Net 10 Bulletin
Information about poverty combat and the social inclusion promotion
7/2005
Nets Coordination
November
Net 10 sends 7 proposals to the
02-05: II Annual
Convocatory of October, 2005
Meeting of Net 13 –
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City and Information
Society in Bremen
(Germany)
02-05: Meeting with
Nets coordinators
Programs URB-AL
Net 10 closes three years of actuation
and prepare a CD-ROM with a summary
of the jobs made during this period
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because of the
enclosing of Phase II
of the Program
08-12: V Conference
of OIDP, in San
Sebastian (Spain)
European Commission Consultant make a
technical visit to São Paulo
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31/10 - 04: VII
Meeting of SLUAT,
in Lima (Peru)
INFORM US THE ACTIVITIES OF YOUR
PROJECTS IN ORDER TO LET US DIVULGE
TO THE OTHER PARTNERS!
Net 10 sends 7 proposals of common projects
to the Convocatory of October 2005
To the last convocatory on October, 2005, Net 10 – Fight
Against Urban Poverty sent to Brussels 7 proposals of
common projects - 6 of type A and one type B. From the
seven proposals, four have European cities as
coordinators (Spain and Italy, two each) and three have
Latin American cities as coordinators (Brazil, two and
Colombia, one).
The focalized themes were : Intersectorial Policies and
integral actions in vulnerable areas (Project type B, from
the city of Jacareí); Vulnerability and social risk of children
and adolescence (São Bernardo do Campo and L´Escala);
Social Inclusion of drugs addicted (Sant Boi de Llobregat);
Decentralized Cooperation and fight against poverty
(Arezzo, Bari) and Employment and Wage Generation in
situation of high social exclusion through companies
incubation (Medellin).
The proposals:
1.
“Concertacion local y Cooperacion
internacional, as instruments of fight against Urban
Poverty: Streighten of Impact of Policies and
Actions in the Fight against Urban Poverty and the
social cohesion through the exchange of Good
Practices of Local Concertacion Local in the
Management of the International Cooperation”
Coordinated city: Province of Arezzo
Partner cities: Comune di Ariccia (Italy), Barcelona
(Spain), Colonia (Uruguay), Cantón Pastaza (Ecuador),
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San Miguel de Los Bancos (Ecuador), São Carlos (Brazil),
Santiago de Surco (Peru), Vila Maria del Triunfo (Peru),
Arica (Chile), Tres de febrero (Argentina), Ucodep Ong
Pais (Italy), Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina)
2.
“ARCO IRIS among Europe and Latin America”
Coordinated city: Bari (Italy)
Partner Cities: Palpala (Argentina), Santa Maria (Brazil),
Feira de Santana (Brazil), Málaga (Spain)
3.
“Project Action: Implementation of the Guide
for Citizenship Management – methodology of eleven
territories of social vulnerability”
Coordinated city: Jacareí (Brazil)
Partner cities: Campo Grande (Brazil), Diadema (Brazil),
Santa Maria (Brazil), Goiânia (Brazil), Ate (Peru), Quilmes
(Argentina), Girona e Leganez (Spain), Vila Real de Santo
Antonio (Portugal)
4.
“La prevención de la exclusión social en
jóvenes y adolescentes en contextos urbanos
mediante la promoción de la salud y de los factores
resilientes”
Coordinated city: l’Escala (Spain)
Partner cities: Montevideo (Uruguay), Salto (Uruguay),
Santo André (Brazil), Medellín (Colombia), l’Alt Empordá
(Spain), Triestina (Italy), Instituto de Educación Popular
“El Abrojo” (Uruguay)
5. “Incubadoras de Empresas como herramienta
para el combate de la exclusión social”
Coordinated city: Medellin (Colombia)
Partner cities: Arica (Chile), Brussel s (Belgium),
Colonia (Uruguay), San Isidro (Argentina),
Tacuarembó (Uruguay), Tulúa (Colombia), Vila
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Real de San Antonio (Portugal), Abruzzo Sviluppo
(Italy)
6. “Mejor a de las políticas locales de
integr ación de personas drogodependientes y
alcohólicas como estrategia para la inclusión
social significativa de colectivos afectados
por procesos de marginación y la exclus ión
social”
Coordinated city: Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain
Partner cities: Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal), Bluefields
(Nicaragua), Manizales (Colombia), Triestina / Trieste
(Italy), Junín (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay),
Granada/Instituto Municipal de Empleo y Formación (IMFE)
(Spain), Arica (Chile), São Paulo (Brazil), Morón
(Argentina), Instituto de Educación Popular El Abrojo
(Uruguay)
7. “Poor people negligented by the poverty:
situations of shelter and unsheltered in
childhood and adolescence”
Coordinated city: São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil)
Partner cities: Milan (Italy), Nantes (France), Cochabamba
(Bolivia), Soriano (Uruguay), AiBi – Associazione Amici dei
Bambini (Brazil)
Net 10 prepares the Final Document, in a CDROM, including the summary of the jobs made
during this period
After these three years of existence of Net URB-AL 10 –
Fight against Urban Poverty, on October, 2005, the
coordination team prepares a series of technical and
financial reports to European Commission mentioning the
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jobs executed and doing a general balance of activities
done. All the documents, including the website, that
brings information about the whole life of Net 10, are
united in this CD-ROM.
