THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Hace siete años, la densidad carcelaria en Argelia era de 170 reclusos por cada 100 plazas en centros penitenciarios construidos durante la época colonial (1830-1962). Hoy, es de 150 por cada 100, se cuenta con prisiones que cumplen los estándares internacionales de detención y con un cambio de mentalidad: los centros penitenciarios son lugares para la reinserción social de los reclusos. Este es el resultado de más de un lustro de trabajo, apoyado por un programa financiado por la Comisión Europea (CE) y gestionado por la FIIAPP, para comenzar a reformar el sistema penitenciario del país norteafricano.Seven years ago, prison density in Algeria was 170 inmates for every 100 spaces, and inmates were held in prisons built during the colonial era (1830-1962). Today, it is 150 per 100, and inmates are held in prisons that meet international detention standards. There has been a change in mentality: prisons are places for seeking the social re-integration of inmates. This is the result of more than five years of work, supported by a programme financed by the European Commission (EC) and managed by the FIIAPP, aimed at starting to reform the prison system of this North African country.
“Clearly, prison conditions affect later re-integration into society and prevention of recidivism”, asserts Mercedes Herrera. Prison overcrowding is just the tip of the iceberg of an issue with multiple emergent consequences, such as health and coexis...
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Cecilia Castillo, representante de la FIIAPP en Bruselas, hace en este artículo una reflexión sobre la ayuda al desarrollo, las diferentes fases por las que ha pasado y cuáles son sus retos para el futuro.In this article, Cecilia Castillo, the FIIAPP representative in Brussels reflects on development aid, the different phases this has passed through and its challenges for the future.
Maximizing the impact of actions oriented towards development and the fight against poverty, as well as aid management based on results and effectiveness, should be habitual practises in international cooperation. However, since the 1990s, multilateral bodies, foreign aid donors and recipien...
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Interview with Thelma Aldana, Attorney General of the Republic of Guatemala, Head of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The Attorney General of the Republic of Guatemala and Head of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Thelma Aldana, opened the Second Annual EUROsociAL Programme Meeting in Antigua, Guatemala. Taking advantage of her presence, we asked her to answer our questions about the work of EUROsociAL in t...
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José Jaime de Domingo, director técnico del proyecto MEDIPIET en el Instituto de Salud Pública Carlos III, explica en este artículo los objetivos y acciones a desarrollar por el programa que dirige y que tiene como objetivo formar a los países del mediterráneo para intervenir en caso de una crisis epidemiológica.José Jaime de Domingo, Technical Director of the MEDIPIET project at the Carlos III Public Health Institute, explains in this article the objectives and actions to be developed by the programme he directs, which aims to provide training to Mediterranean countries so that they can intervene in the event of an epidemiological crisis.
The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, along with other health alerts such as MERS-Cov in the Middle East and the uptick in polio cases being reported in places where the disease had been declared eliminated, demonstrates the importance of developing standardized preve...
