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The Municipal Council for Cooperation and Solidarity, which met this morning, has approved the project to provide grants to NGOs working in the municipality in Latin America and Caribbean, North Africa and West Africa, and contribute to sustainable human development populations of improving the living conditions of its people and meeting their basic needs.

Priority will be given to projects of cooperation which aims to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to the areas of health, education, human rights: social services and promoting social, productive, and insfraestructuras environment, governance, empowerment of women and the fight against hunger.

The amount of subsidies is 18,000 euros.

The City Council convenes biannually aid.

Interested NGOs will have a deadline for the filing of fifteen calendar days from the day following the publication of these regulatory standards in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia.

Murcia City Council is aware of the current crisis and continuing commitment to reflect the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the main international declarations on ODA, and in the context of geographical and sectoral strategies set out in the Annual Plan International Cooperation in 2012 (PACI) of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and the recommendations of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) calls these grants to carry out cooperation projects development, to help reduce poverty, inequality and the promotion of sustainable human development.

The Municipal Council for Cooperation and Solidarity is chaired by Councilwoman Equality Policy and Development Cooperation, Alicia Barquero, and consists of the members of the municipal political groups María del Carmen Pelegrin (PP), Sea Pink (PSOE), Esther Herguedas (IU) and Ruben Juan Serna (UPyD); addition, are also part of the Board of Education Councilwoman Maria Dolores Sanchez Alarcon District Councilman Golf Murcia, Manuel Duran, Cristina Rubio, Diego Calderón, María José Nicolás Eduardo Osuna, Antonio Alcaraz and NGOs Association Friends of the Saharawi people, Cooperation, Diagram Foundation, Manos Unidas, Masters Mundi and Asomurgua.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia