Thematic Instruments and Programmes I

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• Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
• European Instrument for Democracy and Human
  Rights
  
• (EIDHR), including EU EOMs
• Migration Asylum (MA)
• Instrument for Stability (IfS)
• Manila 15-17
  October 2008

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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
I Introduction overview of the thematic
instruments and programmes II European Instru
ment for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
III Election Observation (EOMs) IV Migrati
on Asylum (MA) V Instrument for Stability
(IfS) VI More Information
INDEX
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Instrument for Stability
Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
INTRODUCTION
Geographical instrument with a specific legal
basis
Horizontal instrument with a specific legal basis
Thematic programme included in DCI legal basis
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
EIDHR - Identity Card

• Legal base EIDHR Regulation (EC) 1889/2006
• Size (without Election Observation)
• approx. 430 million for 2007-2010, 115
  million in 2008
  
• Election Observation
• approx. 130 million for 2007-2010, 25
  million in 2008
  
• Characteristics Financing instrument for the
  promotion of democracy and human rights
  through the support to civil society and to
  victims of human rights abuses and through
  existing international frameworks election
  observation
• Coverage Worldwide

EIDHR
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
Key Concepts
EIDHR
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Whats on

• Some figures regarding 2007
• 47 countries with allocations for CBSS - 31.8
  million
  
• (11 calls for Asia , including Central
  Asia)
  
• 5 calls for proposals with worldwide scope
  launched by HQ
  
• approx. 53.5 million for calls for proposals
  launched by HQ
  
• 9.2 million for targeted projects with Intl
  Organisations
  
• 1.9 million for an operating grant HR masters
  EIUC
  
• 9 to Intl Organisations and 91 to CSOs
• Whats new
• - Re-granting
• - Informal partners
• - Giving space to the initiative of civil
  society
  
• - Support to Human Rights Defenders in
  urgent situations
  
• - Special attention to confidentiality and
  security
  

EIDHR
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
2008

• 72 countries with allocations for CBSS - 45.6
  millionLocal calls for proposals
  
• 13 countries from Asia, including Central Asia
• 4 calls for proposals with worldwide scope
  launched by HQ 49 million(1) HR and
  fundamental freedoms (permanently open)(2)
  Transnational and regional activities (May 2008 -
  closed)
• (3) EU Guidelines on Death Penalty (May 2008 -
  closed) and on (4) Children (to be published end
  November 2008)
  
• 7 Targeted Projects - 10.48 million 6
  agreements joint management with Intl Org. -
  8.58 million1 operating grant EIUC - 1.9
  million
• (again approx. 9 to Intl Organisations and 91
  to CSOs)
  

EIDHR
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
2007-2008 CBSS Asia including Central Asia
EIDHR
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
Calls for Proposals launched by EuropeAid
Headquarters 2007 / 2008
EIDHR
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
EU Elections Observation Missions

• Main objectives
• Provide the EU with detailed assesment of
  electoral process conformity with International
  Standards
  
• By its very presence, give signals to
  stakeholders
  
• Contribute to governance, provide for legitimacy
  and confidence in elected national institutions
  
• Provide proposals for improvement of electoral
  processes
  
• Outputs
• Preliminary Statement by Chief Observer
• Detailed report on electoral process and
  recommendations
  

EOMs
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
How does it work? Steps prior to e-day
EOMs
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
How does it work? Steps after the e-day
EOMs
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
Structure of an EU EOM -Example Sri Lanka 2005-
EOMs
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS

• Indicative Calendar for 2008
• Pakistan (18 Feb.)
• Bhutan (24 March)
• Nepal (10 April)
• Cambodia (27 July)
• Angola (6 September)
• Rwanda (15 September)
• Ecuador (28 September)
• Maldives (10 October)
• Zambia (30 October)
• Guinee Bissau (16 November)
• Ghana (6 December)
• Côte dIvoire (15 December?)
• Bangladesh (18 December)

EOMs
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS

• Migration and Asylum
• International situation
• Rise in absolute number of migrants
• 191 Million worldwide (1)
• Diversification of origin and destinations
• Feminisation, trafficking, forced migration
  (2)
  
• Increasing Migratory Pressure
• Increase by 33 Million from 1990 to 2005 in
  developed countries and by 3 million in
  developing countries (3)

MA
(1) Population Division, Department of Economic
and Social Affairs of the United Nations,
Conference on International Migration and
Development, 2006. (2) International Organisation
for Migration, United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs. (3) Population Divis
ion, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of
the United Nations, Conference on
International Migration and Development, 2006.
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
Identity Card

• Son of AENEAS (2004-2006), and preparatory
  actions
  
• 205 million for 2007-2010, 85.000.000
  million in 2007-2008
  
• Legal Base
• Article 16 (EC)No 1905/2006, DCI,
• Article 2 (EC)No 1638/2006, ENPI.
• Objective to support third countries in their
  efforts to better manage migratory flows.
  
• -Promoting the development dimension of
  migration
  
• Fighting illegal migration, readmission
• Fighting trafficking in human beings,
• -Promoting good management of labour migration,
  protection against exploitation/exclusion
  
• -Promoting asylum and international protection.
• Support to cooperation between countries of
  origin,transit and destination
  

MA
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS

• Key concepts
• Migratory routes and migratory flows
• Southern migratory route (South to North)
  Subsaharan Africa, southern Mediterranean
  
• Eastern migratory route (East to West) Russia,
  Ukraine, Moldovia, Belarus, Southern Caucasus,
  Central Asia
  
• Outside these routes
• Flows from and through the Middle East and Gulf
  Countries
  
• Flows from Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and the
  Pacific
  
• Flows from Latin America and the Caribbean
• (Eligibility of countries covered by ENPI, DCI
  and EDF)

MA
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
Implementation of action in 2007

• - 42 projets selected out of 290 proposals
  through the Call for Proposals 2 targeted
  projects awarded.
  
