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Calls for Proposals
The Calls on the following budget lines are usually open
for organisations 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
Non-State Actors and Local Authorities:
In: Sri-Lanka,
until 01/03/2012, budget: 2,134,000 EUR. min grant size: 150,000 EUR. max
grant size: 400,000 EUR.
Human Rights
In: Papua New
Guinea, until 02/04/2012, budget: 288,000 EUR. min grant size: 100,000
EUR. max grant size: 288,000 EUR.
Food Security
In:
Afghanistan, until 20/02/2012, budget: 6,000,000 EUR. min grant size:
750,000 EUR. max grant size: 2,000,000 EUR
Civil Society
Facility Partnership Programme
In: Western Balkans and Turkey,
until 13/04/2012, budget 11,000,000 EUR. min grant size: 500,000 EUR. max
grant size: 800,000 EUR.
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EU News: European Commission publishes the European
budget for 2012. Included in the health budget line was a contribution to
GFATM, and funding for the Pilot Project on the East African CSO network
for MDG5
11 January, Brussels, Belgium
The final data of
the budget 2012 is now available online. The funds for the EU external
action instruments (heading 4, “EU as a global player”) amounted to a
total of €6,955 billion, which is a decrease of 4% compared to the 2011
budget. Within the health budget line, the EU pledges to pay out funds
worth €38,190 billion (i.e. a 17% increase in last years 2011 budget) to
specific initiatives and actual payments worth €15,463,856 billion. This
represents 2.55% of the total budget for the external actions to ACP
countries.
Other interesting budget lines are the EU’s
contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
(GFATM) with a commitment of €50 billion (€47,272,951 in payments) which
is a decrease of 23% compared to the 2011 budget; and funding towards the
Pilot project for an East African CSO network on MDG 5 with a commitment
of €2 billion and € 1 billion in payments. For the full EU budget 2012 for
external affairs instruments, please visit:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/LBL2012/EN/SEC03.pdf
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EU News: DSW calls on senior officials from the
German Ministry for Development to reaffirm their position on health
regarding the EU’s Multi Financial Framework and its development agenda
for change
18 January, Berlin, Germany
At a meeting between
civil society representatives from the German Platform VENRO and senior
officials from the German Development Minister, DSW Brussels asked for
clarifications regarding the German position on the EU budget proposal for
external action financing instruments, in particular the 0.7% GNI ODA
target by 2015. A senior official confirmed that Germany will ask for a
ceiling of 1% GNI contribution to the EU budget and will work through the
rest of the budget applying a top-down approach. Moreover, the German
minister would try to preserve the budget for development instruments and
work towards the target of having 0.7% GNI committed for official
development assistance. Further to DSW’s follow-up question concerning the
inconsistency between the EC’s proposal for an ‘Agenda for Change’ which
earmarks 20% of general EU aid to health and education, the Ministry’s
official in charge of this dossier took note of the comment, acknowledging
that the Agenda for Change did indeed mention a 20% benchmark throughout
the EU ODA, including potentially the European Development Fund. To access
all the official documents on the EU’s Multi Financial Framework, please
see: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/biblio/documents/fin_fwk1420/fin_fwk1420_en.cfm
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EU News: DSW releases a statement on the allocation
of the MDG initiative and the rejection of Kenyan and Ethiopian
submissions on MDG 5
20 January, Brussels, Belgium
In a European
Commission press release on December 21st 2011, the EU announced the list
of projects and countries that will receive additional funds through the
Millennium Development Goal initiative launched in September 2010. The aim
of this initiative was to specifically use reserved funds from the
European Development Fund to focus on the most off-tracked goals, namely:
MDG 4 (child health), MDG 5 (maternal health), and MDG 7c (water and
sanitation).
