SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canarian Government has summoned 172,000 euros of aid for projects of Education for Global Citizenship and Social Transformation towards Cooperation, 15 percent more than last year. including the novelty that it doubles the amount that each initiative can access, which goes from 8,000 to 15,000 euros, and also includes the possibility of expanding the endowment to meet all requests.
This was one of the issues dealt with in the Canary Islands Development Cooperation Advisory Council chaired by Ángel Víctor Torres and convened to report on the state of execution of the various programs and calls for proposals in the area, such as the imminent award of Cooperation to the Development, whose bag amounts this year to 3 million euros, 30 percent more than last year.
Development Cooperation entails the necessary ‘Citizenship Education’, so that the purpose of this call, whose application period will be open until July 11, is to finance awareness, training, research, participation and social mobilization projects in the field of cooperation with third countries, explained the General Director of Foreign Relations of the regional government, Juan Francisco Trujillo, who added that the constant increase in the amount allocated to International Cooperation placed the Canary Islands as the region with the highest growth in the last report of the National Coordinator of NGOs.
The call, Trujillo continued, is addressed to NGOs, unions, business organizations, associations, federations and public and private foundations in the Canary Islands, including Canarian universities and migrant associations, among others.
Having its own legal personality and being at least one year old are some of the requirements to access this aid, which will assess the entity’s ability to carry out the project and its experience, as well as the execution of similar projects in the last four years. , collects a note from the Executive.
Among the criteria related to the project, the quality of the diagnosis of the situation, the effectiveness and viability of the initiative, the development of actions in educational centers from the infant stage to the university stage, the territorial distribution throughout the Canary Islands and the pedagogical approach stand out, as well as of originality and innovation.
100 percent of the subsidy obtained by each project will be paid in advance, which will have a direct impact on the execution of the project because it prevents entities from having to seek pre-financing.
Psicólogos para Todos, Remar Canarias, Asociación Fondo Verde, Asociación Rosa del Desierto, Manos Unidas and Nutrición sin Fronteras were some of the beneficiary entities last year and that will foreseeably aspire to continue their training and awareness initiatives.
NEXT AWARD OF THE 3 MILLION DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
Trujillo also explained that this year almost twice as many entities aspire to the aid bag for Development Cooperation projects than last year, since the Government received 91 applications of which 16 were correctly presented, while various requirements to 75, of which there are only four exclusion proposals, so that as soon as the evaluation stage is complete, the Government will announce the award resolutions.
Trujillo explained in the Advisory Committee that the Canarian Government led a mission to evaluate in Africa some of the programs subsidized by the Executive, as well as to Uruguay to evaluate the projects of the municipality of Cerrillo, where the Parque de Las Brujas, path of los primeros canarios, in the municipality of Atlanta, where a composting project was carried out, and in that of Montevideo, beneficiary of a project for women entrepreneurs.
Added to this was the evaluation of the emigration route carried out in Honduras.
In addition to various meetings with organizations such as UNICEF, Radio ECCA, Aldeas Infantiles and the Coordinadora de NGO de Desarrollo de Canarias, the General Directorate of Foreign Relations held a meeting with more than fifty Canary Islands entities to inform about the bases and terms of the call for aid for Development Cooperation projects.
On the other hand, the director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, Antón Leis, held meetings with the UN World Food Program in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, one of the five on the planet, and with the Help Center of the Red Cross, from where the first tons of aid from Spain were sent
