quadros de Canchungo; AD - Acção Para o Desenvolvimento; Instituto Piaget - Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento Humano, Integral e Ecológico CRL.
KÁ AMUBÁ PROMOTION OF SOLIDARITY ECONOMY TECHNOLOGIES IN THE QUILOMBOS AREAS, MARANHÃO
Brazil
Apr 2013 – Mar 2017 Overview Contribute to poverty reduction and the promotion of the socioeconomic development of the Quilombola’s communities (descendants of former African slaves) in Maranhão, as well as promote the increase of household’s income and the improvement of health conditions in those rural communities, by strengthening local productive activities based upon solidarity economy and social inclusion principles.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY
Activities | Results KÁ AMUBÁ PROMOTION OF SOLIDARITY ECONOMY TECHNOLOGIES IN THE QUILOMBOS AREAS, MARANHÃO
www.quilomboscontemporaneos.org
• Strengthen local products production, transformation and trade ability by equipping productive units, empowering rural technicians and by introducing new production techniques. • Increase the quilombolas local products market outlet capacity, training farmers in transformation, management and trade techniques (products branding with a Quilombola label), improve the sales products packaging and establish commercial synergies with local entities. • Strengthen local civil society, community agents and quilombola associations training in management and cooperative coordination for a more efficient natural resources management, to promote a more inclusive and equal society. • Improve health conditions, by installing sanitary kits, promoting education for health sessions and by creating the Cooperative Social Fund. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. ACONERUQ - Associação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão
SOLIDARITY AND COMMUNITY TOURISM IN THE MAIO ISLAND
Cape Verde
Dec 2017 – Nov 2020
Overview Promote solidarity and sustainable tourism, strengthen and diversify the tourist offer in the Maio Island, by increasing income generating activities and participatory techniques promotion, contributing to the improvement of the population’s living standards.
ENVIROMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Activities | Results SOLIDARITY AND COMMUNITY TOURISM IN THE MAIO ISLAND
• Increase and improve tourist offer in the communities, through sustainable and solidarity economy practices, by rehabilitating and making public spaces more dynamic, equip juvenile centres kitchens, promote radio programmes, cleaning campaigns, house rehabilitation in several sites, awareness raising and capacity building actions. • Upgrade and foster traditional economic activities by reconverting fishing activities for tourism, diversify farm products for local feed, develop actions for animal farming and other economic activities, as well as the creation of a Community Social Fund. • Promote and endure participatory governance processes, with a special focus on tourism, by enhancing associations, training on freedom of association, hotel business, cooking, food security and hygiene, small business management, promotion of social innovation initiatives and youth entrepreneurship, and participatory budget training targeting policy makers and parliamentarians of the Municipal Assembly. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P SDTIBM - Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Turístico das Ilhas da Boa Vista e Maio; Maio Municipality; Loures Municipality
CAMPAIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND FIGHT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND OTHER PANDEMICS
Cape Verde
Jun 2016 – Jul 2017
Overview Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), promotion of good practices on public health for the prevention of pandemics such as typhus and cholera, and environmental protection especially in riverside areas, in neighbouring communities to the rehabilitation project of the Nelson Mandela’s airport, in Praia city.
ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY Also in Health
Activities | Results CAMPAIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND FIGHT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND OTHER PANDEMICS
• Raise awareness of the population, in particular, beneficiary communities of the project, on the importance of preventing sexually transmitted diseases (HIV/AIDS) and other pandemics (zika, malaria and dengue), as well as about environmental protection and preservation. • Provide more information about STDs prevention, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS, targeting taxi drivers working near the airport and construction workers engaged on the expansion and modernisation work of the above-mentioned airport. • Promote a better understanding of the problems and challenges of beneficiary communities with the appropriate authorities responsible for public health and environment and of the companies, to better solve the constraints. Donors | Partners African Development Bank Government of Cape Verde Ecovisão Cape Verde
UE-PAANE - SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR NON-STATE ACTORS “NÔ PINTCHA PA DIZINVOLVIMENTU” – FASE DI KAMBANSA
Guinea-Bissau
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
Overview Contribute to the consolidation of good governance in Guinea-Bissau and ensure the strengthening of participation, collaboration and advocacy skills of the Guinean civil society organisations and social and community media.
