WRITTEN QUESTION E-1356/96 by Jean-Yves Le Gallou (NI) to the Commission (3 June 1996)

Subject: Community subsidies for associations, NGOs and various bodies

For Item B7-5032 (Women in development), can the Commission provide a full list of the associations, NGOs or other bodies benefiting from Community subsidies, together with the exact amount of such subsidies during the last financial year for which the accounts have been closed?

Answer given by Mr Pinheiro on behalf of the Commission (17 June 1996)

The general objective of budget heading B7-5051 (1995 budget), 'Women in development', is to raise public awareness of the need to take due account of gender questions in development cooperation policies, programmes and projects, and provide technical support for the process. This objective is further defined in the communication from the Commission to the Council and Parliament on including such matters in development cooperation ((COM(95)423 final.)), and in the Council resolution of 20 December 1995 which stresses the need to take into account in all development work the differences between the respective roles and situations of women and men (mainstreaming) so as to ensure that women can participate and benefit on the same basis as men.

This objective was therefore given priority in terms of measures financed under the said budget heading in 1995. A number of other particularly important or strategic measures was also financed, particularly in the context of preparing for, and monitoring, the Beijing Conference.

The measures concerned were:

- WIDE (NGO): monitoring of the Beijing Conference - financing of important activities carried out by various non-governmental organisations in the ACP countries (70 projects). Amount: ECU 475 800;

- Cenafod (NGO; Republic of Guinea): support for the setting up of GIGED, an inter-project working party on gender questions and development which will provide technical support for - and monitor - the integration of these questions in Community development work in the Republic of Guinea. Amount: ECU 30 994.

- Ministry for Family Affairs and Promoting the Role of Women in Rwanda: support for a project to revise laws and provide legal aid for women and children in Rwanda. Amount: ECU 157 845.

- Centro de la Mujer Flora Tristan (NGO in Peru): Support to enable Latin American NGOs to participate in preparations for the Beijing Conference. Amount: ECU 146 227.

- Profound (NGO in the Netherlands): pilot project to strengthen the Union of Vietnamese Women. Amount: ECU 64 708.

- Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (Buenos Aires): Study on how to make those responsible for development policy more aware of the needs of young women. Amount: ECU 75 575.

- Instituto Brasiliero de Administracao Municipal: Series of publications on the place of gender questions in municipal policies. Amount: ECU 41 279.

- Prodemu/Escuela de la Mujer (Chile): Regional meetings between women's leaders. Amount: ECU 99 565.

- Ain o Unnayan Sanstha (Bangladesh): Raising awareness regarding women's rights and providing training in this connection for NGOs. Amount: ECU 135 750.

- Unifem: Support for regional monitoring of the Beijing Conference (Middle East). Amount: ECU 267 650.