Contribute to the strengthening of political decentralization and sustainable economic development in Uruguay with territorial equity. 

Duration: 36 months. (1/04/ 2019 - 31/ 03/2022) 
Total cost: € 1,332,770.60 
EU contribution: € 850,000 (63.78%) 

Participants: 

• Congreso de Intendentes  

Goals: 

• To generate knowledge and specific information that provides feedback on the decentralization process and the institutional capacities of local governments in Uruguay. 
• To promote dialogue and political and social debate on issues related to decentralization, the management of local governments and local economic development. 
• To implement territorial projects with a focus on territorial economic development, with sustainability criteria and a gender perspective. 

Main components: 

• Creation of an Institute of Studies and Training in the orbit of the Congress of Mayors.
• Support for dialogue for decentralization and the transition of departmental governments and municipal authorities.
• Calling the municipalities of the country to carry out projects of 26,000 euros each with a focus on productive economic development, with sustainability criteria and a gender perspective. 

Contribute to the development of actions for an inclusive and egalitarian society with a focus on human rights 

"There is much in so little that it is not enough, but each step moves us and we call it hope" - Tomás Silva, participant. 

Duration: 09/1/2017 - 08/31/2021 
Total Cost: € 615,700 
EU contribution: € 520,000 

Participants: 

• Luna Nueva  
• Instituto de Investigación y Acción Educativa  
• IELSUR 
• Fundación Marista para la Solidaridad Internacional 
• El Abrojo 
• Gurises Unidos 

Goals: 

• To set up a permanent monitoring system of the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child applied. 
• To strengthen the exchange, monitoring and advocacy capacities of organized civil society in the interior of the country, at the local and national levels. 
• To help Uruguayan adolescents with leading participation to promote the full exercise of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Main components: 

• Creation and strengthening of capacities for the promotion and defence of the rights of children and adolescents in Uruguay by its protagonists.
• Creation of the Observatory for Boys, Girls and Adolescents.
• Preparation of a diagnostic report on the general situation of the Rights of children and adolescents.
• Increased knowledge of Rights among decision makers. 

Contribute to the economic empowerment and leadership of women for sustainable, inclusive and equitable growth. 

Duration: 3 years (2019 - 06/30/21) 
Total Cost: € 10,080,000 
EU contribution: € 9,000,000 

Participants: 

• UN Women 
• ILO 

Goals: 

• To increase cooperation between women-led companies in Europe and Latin America to expand business opportunities. 
• To develop and adopt a model for the participation of the gender-sensitive private sector to support the achievement of the SDGs. 
• To develop "facilities" to promote enterprises bi-regional led by women. 

Main components: 

• Mapping of women's organizations and networks in the business sector.
• Training and technical assistance to strengthen your business management skills.
• Awareness campaigns about WEPs (United Nations economic empowerment principles).
• Development of an innovative investment facility. 

Social project that seeks to contribute to the economic, social, cultural and political integration of adolescents and young people who find their rights and the full exercise of their citizenship violated. 

Duration: 09/1/2017 - 06/30/2021 
Total Cost: € 592,884 
EU contribution: € 530,249 

Participants: 

• Proderechos 
• Ovejas Negras 
• Mujeres en el Horno 
• Mizangas 
• VIHdas 

Goals: 

• To strengthen the economic, social and cultural capacities of adolescents and young people, male and female, who are in prison, LGBTIQ, HIV positive or Afro-descendants. 
• To improve its incidence in the generation and monitoring of public policies. 

Main components: 

• Creation of a space for dialogue for political advocacy between civil society organizations and state institutions.
• Generation of socio-educational and socio-labor actions whose objective is to generate significant practices for the generation of public policies.
• Generation of awareness campaigns on the mechanisms of oppression that affect populations and violate their rights.
• Research based on quantitative data to generate recommendations for public policy. 

Social project aimed at knowing and giving visibility to the problem of Human Trafficking in Uruguay. 

Duration: 09/1/2017 - 05/31/2021 
Total cost: € 511,000 
EU contribution: € 450,000 

Participants: 

• Asociación Civil El Paso 
• El Abrojo 

Goals: 

• To promote the implementation of public policies that reduce situations of human trafficking in Uruguay. 
• To contribute to the knowledge of the production and reproduction of human trafficking, especially women for labor and sexual purposes, incorporating the sexual exploitation of girls, boys and adolescents. 
• To strengthen local and national capacities to prevent situations of trafficking. 
• To improve knowledge and communicational dissemination on the issues of trafficking and sexual exploitation. 

Main components: 

• Contribute to the design, collection of information and primary preparation of investigations: trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation, situation of children and adolescents in situations of commercial sexual exploitation, research on exploratory trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation.
• Make visible the trafficking of women, men, children and adolescents in our country. 

Promote, from the social and solidarity economy, strategies and actions for the promotion of the socio-economic and cultural rights of women. 

Duration: 08/07/17 - 03/31/2021 
Total cost: € 467,172 
EU contribution: € 397,096 

Participants: 

• Federación de Cooperativas de Producción del Uruguay (FCPU) 
• CUDECOOP 
• COSPE (Italian NGO) 

Goals: 

• To deepen the access of women to affirmative policies, as well as to strengthen their participation in the different decision-making, creation and representation spaces. 
• Systematize and disseminate the good practices that they generate in their territory and their specific contribution to achieving sustainable and inclusive development in the country. 

Main components: 

• Generation of information through a diagnosis of the situation of Women in relation to their rights.
• Design of strategies and actions for the incorporation of the gender approach in corporate management.
• Installation and start-up of a national cooperative network / commission for the purpose of monitoring and raising awareness in the territories where cooperatives operate.