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Main
International Cooperation Projects 2005
During the year 2005 we have selected, identified and formulated the following
projects:
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GERMANY, SPAIN, FRANCE and
PORTUGAL "deSOLaSOL":
Photovoltaic for small investors in Germany, Spain, France and Portugal
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Project
for the "Intelligent Energy - Alterner" Budget Line of the European Comission |
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EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo
ECODES, Spain
CIVES
MUNDI, Spain
AVENIA,
Spain
Banco TRIODOS, Spain
ECO VISION,
Germany
HESPUL,
France
La NEF,
France
Associação de Productores
Forestais, AFLOPS, Portugal
SUMMARY
This
18 months duration project aims to disseminate the best grid connected
joint ownership photovoltaic (PV) plants existing models and experience
in Germany, Spain, France and Portugal, thus contributing to the general
development of PV.
OBJETIVE
The project aims to widen the
democratization of renewable energy sources, to promote
grid-connected PV solar energy, to provide the necessary tools for the
implementation of solar installations by small producers (Germany,
Spain, France and Portugal).
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RESULTS
A- Project properly administrated,
coordinated and evaluated.
B- Market research and legal frameworks
correctly compared and diffused in order to be established in other
contexts.
C- Facilitated the reproduction of
successful projects in Germany, Spain, France and Portugal.
D- Adequate methodology and information
on financing mechanisms.
E- Actors of civil society properly
awarded, interested and capable to reproduce the experiences.
F-Network of discussion and undertaking
of actions properly conformed and operating in the countries.
G- Activities of common diffusion.
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DURATION
18 months
BUDGET
464.544 Euros
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ECUADOR and PERU
"PACHAMAMA" :
Strengthening of planning,
management and negotiation capacities of black and native communities in Equador and
Peru. Project
for the 19.04.03- Support for promoting the Rights of Indigenous Pepole- Budgetline of the European Comission |
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LOCAL PARTNERS
Centro de Investigaciones, CIUDAD, Ecuador
Asociación para la Defensa y Desarrollo de Kuelap,
Peru
SUMMARY
This
project wants to contribute to the strengthening of planning,
management and negotiation capacities of black and native
grassroots communities
in Equator and Peru in order to make real their rights to the
participatory management of their territories; their quality of life
improvement; and the management and conservation of their natural
resources, and development in the framework of their culture.
OBJECTIVE
Contributing to the
elimination of any kind of discrimination against South American black
and native grassroots
communities thanks to
training in order to participate, contribute, apply and give monitoring
to the
mechanisms and international plan of action
connected with
promotion and protection of their rights.
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RESULTS
A-
Black and native grassroots communities of Imbabura
and Carchi and Luya - Amazon are aware of the
International Labour Organization’s Agreement 169 contents; trained and
qualified to make active their rights to participate in the management
of their territories, the
improvement of
their quality of life, their natural
resources management and conservation, and the development in the
framework of their own culture.
B- Black and native grassroots communities have
increased their degree of internal organization and are capable to carry
out social control, to participate and contribute to the public politic
proposal definition that involves the participating management of their
territories, the
improvement
their quality of life , the management and
conservation of their natural resources, and the development in the
framework of their own culture.
C- Black and native grassroots communities are
capable of developing productive development plans and projects that
contribute to the
improvement of their quality of life, the management and
conservation of their natural resources, and the development in the
framework of their own culture.
D- Black and native grassroots communities are
fortified due to regional and international exchanges of experiences.
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E- Social organizations in Germany and Spain are
aware of
the International Labour Organization’s Agreement 169
contents and the situation of Ecuadorian and Peruvian black and native
communities participating in the project.
F. The project is
efficiently managed, coordinated, monitored and evaluated
DURATION
Two years
BUDGET
476.150 Euros
EUROPEAN PARTNERS
KATE,
Kontaktstelle für Umwelt & Entwicklung, Germany
Asociación para la Cooperación con el Sur,
ACSUR -las Segovias, Spain
ASDE, Alternatives for Sustainable
Development, Spain
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TUNISIA
"BIOasis" : Maintaining the Biodiversity of the oasis of
Chenini-Gabès' ecosystem.
Project
for the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation's
calling for proposals for NGOs. |
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LOCAL
PARTNERS
Association de Sauvegarde de
l'Oasis de Chenini-Gabes, ASOC, Tunisia
SUMMARY
This project aims to maintain
biodiversity by fighting against genetic erosion of the vulnerable
ecosystem of the Oasis of Chenini Gabès, situated 400 km. in
the south-east of
Tunisia.
OBJECTIVE
To guarantee the food
sovereignty food thanks to the production of not hybrid seeds, by
promoting the sustainable rural development of the Oasis of Chenini
Gabès.
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RESULTS
A.
Seeds of the oasis are inventoried and available
to the population.
B. Seeds are
produced in situ and selected by the ASOC.
C. Farmers "fellahs"
are trained in order to produce not hybrid seeds.
D.
Population is aware and involved in the use of the genetic
patrimony.
F-The project is efficiently managed, coordinated, monitored and
evaluated
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DURATION
Two
years
BUDGET
119.413,5 Euros
EUROPEAN
PARTNERS
CIVES MUNDI, Spain
ASDE Alternatives for Sustainable
Development, Spain

