Granted projects 2015
Gabon-France training programme for midwife leaders of Central Africa
Since 2009 we have been assessing needs, feasible medical practices and avenues for training health professionals. African midwives are on the front line of reproductive health services. GCG has provided initial on-site training to hundreds of midwives. The proposed project aims to reinforce those trainings with experiences in a context of legal abortion with a high case load permitting more intensive training. We have been successful in engaging the directors of two abortion and family planning services in or near Paris, France, to provide 10-day internships for midwives from our GCG network. The goal is exposure to a normalized integrated abortion practice with surgical abortion, medical abortion, ultrasound, IUD insertion, post-abortion care with misoprostol and/or aspiration and counselling. This experience promises to enhance knowledge and skills, authority to head post-abortion and contraception services in Africa, and sustainable collaboration with an international network of professional abortion providers.
Applicant: Dr. Gail Pheterson (France)
Board member supporting the project: Dr. Annet Jansen van Hees (the Netherlands)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application
– Final report
– More
Granted projects 2014
Reconstruction of the service for children and women in the primary health care centre in Krupanj
Dom zdravlja Krupanj is a state primary health care centre which provides medical care for app. 18,000 inhabitants. Krupanj is small town located in western Serbia, near the Drina river and boarder with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was badly damaged during the recent floods in Serbia. Connections between Krupanj and surrounding larger cities are frequently difficult due to bad roads and hilly terrain. Primary health care centre plays an important role in providing health care to all inhabitants, including children and women, as a most vulnerable ones. Health care service for women and children was flooded, so it needs reconstruction. Due to severe damages of the Service for health care of children and women in the Primary health care centre in Krupanj, the most important is to restore the area and enable for the work with patients. Therefore, the main objective of this project would be to conduct construction works, painting, purchasing new furniture and repairing old. With the money, eventually generously donated by the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health, it would be possible to put the service for children’s and women’s health care in function, again. The pictures before and after reconstruction would be provided, and if needed, detailed financial report.
Applicant: Prof. Aleksandra Kapamadzija (Serbia)
Board member supporting the project: Prof. Aleksandra Kapamadzija (Serbia)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application
– Final report
Help for flood stricken reproductive health facilities in Bosnia
In May of this year, great floods affected large parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Infrastructure in many towns is completely destroyed. One of the most affected areas is town of Maglay and its Primary health care centre (including Department for women’s health). Institution that take care of several thousand women is badly damaged and any kind of help is welcomed.
Applicant: Dr. Edin Cengic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Board member supporting the project: Dr. Edin Cengic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application
– Interim report
Granted project 2010
JAMMU II, better health for little girls
The proposed project aims at supporting the targeted local communities in the Kolda Region, realising key objectives such as information, awareness raising and education to end female genital mutilations and reduce poverty, among women especially.
The proposal should consolidate the fight against FGM and alleviate rural poverty by:
– courses to improve womens literacy, awareness, information and prevention in the framework of the fight against FGM and HIV/SIDA, and the respect of human rights. Training could be offered to improve womens access to information about the local community, to strengthen their capacity to further their living conditions.
– economic activities to improve food security and the income position of women and young people, in order to facilitate their participation in awareness raising and training.
– improvement of their living conditions to allow changes of conductFGM and to transform participants into agents of change.
NGO or Charity responsible for the project : GAMS-Belgique asbl – Groupe pour l’Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles féminines (Group for the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation, non-profit organisation)
Applicant : Mrs Khadidiatou Diallo (Belgium)
Board member supporting the project : Dr Rob Beerthuizen (The Netherlands)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application
– Interim report
– final report
Granted projects 2008/2009
Testing strategies for male involvement in improving the uptake of family planning services in peri-urban settings in Uganda
This proposal seeks to implement two components in peri-urban areas of Kampala city in the Republic of Uganda. The first component focuses on testing the effectiveness of various strategies for promoting male involvement in improving the uptake of family planning services. The second component explores new approaches to involving men in emergency contraception activities.
NGO or Charity responsible for the project : Child Care & Rescue Programme (CC&RP)
Applicant : Mr Wilson Jaga (Uganda)
Board member supporting the project : Prof.em. Jean-Jacques Amy (Belgium)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application.
– Interim report 1 Dec 2009.
– Final report 28 Oct 2010.
Promoting self-care and a healthy and responsible sexuality among low-income Chilean young people.
The project is aimed at improving the ability of low-income, young people aged 14-24 years to make informed choices about sexuality and sexual behavior by providing information they can understand and assimilate to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unwanted STIs, including HIV. To have an impact, it is necessary to implement innovative initiatives to inform and educate. The project involves “Tables Traveling Information (TTIs)” and “Information Communication Technologies’ (ICTs) “implementation, as explained in the next two paragraphs.
The TTIs are public information booths, kiosks or stands where young, trained, peer sex educators provide face to face information to young, poor people about sexual and reproductive health and rights, STI and HIV/AIDS and contraceptives use. A major focus is on the correct and consistent use of male condoms as a method of dual protection. The TTIs (information booths) will be set up in several youth public spaces in three low-income districts in Santiago of Chile where the teenage pregnancy rates are the highest.
The ICTs include the use of internet tools as Facebook, YouTube, blog, webpage and e-mail to providing interactive information about sex education.
All the messages to be conveyed will be prepared and tested among young people living in poor districts of Santiago in order to have appropriate and useful contents and materials for target young people. In addition, this process will be supported by expert health professionals of Prosalud.
It is impossible to know what behavioural changes the program will effectuate given the highly personal nature of sexuality. As the project is a response to the absence of reliable sources of information, the service should establish it as a bona fide information source.
NGO or Charity responsible for the project : PROSALUD INTER AMERICANA FOUNDATION, INC (PSIA)
Applicant : Ms Veronica Schiappacasse (Chile)
Board member supporting the project : Dr. Irving Sivin (USA)
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Monitoring :
– Full version of the initial application.
– Interim report 16 Dec 2009.
– Final report 30 June 2010
Granted project 2007
Serbian project of the ‘Save the Children’ organisation (keywords: children, roma community, education).
NGO or Charity responsible for the project : Save the Children
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Recognized for their commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, their work takes us into the heart of communities, where they help children and families help themselves.
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro
Granted project 2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina project of the ‘Save the Children’ organisation.
NGO or Charity responsible for the project : Save the Children
Allocated amount : 5.000 euro