CIVIL SOCIETY
Activities | Results UE-PAANE - SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR NON-STATE ACTORS “NÔ PINTCHA PA DIZINVOLVIMENTU” – FASE DI KAMBANSA
www.ue-paane.org
• Improve the political influence skills and implement civil society organisations initiatives through their participation in debates relevant to their interests. • Contribute to the institutional capacity building of the Directorate General for Coordination on Non-Governmental Aid. • Increase the community and social media skills through training aiming to improve the media activity in the country. • Contribute to the institutional consolidation of the Secretariat-General of Social Communication. Donors | Partners European Union
NETWORKING FOR DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL LEARNING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
Portugal
Mar 2014 – Mar 2017
Overview
MUNICIPALITIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Promote development education actions of Local Authorities and Local Authorities Associations able to support a constructive and active dialogue in their communities and foster the accomplishment of international development commitments. Strengthen the role of Local Authorities as effective development cooperation stakeholders as well as to foster opportunities for communities and citizens to engage in actions promoted at local level so as to effectively contribute to sustainable development.
Activities | Results NETWORKING FOR DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL LEARNING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
www.redesparaodesenvolvimento.org/
• Draft and implement the strategic plan of the first Intermunicipal development Cooperation Network (RICD in Portuguese) in Portugal. • Strengthen the network among European Local Authorities and other global stakeholders in development. • Promote innovative approaches in global education. • Strengthen the recognition of Local Authorities as development actors. • Produce and disseminate global education materials, including two hematic exhibitions on Sustainable development Goals. Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. Loures Municipality, Seixal Municipality; RICD - Rede Intermunicipal de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento; fine+p - Forum für internationale entwicklung + planung; Erlangen Municipality; FGCS - Fondo Galego de Cooperación e Solidariedade; LBSNN - Landelijk Beraad Stedenbanden Nederland – Nicaragua; Helmond Municipality; Zoetermeer Municipality; Maastricht Municipality
TOURISM REVITALISATION AND REQUALIFICATION IN THE MAIO ISLAND
Cape Verde
Mar 2016 – Feb 2019
Overview Promote local entrepreneurship and urban rehabilitation as socioeconomic, touristic and cultural development factors in the Maio Island, contributing to the improvement of the population’s living standards.
CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Activities | Results TOURISM REVITALISATION AND REQUALIFICATION IN THE MAIO ISLAND
• Promote and boost entrepreneurship through the economic sector enhancement - reconversion of the Porto Inglês salt pans, namely creating an intensive salt pan, providing training as well as technical and management capacity building (salt production) actions. • Maintain and revitalise local cultural, environmental and touristic heritage, including urban rehabilitation and support to local communities concerning solidarity touristic practices and environmental preservation (promotion and support to craftsmen, creation of tourist routes, beach cleaning and environment awareness, bird watching stations and turtle eggs nurseries). Donors |Partners European Union Camões, I.P. SDTIBM - Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Turístico das Ilhas da Boa Vista e Maio; Maio Municipality; Loures Municipality
LIVE SKETCHING
DEVELOPMENT DICTIONARY – EVERYONE COUNTS FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Portugal
Jul 2017 – Dec 2018
Overview Contribute to the promotion of critical thinking and to the active global citizenship practice by resident citizens in Portugal, namely through their awareness on the existence of world inequalities and a better perception of global interdependences, so as to increase skills to act for a fairer and more sustainable world.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Activities | Results DEVELOPMENT DICTIONARY – EVERYONE COUNTS FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
• Enhance intercultural dialogue for global citizenship. • Promote intercultural learning communities for global citizenship. • Promote debate and reflection within the school community. • Produce a “Development Dictionary”. • Promote awareness raising actions on sustainable development. Donors | Partners Camões, I.P. Fundação Cidade de Lisboa; Associação Renovar a Mouraria
COERÊNCIA.PT:THE PILLAR FOR A FAIRER, MORE DECENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Portugal
Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 Overview Contribute to awareness raising and mobilisation of citizens and local networks in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through their active participation in advocating and fostering Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) and enhance the understanding of PCD among policy makers, civil servants and local actors’ networks.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Activities | Results COERÊNCIA.PT:THE PILLAR FOR A FAIRER, MORE DECENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• Increase the knowledge on PCD mechanisms and tools. • Capacity building of policy makers and civil servants on PCD impact. • Foster an action campaign on PCD.
