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Portugal’s Instituto Camões to co-finance 35 projects with €1.87M; 9 are from Mozambique
8:34 CAT | 07 Oct 2019
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Portugal’s Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua is to finance 35 projects in nine countries, with an investment of €1.87 million over four years, the organisation said on Friday.
The 35 projects were chosen from a total of 54 submitted and will allow the development of multi-year projects of 15 NGOs for development, a note from the institution said.
The selected projects cover sectors such as institutional capacity building (11 projects), rural development and the sea (nine), social protection, social inclusion and employment (six), education and science (five), health (three) and environment, green growth and energy (one).
The selected initiatives are distributed among Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe (nine projects each), Guinea-Bissau (eight), Cabo Verde (three), Angola (two) and East Timor, Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador (one project for each country).
Among the distinguished NGOs are the Association for Cooperation between Peoples (ACEP), International Medical Assistance (AMI), the Mértola Heritage Defence Association (ADPM), Oikos – Cooperation and Development, the Faith and Cooperation Foundation (FEC) and Girl Move.
The co-funding line for development cooperation projects of Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua was created in 2001 and is based on the development policies of partner countries, as well as the contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations 2030 Agenda).
Source: Lus
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