• - 100 on-going projects from AENEAS
• Lessons learned
• Need to further improve the management of the
  Call for Proposals to facilitate access and widen
  to reach new potential beneficiaries
  
• Follow-up of results, impact of previous
  activities or funded by other instruments
  (support from the EC Delegations essential)
  
• Synergies to be sought, also through so called
  targeted projects
  
• Importance to contribute to joint efforts of all
  partners national authorities, associations and
  local CSO, international organisations and EU
  Member States

MA
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I)
EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
AENEAS Projects 2004 - 2006
2005 (contracted) EC Funding
Labour Migration 1.995.355
2005/103-503 Reintegration of returnees Sri Lan
ka 1.873.464 2005/103-522 Legal Migration A
sia-Europe 848.583 2005/103-523 Migr
eMacao Trafficking
500.904 2005/103/671 Remittances Africa Asia,
East. Europe 4.000.000 2005/114-838
MA
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Thematic Instruments and Programmes (I) EIDHR
EOMs, MA, IfS
AENEAS Projects 2004 - 2006
2006 EC Funding Migration Management China
2006/120-244 1.999.639 2007 Remittances Phili
ppines 2007/130-599 849.591
Capacity building Pakistan 2007/143-930
1.110.052 Trafficking Cambodia 2007/130-512 1
.999.998 Migration and development Philippines 2
007/130-548 580.230 Trafficking Myanmar 2007/130
-550 538.419 Trafficking Indonesia 2007/130-579
978.424
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
What for 2008 and how to implement?
Restricted Calls for Proposals 20072008
61.955.438
The Southern migratory flows 27.000.000
The Eastern migratory flows 21.000.000
Middle East and Gulf Countries 2.000.000
Asia 6.000.000
Latin America and Caribbean 6.000.000
54 Projects selected for Contracting 2008
MA
2-phase call for proposals 1/Concept notes 2/
Full Proposals
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
What for 2008 and how to implement?
Projects in joint management 2008
15.000.000
Illegal Migration (ICMPD)
3.000.000 Trafficking/smuggling (UNODC) 3.
000.000 Protection (UNHCR)
3.000.000 Mob Partnership Moldova
3.000.000 Mobility Part Cape Verde
1.000.000 Illegal Migration Libya
2.000.000
MA
2-phase call for proposals 1/Concept notes 2/
Full Proposals
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS
The Instrument for Stability (IfS)Long-Term
Component (Trans-regional Threats)
IfS
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EIDHR EOMs, MA, IfS

Instrument for Stability Transregional Threats
Identity Card

• Origin Topics previously uncovered
  (counterterrorism, fighting against trafficking,
  organised crime)
  
• Partly replaces the North-South Drugs Budget
  line and Actions on Weapons
  
•  Crisis  Component ( 1,687 million between
  2007-2013, and  Long-Term Component , 384
  million)
  
• For Transregional threats 118 million, of
  which
  
• 9 million for 2007, 14 million in 2008
• Legal Base Instrument for Stability Regulation
  Article 4.1
  
• Overall Objective In the context of stable
  conditions, help build capacity to address global
  and transregional threats
  
• Coverage Worldwide

IfS
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A New Instrument

• Complementarity intervenes only when a threat
  cannot be addressed by other (eg Geographic...)
  instruments
  
• Multipurpose aims at addressing multidimensional
  aspects of global threats, eg trafficking of
  arms, human beings, organised crime, terrorism
  financing...
• Transregionality Following illegal flows (drugs
  trafficking, terrorism...), it addresses more
  than 1 region (eg Latin America and Caribbean,
  Sub-Saharan and North Africa...) and
  transregional cooperation
• Cooperation with EU Member States Both expertise
  from EU MS services and complementarity with
  their actions is actively sought
  
• Capacity Building The IfS targets sustainable
  capacity building activities, mostly through
  regional and supra-regional platforms
  

IfS
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IfS
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IfS 2009-2011 Whats in it for South-East Asia
Indicative Programme (under preparation)
- Under the new IP, Asia and South-East Asia t
argeted particularly for what regards critical
maritime routes, including Maritime Security in
the Straits of Malacca - The programme will b
e further identified in course of 2009, already
anticipated that will address legal frameworks,
institutional arrangements and operational
measures - Coverage littoral countries along
maritime routes with initial focus on the
Malacca Straits, the Bab-el- Mandeb (Mandab
Strait) and the Gulf of Aden - Seeking to ach
ieve safer and more secure maritime traffic,
better policing against terrorism, crime and
illicit trafficking, as well as improve
risk-preparedness for both conventional and CBRN
threats.

IfS
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More Information
EIDHR http//ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/worl
dwide/eidhr/index_en.htm EOMs http//ec.europ
a.eu/europeaid/where/worldwide/electoral-support/i
ndex_en.htm MA http//ec.europa.eu/europeaid
/where/worldwide/migration-asylum/index_en.htm
IfS http//ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/worldw
ide/stability-instrument/index_en.htm
INFORMATION