Projects

Project: Agriculture Sector Wide Approach (ASWAp) in Malawi Beneficiary: Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) supervised by the World Bank Duration: 2017 - 2022 Budget: 5.500,000 euros In its policy paper, Flanders explicitly opts for an effective agricultural policy and the right to food security in Malawi.

Project: extension project fast TB detection to COVID-19 detection in Mozambique Beneficiary: APOPO asbl Amount: 599,970 euros Duration: 15 months (from October 2020) APOPO has been a partner of the Flemish development cooperation in Mozambique since 2009. The organization has been working on TB detection in Maputo since 2013 and has an extensive network of local partners, a good infrastructure and experienced staff. An important problem in the fight against Covid-19 is the very limited testing capacity in the African region. More laboratory capacity is also urgently needed.

Project: protection staff of AfriCoVER project  Beneficiary: Institutio Nacional de Saude Mozambique (INS)  Amount: 87,000 euros  Duration: 12 months The AfriCoVER project aims to better understand the transmissibility and epidemic spread of COVID-19 in Mozambique and Sub-Saharan Africa. This way, medical and preventive resources and strategies can be used more effectively and efficiently. For Sub-Saharan Africa, it is important that the role of other infectious diseases such as TB and AIDS, of specific social interactions and of asymptomatic infections is also examined.

Project: provision of legal assistance and updating and distributing of citizens' rights manual Organisation: Public Legal Aid - Belarus Budget: EUR 52,920 Duration: 3 years The Belarusian Human Rights Centre 'Public Legal Aid' provides free legal assistance to citizens, informs citizens about their rights and monitors the observance of human rights by the authorities.  With this grant, the centre will update and further distribute the manual drawn up in 2018 to provide citizens with accessible information on their rights and how to defend them.  The resources will also be used to suppo

Beneficiary: Rode Kruis Vlaanderen Amount: 200.000 euros Duration: 12 months (august 2020 - 2021) On 4 August 2020, an explosion occurred in the port area of Beirut, Lebanon. This sent a shock wave through the city, causing more than 200 deaths and 6,000 injured. 300,000 people from Beirut became homeless as a result of the explosion. The Red Cross Lebanon (RCL) launched an emergency appeal for USD 19 million.

Project: Building Markets for Prosperity (BM4P) Beneficiary: Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) Duration: 2020 - 2024 Amount: 1.500.000 euros ACE operates as a trade facilitator bringing together sellers, warehouse managers, banks and buyers to create structure and order in the agricultural market, which is predominantly in the informal economy. A context in which small-scale farmers are easily exploited. The project builds on the previous project "Strengthening Farmer Organisations and Rural Structured Trade Mechanisms in Malawi" carried out by ACE and WFP (2014).

Project: Improving the functioning of agricultural extension services, agricultural markets and agricultural cooperatives in Malawi Beneficiary:  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Duration: 2020 - 2023 Amount: 999.841 euro The project follows on from IFPRI's previous project financed by Flanders 'Assessing and enhancing the capacity, performance and impact of the pluralistic agricultural extension system in Malawi' (2016).

Project: Scaling up Radio and ICTs in Enhancing Extension Delivery II (SRIEED II) Beneficiary: Farm Radio Trust Amount: 1.695.866 euros Duration: 2020 - 2025 The objective of the project is to increase access and coverage of agricultural extension services for small-scale farmers through the use of radio and other communication tools.

Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 99,951 Duration: 2020 - 2022 Studies show that more than half of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by large-scale industrial projects, with adverse effects on the ecosystem.

Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 404,000 Duration: 2020 - 2022 This project supports the start-up of Unesco's climate programme for natural World Heritage, which is led by the Flemish Fanny Douvere. The ultimate goal of this project is to strengthen the resilience of natural World Heritage sites in developing countries - and in Africa in particular - by building capacities for climate adaptation and developing a sustainable financing

Beneficiary: Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Amount: 600.000 euro (annual funding)  Duration: 2020 The Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations provides support to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters in a timely and reliable way. By increasing the advanced financing, CERF can react swift and flexible when humanitarian disasters occur.  Since 2011, Flanders has been annually contributing to the emergency fund.

Beneficiary: Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Amount: 600.000 euro (annual funding) Duration: 2019 The Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations provides support to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters in a timely and reliable way. By increasing the advanced financing, CERF can react swift and flexible when humanitarian disasters occur.  Since 2011, Flanders has been annually contributing to the emergency fund.

Beneficiary: Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Amount: 600.000 euro (annual funding) Duration: 2018 The Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations provides support to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters in a timely and reliable way. By increasing the advanced financing, CERF can react swift and flexible when humanitarian disasters occur.  Since 2011, Flanders has been annually contributing to the emergency fund.

Project: the joint project "Slovak Soil in Flemish Art": Tracing trade and technology of two leading regions in the Renaissance   Beneficiary: the University of Antwerp Budget: 24.000 euros Periode: 2018 The purpose of the project is to find evidence of the technological connection between the Renaissance painters of the Antwerp School and Slovak’s leading mining industry.  At the beginning of the 16th century, the mining industry in Slovakia started producing a series of innovative copper pigments that instantly found its way to Flemish artists, thanks to Antwerp’s role as central Europe

Project: pre-production and presentation of the play 'The Island of Future Dreams/Eiland van Drome Wat Nog Kom'. Beneficiary: Vrystaat Budget: 37.000 euros Period: 2019 The Island of Future Dreams' is a joint project of the Vrystaat Arts Festival (Vryfees, South Africa), Bram De Goeij (Netherlands) and Stef De Paepe van De Maan (Flanders). This collaboration is the result of encounters during their participation in the Assistej-festival in Cape Town (May 2017). The Island of Future Dreams' is a play made for, and based on conversations with, South African young adults.

Project: digital disclosure of 'the Seasons', series of paintings of Pieter Bruegel  the Elder Beneficiary : Kunsthistorisch Museum Vienna Amount: 55 000 euro Duration: January 2020 - October 2021 Based on the succesful retrospective exhibition 'Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Once in a lifetime' in 2019, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (KHM) has, with financial support from the Flemish government, developed an instrument to digitally collect and analyze Bruegel's works and make it accessible to a wide audience (insidebruegel.net). The huge success of this exhibition and website led to the

Project: Exhibition  "Kleureyck. Van Eycks kleuren in design"  Beneficiary: Design Museum Gent and Lille 3000 Amount: 100 000 euro duration: March 2020 - January 2021 The exhibition "Kleureyck.

Project: Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism for Accelerated Impact Fund (FMM) Beneficiary: FAO  Amount: 3 000 000 euro Duration: 2020 By anticipating to innovative ideas and pilot projects in the countries where FAO works, the fund can be a catalyst for sustainable development. The FMM makes it possible for the FAO to deploy resources where they are most needed and have the greatest impact.

Project: South-Africa - Flanders Climate Change Adaptation Research and Training partnership: building the adaptation knowledge and capacity base Beneficiary: African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI)  Amount: 2 198 505 euro Duration: 2020 Strengthening the capacity of South African society in the field of climate adaptation by training young people, especially from disadvantaged groups, at university level. The project provides 19 research grants for Masters students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

Project: Strengthening the health system in Mozambique Beneficiary: Population Services Internatonal Amount: 1 500 000 euro Duration: 2020 - 2023 Strengthen the capacity and motivation for delivering Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services to adolescents. Through training, data analysis to support decisions in health posts and by increasing the demand for SRHR services through a communication campaign.