The Final Document was developed by the International
Negotiations Center of São Paulo University (CAENI/USP).
The responsible for this was the Phd Drª Janina Onuki.
This material will be sent to all partners on their official
address still on 2005.
Among the subjects stood out in these documents, in
which it is included the presentation letters of São Paulo
Mayor, José Serra, and the Municipal Secretariat of
International Relations, Helena Maria Gasparian, there are
topics as international roll of the cities in the twentieth
century, globalization and Combat Urban Poverty – the
big challenge of cities, the URB-AL Program as an
innovative proposal of international cooperation, São
Paulo and the Net 10, the experience on the combat of
Urban Poverty and new challenges.
History
Since 2003, it was approved 17 common projects type A
proposals and a common project type B. On the total,
there were 4,6 millions of Euros subvencioned by the
European Commission. During this period, there were
three annual conferences, four regional meetings, lots of
bulletins, phone calls and exchange of electronic
messages, that strengthened and amplified the Net 10
actuation, which today counts on with 378 partners, 18 of
them from Latin America Countries and 10 of them from
European Union.
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Net 10 finishes activities contractually foreseen
and study the possibility for continuity of the
jobs on 2006
Finalizing the activities defined in the subvention contract
with European Commission, Net 10 counts on with 57
proposals of common projects (Type A and Type B) sent
to the six Convocatories made by the URB-AL Program,
since 2003 until October,2005. They were, in the middle,
9,5 projects each Convocatory. On this total, 18 projects
were approved, representing a total budget invested on
this thematic area of € 6,8 millions.
Bulletins and website of Net 10 are available to
the cities
With the Convocatory of October, 2005, Net 10 – Fight
Against Urban Poverty is closing an important part on its
officials activities. Even though the partners have the
possibility to send projects to the convocatory of
April,2006, specifically open to projects type B, the
proposals should be send directly to Brussels by the
partner cities, without the mediation of Net coordination.
All partners that intend to compete in the convocatory of
next year, the informative bulletins and the website of Net
10 will continuing offer official information about the URBAL Program. To a second moment, they are studying
other ways of continuity in 2006, in a way to keep active
the coordination cell giving assistance to the cities that
need more information.
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European Commission Consultant makes a
technical visitor in São Paulo
On October, 10th thru 14th, the European Commission
Consultant, Ricardo Vergara, was in São Paulo to make an
evaluation called Mid-term review URB-AL II, oriented
to the budget 2007-2013 of European Commission
programs of decentralized cooperation among cities. He
was hosted by the coordination of Net 10 – Fight Against
Urban Poverty, based on Municipal International Relations
Secretariat of São Paulo.
During this period, Ricardo Vergara met the coordinators
of projects coordinated by São Paulo and others that has
only the city of São Paulo as partner. Among the projects
that are coordinated by SP, the type B, “Local centers of
citizenship of women as equality defenders”, of
Participation and Partners Secretariat/Women
Coordination (Net5), and the type A, “The access to the
soil and the social habitation in big cities of metropolitan
area of Latin America and Europe”, of Habitation
Secretariat/ Resoil (Net 7).
Other two projects that counts on the participation of São
Paulo as a partner city also were in the agenda of the
consultant: the project B, “Locals observatories of
participative democracy”, coordinated by Diputación de
Barcelona (Spain), and the project A, “Practicar”,
coordinated by the city of Rome (Italy).
Preparatory Meeting to the Bilbao Vault took place
in São Paulo
Coordinator in the Latin America and Caribe Nucleus of
Net IT4ALL, the São Paulo City Hall, promoted, on
September, the Regional Meeting Preparatory to the II
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World Cupola of Cities and Local Authorities about the
Information Society, that will happen in Bilbao on
November, 9 thru 11.
There were presented government authorities, experts in
TICs – Information Technology and Communication,
representants of public entities, private companies,
international organisms, non-governmental organizations,
besides personalities united to the construction of
Information Society.
What it is
The Net IT4ALL was created to give a voice to locals
authorities to strengthen the participation of this actors in
the construction of new era of information and knowledge.
The II Cupola of Bilbao, that will has as a theme “The
locals authorities building a Information Society to all”,
will join around 2 thousand political and city
representants from the whole world, besides the
companies and other organizations that collaborated with
the development of Information Society.
