- The Department headed by Conejero divides the call into three lines: Development Cooperation, International Humanitarian Cooperation and Education for Development
Alicante, December 27, 2021. The Alicante City Council, through the Cooperation Department, has approved grants worth 200,000 euros for different NGOs to develop 26 international cooperation projects this year and next.
The grants from the Department of Immigration, Cooperation and Volunteering, led by María Conejero, are divided into three lines: Development Cooperation Projects, International Humanitarian Cooperation Projects and Education for Development, Awareness and Training Projects. In the first line, the grants go to fifteen projects and total 160,000 euros; in the second line, two projects are financed for 20,000 euros and in the third line there are nine projects subsidized with another 20,000 euros.
With these grants “the involvement of the Alicante City Council with the Global Development Agenda, the 2030 Agenda, is materialized to advance comprehensive development at an environmental, social and economic level,” explained Conejero.
Specifically, the aid for Development Cooperation will go to the following projects: the construction of a female boarding school in Uganda by Rafiki, for which it has obtained 24,983 euros; Access to the right to housing and sanitation for impoverished families in rural areas of the Anantapur district, India, from the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, worth 25,000 euros; Improve the quality of life of children and adolescents in the Ivory Coast, promoted by the Amigó Foundation, for 24,928 euros; Livelihood aid for women in the context of a pandemic in the municipalities of Jocoaitique and Meanguera (El Salvador), from Solidaridad Internacional PV, for 25,000 euros; the strengthening of livelihoods and contribution to the human development of vulnerable producer families in Burkina Faso, from the Red Cross, for 25,000 euros; Children’s Rights of minors and young people in Comayagua (Honduras), from SED, for 24,922 euros; and the Strengthening of the knowledge of the local water resource for the construction of sustainable alternatives of access to water in the municipality of San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán (Guatemala), by Arquitectos Sin Fronteras, for 10,146 euros.
Grants for International Humanitarian Cooperation are divided into two projects with 10,000 euros each. One is from the Red Cross and seeks to improve the system for minors with disabilities in refugee camps in Tindouf. And the other is being carried out by the World Doctors Association to improve access to basic integrated services that have an effect on health in the districts of Balama and Montepuez (Mozambique).
The projects financed for Education for Development, Awareness and Training are: The Hidden Treasure of Titicaca, by Manos Unidas, which receives 2,850 euros; Sports and games: contributions to the SDGs and Agenda 2030, from the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, which obtains 5,000 euros; Located: Bringing the SDGs closer to the citizens of Alicante through performing arts and gamification, from the Red Cross, for 5,000 euros; Exhibition and itinerant activities ODS for all / as in Alicante, of the Dasyc Foundation, which achieves 3,720 euros; and Take part: Change the world on a small scale. Phase V, by Architects Without Borders, for 3,429 euros.
I work with local partners
These lines of subsidies have been approved in the penultimate Governing Board before the end of the year. These are grants that NGOs access in competitive competition.
The Department of Immigration and Cooperation establishes this call for grants in order to co-finance projects promoted by Non-Governmental Development Organizations, such as private law organizations, legally constituted and non-profit, whose purposes are to carry out activities related to the principles and objectives of international development cooperation. These entities always act in collaboration with organizations that act as local partners in the countries of destination of the aid.
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