The European Commission had rejected Kenyan and Ethiopian
government proposals worth a total of 94 million EUR in support of
maternal health. In response to the announcement, DSW Brussels released a
statement on 20 January regarding this decision to reject of Kenya’s and
Ethiopia’s proposals. “While DSW applauds the initiative from EU, we are
extremely disappointed that Kenya and Ethiopia, which have some of the
highest maternal mortality rates, have been excluded from the funding
process. Why?” asked Karen Hoehn, Vice Executive Director, DSW.“Given the
tremendous effort that was put in by all partners involved, we call on the
EU Commission to provide greater transparency regarding its decision
making process. Considering that the EU identified MDGs 4 and 5 as
priorities for the EU MDG initiative, stakeholders and civil society
deserve an explanation.” She added that, “DSW will continue to offer
consultations and support to these countries as well as our other partner
countri es.” To read more on the MDG initiative, please: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1563
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EU News: Bill Gates speaks to Development Committee
of the European Parliament
24 January 2012, Brussels
Bill Gates gave a
presentation entitled ‘Living Proof - a Dialogue on Development Aid’ to a
full hemicycle in the European Parliament, underlining with enthusiasm the
impact of aid. Gates focused his presentation on the importance of saving
children lives through two main strands of work of the Foundation: health
and agriculture. While discussing vaccines and access to medicine for new
borns and children under 5 years, Gates also stressed the importance of
maternal health, education to mothers, as well as neo-natal and paediatric
health services. In the context of scepticism and economic recession, he
finally urged the European Union to live up to its commitment (0.7 percent
of Gross National income for official development assistance by 2015) and
show leadership while negotiating the 2014-2020 EU aid budget.
To read
more, please see: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20120123IPR35958/html/Bill-Gates-urges-Parliament-to-retain-development-aid-goals-in-next-EU-budget
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EU News: European Parliament Committee working on
women rights and gender’s equality debates study on the Gender equality
perspective in the new Multi annual financial framework for
2014-2020
26 January Brussels, Belgium
The European
Committee working on women rights and gender equality presented a study on
the gender equality perspective in the new multi-annual financial
framework for 2014-2020. The study recommended setting up clear objectives
and having dedicated monitoring mechanisms to evaluate mainstreaming
activities, and to create specific activities in support of gender
equality.
This study follows the 2011 report on the implementation
of “the EU plan of Action on gender equality and women empowerment in
development 2011-2015”. This report outlines the need to better integrate
gender equality and empowerment in all different sectors of the EU’s
bilateral cooperation, not only in the thematic programmes of the DCI.
Some of the recommendations contained within the report include: to
strengthen capacity building of EU delegation staff with additional
guidance on plan indicators and the role of EU lead donors on gender; to
develop baselines for indicators; to improve the exchange of information
at EU delegation level but also between the delegations, the Member States
and the Commission; and to consider the creation of a gender specific
mechanism for implementing gender equality projects. Please read the full
study here: http://www.europarl.eur
opa.eu/document/activities/cont/201201/20120123ATT36024/20120123ATT36024EN.pdf
Please
find the full 2011 report on the implementation of “The EU Plan of Action
on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in Development 2011-2015”, here:
http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-gender/document/2011-report-implementation-gender-action-plan-0
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EU News: DSW demands clarification from European
Commission and the European External Action Services officials regarding
the new Pan-African Programme
27 January, Brussels, Belgium
Senior officials
from the European Commission DG DEVCO and the European External Action
department presented the proposal for a Pan-African Programme under the
new DCI for 2014-2020 to civil society representatives. On the occasion,
DSW Brussels inquired how this new programme would be implemented, in
particular regarding the MDG partnership, support to the Accelerated
Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) Campaign, and to the
Maputo Plan of Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. José
Costa Pereira, head of the Pan-African Affairs division EEAS, responded
that it is difficult to state the content of the next action plan, how
many partnerships will remain, or what issues will be part of the Action
plan before the Africa-EU Summit next year which will shape the focus of
the programme. Roland Zinzius, Deputy Head of Unit Africa-EU Partnership,
Peace Facility unit in DEVCO added that an evaluation of the current
action plan and a consultation of the Mem ber States is currently ongoing.
Concerning the MDG partnership, the results are mixed and although the
next action plan might decide to focus solely on issues that could be best
supported at transnational and continental levels, the Commission will
welcome an evaluation of the specific programmes within the partnership.
To read the full text of the DCI proposal which includes the new
Pan-African Programme, please visit the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/finance/documents/prop_reg_instrument_dev_coop_en.pdf
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