The meeting will offer 15 Thematics Workshops, with eAdministration and e-democracy, e- Education and eFormation, e- Inclusion, e-Health, e-Business (eEconomy), Culture and identity of Digital Era, Sustainable
Development and the Information Society, Infrastructure
to Information Society, Free Software, Security and risk
management in Internet, Financing of Digital Solidarity
among others.
On Time
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V OIDP Conference
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The inscriptions to the V Conference of International
Observatory of Participative Democracy (OIDP), that this
year debates the theme “Participative Democracy:
learning to participate and building citizenship”, are
already open. The meeting will happen on November, 8th
thru 12th, in Donostia – San Sebastian (Spain). Even the
conference program and the work groups, even the
inscription form are already available in the website
www.bcn.es/oidp/ .
Starting the central theme, the debate will be divided into
three axles: citizenship participation and social
transformation; Identity and democratic citizenship;
Participation and communication.
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VII Latin-American Meeting of Environment
Units of Transport
Discussing the theme “The ways of social management in
the transport sector”, the meeting, organized by the
Latin-American Society of Environment Units of Transport
(SLUAT), happen between October,31 thru November, 4,
on Lima (Peru). The conference will allow meet several
experiences about the environmental management and
social projects of urban and rural transport of countries of
Latin America and Caribe. Other information:
www.acgperu.com/sluat
We received
The Net 10 coordination – Fight Against Urban Poverty – received
- and thanks – the informs of other Nets and other entities, that
repassed to partner cities:
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URBAL10Mayores
The monthly bulletin #14 of Urbal10Mayores, under
responsibility of Consell Comarcal de l´Alt Empordà,
brings, among other subjects, a summary about the real
situation of projects, as the pilot application of Didactics
Units, the model of identification of good practices,
professional profiles guide and strategic municipal plan.
Other information: www.urbal10mayores.org
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Funpadem News nº 143, 141 e 140
In the bulletin edition of Fundación para la Paz y la
Democracia (FUNPADEM) nº 143 contains information
about the Project Cumple y Gana: Strengthening the labor
rights that aim to reduce the accomplishment of labors
rights and obligations originated from the absence of
knowledge of social actors and impulse the model of selfevaluation to entrepreneurs and workers. The initiative
was developed in Guatemala, Honduras, EL Salvador,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominic Republic. The
informative #141 talks about the creation of an Institute
for Local Development of Central America (IDELCA). The
Institute aims to incentive democracy, contribute to the
political integration and integral development of Center
American area. The edition # 140 informs that the Project
Cumple and Gana: Stregthen of rights, as a way to
improve mediation/conciliation in the Ministery of Labor of
Honduras, modernized the audience rooms where take
place the conciliation of individual judicial conflicts,
besides donate an equipped vehicle that will make
inspections in far places and promote the labors rights
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through diffusion. Contact:
relacionesexternas@funpadem.com or www.funpadem.org
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Newsletter IT4ALL
The standing out information of bulletin IT4ALL – Net of
local authorities to Information Society is the II World
Meeting of Cities and Local Authorities about the
Information Society, that happens among November,
9th thru 11th, 2005, in Bilbao. According to the
organizers, it will probably participate of the meeting
around 2 thousand representants of cities and areas from
the whole world, beside companies and organizations that
collaborate with the development of Information Society.
With the theme “The local authorities building a
Information Society to all”, the event aim a global vision
of cities and areas about this subject, fundamental to
economic development and social welfare. Other
information: http://www.it4all-bilbao.org/
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Bulletin of Peruan Institute of Criminalistics and
Investigation (IPCP)
The informative # 7 brings in its editorial “The progress
and the interchange of experiences”, besides the articles
“La cooperación y el desarrollo local”, of Carlos Ramírez
Reyna; “Seguridad y desarrollo”, of César Benavides
Cavero; “La marca y su contexto”, of Rodrigo Fino; “El
síndrome de la corrupción”, of Manuel Espinoza Ramos;
“Apreciar la vida”, of Luis Baba Nakao; and “Todo cuento
es un cuento Chino”, of Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
Information: ipcp@terra.com.pe
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Bulletin of University Foundation of Rights,
Administrations and Politics (FUNDAp)
The bulletin informs that FUNDAp was on the XV
International Fair of Books of Monterrey, on October in
Mexico. Information : fundap@prodigy.net.mx or
www.fundap.com.mx
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SLUAT
The bulletin informs that FUNDAp was present in XV Book
International Fair of Monterrey, that took place on
October, Mexico. Information: fundap@prodigy.net.mx or
www.fundap.com.mx
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Observatory of Decentralized Cooperation
The first bulletin of the Observatory of Decentralized
Cooperation of European Union – Latin America brings
information about the activities of the Observatory, its
services and products, examples of projects developed in
Latin America and in the European Union, the II Ibero
Americana Vault to decentralization of State and local
development, among other subjects. More information:
observatoriomontevideo@prodo.imm.gub.uy
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