In 2011, five Mauritian non-governmental and civil society organisations received the funding under the European Union (EU) thematic programme Non State Actors and Local Authorities in Development. These grants complement the funds available under the Decentralised Cooperation Programme (DCP) for which the Mauritian Government and the EU had signed the Financing Agreement in May 2011.
This new thematic programme “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development” was introduced already in 2007 to cover different components such as the support to development actions to be implemented by Non-State-Actors (NSAs), actions in the EU aiming at raising public awareness of development issues and promoting education for development, to mobilise greater support for activities against poverty and fairer relations between developed and developing countries as well as actions aiming at achieving more efficient cooperation, foster synergies and facilitate a structured dialogue in the area of development between civil society networks and local authorities associations from the EU and acceding countries, within their organisations and with Community institutions.
Association Pour les Enfants Inadaptes de L'Ile Maurice (APEIM)
The association proposes vocation training and rehabilitation services for young adults with moderate to severe intellectual disability. Through this action, APEIM attempts to empower intellectually disabled young men and women through capacity building and to promote their professional and social integration.
The association estimates that over 24 months, some 10 to 15 trained adults with intellectual disability will be placed in companies and earn their living, 150 men and women with moderate to severe intellectual disability will receive training in work skills, work habits and social skills and 500 to 600 parents and siblings will receive support and training and 16 teacher trainers are trained and therefore will be more confident in their work.
Website: http://www.apeim.org/
SOS Children's Village Mauritius
The project aims at developping a non-formal pre-vocational training (woodwork, painting, electricity etc.) facility for needy adolescents using transformed containers. The specificity of the training is that it takes on board the developmental needs and individual characteristics of the adolescents.
Diabetes Parents Support Group
The programme consist of providing the education and care for parents whose children are suffering from diabetes. More precisely, it will address the treated diabetic patients and aim at preventing type 2 diabetes among children.
DPSG will provide diabetes education and care to insulin treated patients based on structured and evaluated concepts and prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents through a targeted approach. the project will also bring diabetes care of international standards within the reach of the Mauritians and prevent the increase of Type 2 diabetes by 10% in one year.
Union Park Women Association
The project aims at providing an opportunity of employment and poverty alleviation to the beneficiaries through the production of fresh mushroom and mushroom fruiting bags. The project will involve sixty beneficiaries most of whom are members of Women Associations.
The unemployed women from low income household will be trained in the production of mushroom fruiting bags. The goal of the project is to alleviate poverty of the sixty women, though training and job opportunities and to help the beneficiaries to earn a living, learn new techniques, and produce fresh mushroom.
Prevention, Information et Fight against the AIDS (Prévention Information et Lutte contre le SIDA)
PILS is a Mauritian NGO created in July 1996 and one of the key players in the national response against HIV / AIDS. the overall objective of the project funded by the EU is mitigating the impact of HIV among Most at Risk Populations (MARPs) in Mauritius. More specifically, the project will seek to intensify targeted prevention programs towards commercial sex workers (CSW) as well as empowering people living with HIV. It will also aim at reinforcing multi-partner advocacy concerning MARPS. Some of the activities of the project include among others the setting up of a CSW Peer Educators Programme, the recruitment of a social worker and a nurse to propose a comprehensive care and support package, holding of group therapy sessions, training, recreational activities, sketches and income generating activities. It also foresees the improvement of a Positive Ambassadors program.
For more information, please visit PILS website: http://www.pils.mu/
More information about the EU support to the Non State Actors, please click here.
This new thematic programme “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development” was introduced already in 2007 to cover different components such as the support to development actions to be implemented by Non-State-Actors (NSAs), actions in the EU aiming at raising public awareness of development issues and promoting education for development, to mobilise greater support for activities against poverty and fairer relations between developed and developing countries as well as actions aiming at achieving more efficient cooperation, foster synergies and facilitate a structured dialogue in the area of development between civil society networks and local authorities associations from the EU and acceding countries, within their organisations and with Community institutions.
Association Pour les Enfants Inadaptes de L'Ile Maurice (APEIM)
The association proposes vocation training and rehabilitation services for young adults with moderate to severe intellectual disability. Through this action, APEIM attempts to empower intellectually disabled young men and women through capacity building and to promote their professional and social integration.
The association estimates that over 24 months, some 10 to 15 trained adults with intellectual disability will be placed in companies and earn their living, 150 men and women with moderate to severe intellectual disability will receive training in work skills, work habits and social skills and 500 to 600 parents and siblings will receive support and training and 16 teacher trainers are trained and therefore will be more confident in their work.
Website: http://www.apeim.org/
SOS Children's Village Mauritius
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| Mr Amedee Dabeecharun - General Manager SOS Children's Village |
Three-month long training will be combined with the provision of relevant services. The non-formal aspect of the training corresponds to work in small groups, responsiveness of the programme to the levels and ability of the participants, its duration, and a balanced combination of practice and theory.
The recruitment criteria will include the following risk factors: poverty, failure at school, lack of parental care and guidance and idleness etc. Social workers of the Family Strengthening Programme will provide relevant support services.
For more information, please visit the SOS Village's website : http://www.soscvmauritius.org/
The programme consist of providing the education and care for parents whose children are suffering from diabetes. More precisely, it will address the treated diabetic patients and aim at preventing type 2 diabetes among children.
DPSG will provide diabetes education and care to insulin treated patients based on structured and evaluated concepts and prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents through a targeted approach. the project will also bring diabetes care of international standards within the reach of the Mauritians and prevent the increase of Type 2 diabetes by 10% in one year.
Union Park Women Association
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Oyster Mushroom - delicious and healthy
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The unemployed women from low income household will be trained in the production of mushroom fruiting bags. The goal of the project is to alleviate poverty of the sixty women, though training and job opportunities and to help the beneficiaries to earn a living, learn new techniques, and produce fresh mushroom.
Prevention, Information et Fight against the AIDS (Prévention Information et Lutte contre le SIDA)
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| Recreational activities |
For more information, please visit PILS website: http://www.pils.mu/
More information about the EU support to the Non State Actors, please click here.