www.coerencia.pt
• Promote a Global Development National Day. • Inform and raise awareness of local agents and citizens on PCD subjects and the role that they can have as advocators. Donors | Partners Camões, I.P. FEC - Fundação Fé e Cooperação; CIDSE Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité
COORDINATES FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP – SEE,ACT AND TRANSFORM
Portugal
Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 Overview Contribute to an active engagement of citizens as co-creators of a more sustainable, decent and fairer society, by enhancing young adults’ life skills, within an innovative and creative approach, through the development and dissemination of pedagogic tourist routes, that urge the reflection and action towards social transformation.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Activities | Results COORDINATES FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP – SEE,ACT AND TRANSFORM
www.coordenadas.pt
• Enhance young adults’ life skills through a pedagogic and innovative Global Citizenship Education (ECG) approach. • Strengthen civil society’s young adults’ skills so as to better perceive the glocal connections and to act as multiplier agents. • Create a pedagogic touristic routes market where global and local subjects are approached in an interdependent perspective. • Foster a website that comprises reflection, activities, management and project’s results. Donors | Partners Camões, I.P. Par - Respostas Sociais; Associação Renovar a Mouraria
MAKE FRUIT FAIR! – A BOOST FOR FAIR TROPICAL FRUITS IN THE 2015 EUROPEAN YEAR FOR DEVELOPMENT AND BEYOND
Portugal
Mar 2015 – Feb 2018 Overview Raise awareness of European citizens on the constraints associated to the tropical fruit intensive production – bananas and pineapples – through an advocacy campaign on responsible consumption and urge the European Union, Governments, retailers and food industry to ensure fair conditions in the tropical fruit sector, in order to guarantee fair and sustainable supply chains.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Activities | Results MAKE FRUIT FAIR! – A BOOST FOR FAIR TROPICAL FRUITS IN THE 2015 EUROPEAN YEAR FOR DEVELOPMENT AND BEYOND
www.makefruitfair.org/pt-pt
• Capacity building of 150 multipliers in, at least, 20 member states. • Develop a strong communication campaign to raise awareness of 20 million European citizens. • Enhance critical thinking of 3 million consumers in, at least, 20 member states on the importance of tropical fruit supply chains. • Mobilize 200 thousand citizens to act on behalf of fairer conditions in the tropical fruit sector, ensuring more sustainable consumption patterns. • Engage 200 corporate decision makers and 1.300 political decision makers at European level, to act on behalf of fairer conditions on the tropical fruit sector. • Develop a sustainable structure of a pan-European civil society organisations network of, at least, 20 member states.
Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. Oxfam Deutschland; Buy Responsibly Foundation; Peuples Solidaires; ACC; Mai Bine; BanaFair; BananaLink; EAP; FAWU; Fine+p; GVC; KK; PSO; SINTRAINAGRO; COLSIBA; FTAO; Südwind; TVE; Urocal; WINFA; Green Liberty; PGN; Focus; Mondo; FWC; Alianza por la Solidariedad; Živica; Green Action; Žali.L
GLP ÂMAGO
SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
Portugal
Feb 2015 – Jan 2018
Overview
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Contribute to a coherent and comprehensive response to the universal challenges of poverty eradication and sustainable development, by promoting decent living and enhancing the skills of Development Networks and Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Networks in 46 national and international territories so as to face current global challenges – migrations, climate change and resources scarcity, through the implementation of local initiatives.
Activities | Results SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
pt.solidarityeconomy.eu/
• Disseminate and share practices among development networks and SSE networks thus allowing to enhance knowledge and training on SSE. • Strengthen European NGDOs and public institutions skills on the liaison between SSE and poverty eradication through trainings and publications. • Strengthen and increase European citizens awareness on the liaison between SSE and poverty eradication. • Promote local events in order to enhance the knowledge about the impact of SSE. • Create a user friendly European interactive map on SSE practices, organised by different taxonomies.
Donors | Partners European Union Camões, I.P. COSPE; Südwind Agentur; SOS-FAIM; Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy; DEŠA – Dubrovnik; CARDET; Ekumenická akademie Praha – EAP; NGO Mondo; Pro Ethical Trade Finland; Ressources Humaines Sans Frontières; INKOTAnetzwerks; Fair Trade Hellas; Cromo Foundation, Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights; Fair Watch Cooperazione e Mondialità; Waterford One World Centre; Green Liberty; KOPIN; Alliance of Associations; Polish Green Network; Fundatia Terra Mileniul III; Slovak Centre for Communication and Development; Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies; Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional /CERAI; The Co-operative College; Think Global.
