The Diplomat
The Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) have pledged 88,000 euros to finance ten projects for the development of human resources in Ibero-America.
As reported by the two entities this week, the funding will be distributed in ten projects presented by seven Ibero-American networks to promote activities related to the generation, dissemination and transfer of knowledge or projects aimed at promoting the development of skills, training and training of human resources.
All the networks benefiting from this first call for proposals are registered in the program Trabajar en Red es Afianzar Iberoamérica (Working in Network is to Strengthen Ibero-America), which is part of the SEGIB and to which a total of 24 organizations belong. At present, the networks that have benefited are in the phase of receiving the funds in order to implement their projects during the last four months of 2023, when they will have to report on their results through reports or technical reports.
The reports will focus on various topics, such as data protection, sports and the fight against doping, food safety and its link with the National Institutes of Health, an Ibero-American service on rare diseases, a training plan within the framework of the Ibero-American Epidemiological Observatory (OEPI), the holding of a seminar on challenges and innovation in the region’s healthcare systems or the development of government school courses on healthcare strategies.
“With this type of actions, from SEGIB, we intend to project the networks as relevant actors in cooperation, multilateralism and sustainable development,” said Andrés Allamand, Ibero-American Secretary General. “For this reason, we are also working on an Ibero-American Platform of Networks for Cooperation that will allow greater coordination and linkage between different actors, give greater visibility to their actions and strengthen their leading role in the construction of the Ibero-America to which we aspire,” he added.
The beneficiary entities in this first call of Working in Network is to Strengthen Ibero-America are the Ibero-American Data Protection Network (RIPD), created in La Antigua (Guatemala) in 2003 with the political support of the XIII Ibero-American Summit, held that same year in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; the Ibero-American Alliance for Rare and/or Orphan Diseases (ALIBER), present in 13 Ibero-American countries and which brings together more than 500 organizations of patients with rare diseases; the Ibero-American Network of Public Health Schools and Training Centers of Ibero-America (RESP-IA), the Ibero-American Network of Health Schools and Technicians (RIETS), created in 2021 with the mission of strengthening national health systems through the qualification of workers; the Ibero-American Network against Doping (RILD), promoted by the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD), the Regional Office of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA-AMA) and the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNADO); the Ibero-American Ministerial Network for Learning and Research in Health (RIMAIS) and the Ibero-American Network of National Institutes of Health (RIINS).
