• 24 March 2015

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    Category : Opinion

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    One year of cooperation on Radio 5

    “Public Cooperation Around the World” is celebrating one year of bringing the FIIAPP reality to 80 thousand listeners each week.

    One year ago “Public Cooperation Around the World” started broadcasting on Radio 5, telling the stories of our projects, our experts on the ground and our day-to-day work to improve public systems in the countries where we work.

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  • 12 March 2015

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    Category : Interview

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    ”The Migration and Development programme was created in response to the Crisis of the Cayucos”

    Entrevista a Sara Bayés, jefa del Programa de Migración y Desarrollo de la FIIAPP desde hace más de seis años, y actual responsable del equipo de Administración Pública y Asuntos Sociales. De su mano, hacemos repaso del pasado, presente y futuro de este programa.Interview with Sara Bayés, head of the FIIAPP's Migration and Development Programme for the past six months and current leader of the Public Administration and Social Affairs team. She takes us on a tour of the past, present and future of this programme. Interview with Sara Bayés, head of the FIIAPP's Migration and Development Programme for the past six months and current leader of the Public Administration and Social Affairs team. She takes us on a tour of the past, present and future of this programme. Interview with Sara Bayés, head of the FIIAPP's Migration and Development Programme for the past six months and current leader of the Public Administration and Social Affairs team. She takes us on a tour of the past, present and future of this programme.

    How did the FIIAPP start to manage migration projects?

    The FIIAPP started working on migration issues in2006. The Migration and Development programme was created due to the so-called ‘Crisis of the cayucos’, which arose in 2004-2005 w...

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  • 04 March 2015

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    Category : Interview

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    The challenges of gender for social cohesion

    The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.El concepto “cohesión social” no es unívoco, se presta a múltiples interpretaciones académicas y políticas. Los principales instrumentos internacionales y europeos permiten una aproximación que acota su significado y lo liga a la igualdad de oportunidades, al bienestar y al ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía. Entendida sobre estos atributos, la cohesión social debe incorporar necesariamente la igualdad de género.The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.The concept of “social cohesion” is not monolithic but rather lends itself to multiple academic and political interpretations. The main international and European instruments provide an approximation that narrows down its meaning and links it to equal opportunities, welfare and full exercise of citizenship. Understood on the basis on these attributes, social cohesion must necessarily include gender equality.

    Inequality between women and men cuts across societies and is manifested in issues such as the feminization of poverty, gender violence, lower political participation by women, employment and wage inequality, female illiteracy and the difficulty women have gaining access to full sexual a...

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  • 26 February 2015

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    Category : Opinion

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    Anti-drug crops

    El cultivo del cacao o el café se ha convertido en la alternativa de aquellas personas que subsisten de la plantación y recolección de plantas que contienen estupefacientes. El ‘Desarrollo alternativo’, una opción para cambiar la forma de vida de cientos de familias. Este sistema ya ha atendido a 190.000 en Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia. The planting of cocoa or coffee has become an alternative for people who subsist by cultivating and harvesting narcotic-containing plants. "Alternative development", an option for changing the way of life of hundreds of families. This system has already helped 190,000 families in Colombia.

    Rural farmers, African-descended, Raizaland indigenous groups. Families belonging to these four communities in Colombia have resorted to illegal cultivation of plants like coca and poppies (from which heroin is derived) as a way of life. The ease of cultivation offered by the zon...

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