EU ECHO/BERNAL REVERT
MORE AND BETTER EU AID VOLUNTEERS: ENHANCING TECHNICAL CAPACITY OF EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS AND IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EU CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN HUMANITARIAN AID ACTIONS
MIGRATION, POST-CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION
Portugal
Feb 2017 – Jan 2019
Overview Inform and engage in EUAV initiative 3 European platforms and at least 38 organizations, strengthening their skills in Humanitarian Action and EUAV initiative through e-learning trainings, an international residential training of trainers, national trainings implemented in 9 European countries, an online toolkit, public conferences and communication activities.
Activities | Results MORE AND BETTER EU AID VOLUNTEERS: ENHANCING TECHNICAL CAPACITY OF EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS AND IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EU CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN HUMANITARIAN AID ACTIONS
• Mapping and needs assessment of civil society organisations engaged in Humanitarian Action; • E-learning training; • International residential training of trainers with 18 experts; • 9 national trainings; • Online toolkit, upscaling of the toolkit developed in previous EU Aid Volunteers project; • 7 exchanges of staff between certified sending organizations and prospecting certified partners; • Final conference and meeting; • Communication/dissemination activities: university talks, videos production, conferences, communication material production. Donors | Partners European Union GVC; APS; EEsti PtP; NGO SC; LAPAS – national platform; JKC; SLOGA – national platform; HAND – national platform; University of Bolonha
SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIES FOR PEACE IN CAQUETĂ
Colombia
Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Overview
MIGRATION, POST-CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION Also in Rural Development and Food Security
Contribute to the consolidation of a stable and lasting peace in Colombia through the strengthening of socio-economic and environmental development in the Amazonian territories, fostering, together with territorial entities and social organisations, the improvement of local capacity for the production, processing and marketing of fine and flavour cocoa and by-products, in a profitable and competitive way, in territories affected by the armed conflict, promoting environmental conservation, social inclusion and the consolidation of a culture of peace and legality.
Activities | Results
SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIES FOR PEACE IN CAQUETÁ
• Develop agricultural practices that aim at preserving the environment and introduce key crops in a sustainable context of agricultural diversification. • Promote reforestation through the implementation of integrated agroforestry systems and the reinforcement of associations of indigenous food crops aiming at strengthening their own models of food sovereignty. • Add value to the products of the region’s main production chains (cocoa, coffee, banana and sugar cane) through the strengthening of agroindustry processing systems and a strong focus on gender participation. • Promote the marketing of intermediate and finished products and enhance the value of regional brands. • Strengthen the institutional capacities of the governments of Paujil and La Montañita Municipalities for development and peacebuilding. • Promote town-twinning opportunities between local communities and European municipalities and connect governments’ structures and local institutions to international networks of municipalities and research institutes. • Strengthen the organisational, administrative, technical, financial and social capacities of local entities, especially women-led organisations, and community-based social movements for social inclusion and empowerment. • Strengthen the political participation and civic engagement of citizens in the Municipalities of El Paujil and La Montañita. • Improve rural livelihoods through the provision of public goods adequate for a community-based living. • Construct and/or rehabilitate road, productive and social infrastructure. Donors | Partners Red Adelco European Union and Camões, I.P.
CIVACT - EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Portugal
Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 Overview Enhance the debate about policies and values of the European Union, promoting citizens participation, including refugees and migrants, in building narratives to foster intercultural dialogues, mutual understanding and the creation of more inclusive and fair societies.
MIGRATION, POST-CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION
Activities | Results CIVACT - EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
• Create a Management Committee that monitors all project´s activities. • Implement a survey and enhance a focus group to monitor the population’s perceptions and the stereotypes on migration and European policies addressing these issues. • Select and enhance a youth volunteers group (18 to 30 years old) to be engaged on the awareness raising activities and on the reflection concerning migration and intercultural topics, with the aim to analyse existing stereotypes and build a narrative. • Promote structured dialogues and workshops with the participation of policy makers and experts at European level, youth, migrants, Local Authorities and citizens. • Organise a national conference to analyse causes and effects of migration crisis and debate the narrative proposed by the volunteer youth group. • Implement an international intercultural festival, in Italy, with participants from all the countries participating in the project. Donors | Partners European Union CARDET; AEXCID; Culture et Développement, IRTEA, FELCOS Umbria; COPE