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TUNISIA "NATURALmente" -Improving
the Urban Solid Residues management of the Oasis of Chenini-Gabès.
Project
for the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation's
calling for proposals for NGOs. |
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LOCAL
PARTNERS
Association de Sauvegarde de
l'Oasis de Chenini-Gabes, ASOC, Tunisia
SUMMARY
The project aims
to improve the Chenini population’s quality of life and health by
protecting the Oasis’ vulnerable ecosystem.
OBJECTIVE
To improve the quality of life of the
population from the Oasis of Chenini-Nahal, with the optimization of
a sustainable and orderly management of the Urban Solid Residues (USR)
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RESULTS
A.USR are collected and
classified properly at a domestic level in one Chenini-Nahal’s
neighbourhood.
B. An itinerary of classification and
harvesting of USR process is created.
C. USR processed and recycled in a
sustainable way
D. Population is aware, involved and
implied in the protection of the environment.
E. The project is
efficiently managed, coordinated, monitored and evaluated
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DURATION
Two
years
BUDGET
117.931,39
Euros
EUROPEAN
PARTNERS
CIVES MUNDI, Spain
ASDE Alternatives for Sustainable
Development, Spain

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SPAIN "LIFE
ON THE ROAD"
Reducing the environmental impact of the road infrastructures in Castilla
y León Project
for the LIFE-Environment Budgetline of the European Comission |
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EUROPEAN PARTNERS
CIVES MUNDI, Spain
AVENIA, Spain
Fundación Oxigeno, Spain
KATE -
Kontaktstelle für Umwelt & Entwicklung, Germany
SUMMARY
This project offers an innovative
vision in the design and application of measures that contribute to
reduce the environmental impact originated by traffic accident caused by
the raid of animals in Castilla y Leon’s road infrastructures,
mainly in three aspects: improvement of the road security,
conservation of the fauna and reduction of the significant quantity of
artificial and biological residues that are generated.
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OBJECTIVE
To contribute
to
mitigate conflicts between the species conservation and natural spaces
and development of the road infrastructures in countries of the European
Union.
RESULTS
A-The
environmental impact caused by the raid of animals in road
infrastructures is prevented and reduced with innovative measures.
B. Authorities and key actors are
working in the regulatory adaptation product of the results obtained.
C. Population is aware of this problem and results about the described
problem are spread.
D- Project
efficiently coordinated, managed, monitored and visualized.
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DURATION
Three years
BUDGET
2.399.573
Euros

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC "Vida
y Naturaleza" - Integrating an environmental dimension in the process of
sustainable local development of the high basin of the river Mao.
Project for the 21.02.05 Budgetline (Environment
Program in developing countries) of the European Comission |
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LOCAL
PARTNERS
Gerencia Global de Proyectos, GGP, Dominican
Republic
INCAP, Dominican Republic
SUMMARY
This 3 years duration project
seeks to establish a model of training,
production, commercialization and agro ecologic awareness focus on the environment preservation of the high basin of the river Mao and
it will benefit 345.000 people of the region with low income and
will generate a great environmental impact in the whole the area.
OBJECTIVE
To integrate the environmental dimension
in the process of sustainable local development in the northwest
region of the Dominican Republic and to establish a model of
training, production, commercialization and agro ecologic
awareness focus on the environment preservation of the high basin
of the river Mao.
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RESULTS
A. Coffee and organic fruit trees certificates and produced by
rural families in the area of the high basin of the river Mao.
B. Strategy of commercialization and a potential access to European
markets established and functioning, and increase of beneficiary rural families’
incomes.
C. Beneficiary rural families are properly qualified in agro
ecological production of coffee and fruit tress, with a focus on
food security .
D. A proposal of awareness and valuation of the environmental
services derived from products of the basin, is elaborated,
discussed and socialized by the beneficiaries and actors of the
project (aquifer resources, floors, flora and fauna).
E. An eco tourist program is established for the visitors’ awareness
on the importance of the basin and payment mechanisms for
environmental services are determinated (fixation of carbon, scenic
beauty, biodiversity, soil conservation and hydrologic services).
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F. The project is
efficiently managed, coordinated, monitored and evaluated.
DURATION
Three
years
BUDGET
659.185
Euros
EUROPEAN
PARTNERS
CIVES MUNDI, Spain
ASDE Alternatives for Sustainable
Development, Spain

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