The Barcelona’s town hall will allocate 400,000 euros to international cooperation and health projects that help to face the covid-19 en other countries. According to a statement from the consistory, with this measure it becomes the first state administration to approve extraordinary cooperation aid against the pandemic.
They can choose to manage these projects entities and NGO accredited as experts in humanitarian action and emergencies. All of them will be able to submit their applications electronically between May 14 and 20 and, at most, they will be able to request 80,000 euros and the amount of the subsidy will not exceed 80% of the total cost of the intervention.
The consistory has detailed that the call will prioritize the interventions carried out in those territories considered as priorities in the master plan of Cooperació per a la Justícia Global de Barcelona 2018-2021, as is the case of Jordan (Amman), Lebanon (Sidon), Morocco (Tetouan), Mozambique (Maputo), Senegal (Dakar), Tunis (Tunisia), Colombia (Cali, Medellín and Bogotá) and Palestinian populations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Big city suburbs
Likewise, the subsidies will go to sectors directly affected by the coronavirus crisis, prioritizing the health, water, sanitation and hygiene sector, as well as the population with scarce resources located mainly in suburbs of large cities, which tend to be areas with higher population density.
The director of the City Hall Global Justice, David Llistar, stressed that “the coronavirus enters countries impoverished by capitals, later spreads in the suburbs and from there to small cities and, finally, to rural areas.”
“For these it is key to intervene in the containment of the pandemic in cities to limit the incidence in the rest of the country,” he said.
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