THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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The European Commission Programme aims to give technical assistance to countries to guarantee the safety of their citizens
In Latin America there are 23 homicides for every 100 thousand inhabitants. This figure is double the amount for Africa and five times the amount recorded in Asia. What's more, with only 9 per cent of the world's population, Latin America accounts for more than 30 per cent of the violent kil...
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“The city of La Paz is about 3,600 metres above sea level, which is an initial handicap for the adaptation process.”
Santiago Santos during one of the project’s activities in BoliviaWe turn our attention to fieldwork and look at Bolivia through the eyes of Santiago Santos Benitez, the technical coordinator of the project European support...
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Today, when corruption has become an endemic evil, we need more than ever to bring the country's institutions closer to its citizens, its legitimate creditors
The Open Government Partnership promotes a culture of transparency and accountabilityToday, when corruption has become an endemic evil that directly affects the democratic quality of our societies, we need more than ever to bring the country's institutions closer to its citizens, its legitimate creditors. One thing that contributes to closing the ga...
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Representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Institute of Social Security and the Institute for Access to Public Information travelled to Madrid with the support of EUROsociAL+ to find out more in situ about the Spanish experience with managing hospital medical records
When Margarita went to her Social Security hospital in El Salvador for her regular type 2 diabetes check-up, her medical record had disappeared. After hours of fruitless searching, she went in to see her doctor with a temporary (empty) file so that he could prescribe the appropriate...
