Projects
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Grant to the Human Rights Office UNAMI in Iraqi Kurdistan to strengthen the education curriculum (2016)
Project: Strengthening human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan Beneficiary: Human Rights Office (OHCHR/UNAMI HRO) Amount: 114.017 euro Duration: 2016 Minister-president Bourgeois decided during his official visit to Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2016 to support the project "Human Rights Education in Schools". The goal of this project is to strengthen human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Grant for supporting the refugee camp Gawilan, Kurdish Iraq 2016
Project: Refugee camp Gawilan (Kurdish Iraq) Beneficiary: Rode Kruis Vlaanderen (Red Cross) Amount: 200.000 euro Duration: april 2016 In the refugee camp Gawilan in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, near Erbil, live about 6,500 refugees from Syria. Minister-president Bourgeois makes 200.000 euros available to the Red Cross for the direct support ("cash transfers") of 967 vulnerable families. The Flemish aid is part of a larger project of the International Red Cross, accounting for 4.2 million euros.
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Grant to GFMD for coordination of media and journalist organisations at in countries the borders of Europe, in the East and the MENA region (2016)
Project: coordination of local and international media and journalists' organizations in countries on Europe's external borders in the east and in the MENA region Beneficiary: Global Forum for Media Development Amount: 100.000 euro Duration: 2016 With the support received from the Government of Flanders in 2016, amounting to 100,000 euros, GFMD seeks to intensify its efforts in the coordination of local and international media and journalists' organizations in countries on Europe's external borders in the east and in the MENA region. Media freedom and present objective media are crucial