EU support for Northern Maluku province in Indonesia

The European Commission has decided to fund two NGO projects worth €2.58 million in support of primary school aged children in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, where education has been disrupted by conflict, violence and displacement. The projects will be implemented over three years by Save the Children (UK) (€1,720,000) and World Vision Deutschland (€860,000).

The Save the Children project will aim to support continuity of school attendance of internally displaced (IDP) children in North Maluku in 50 local schools. It will also aim to increase the school attendance of large numbers of IDP children who do not attend schools by reducing barriers to access and providing activities to support school attendance, including a focus on community building through the schools to reduce conflict and tension and the likelihood of further conflict. The programme will help to build peaceful communities though providing teacher training, school community support activities and parent-teacher workshops as well as improving school buildings and providing equipment.

EC support to World Vision Deustchland will finance the 'Peace and Tolerance Magazine' project. The aim is to increase civil society's capacity to engage in activities that will foster a sustainable peace and encourage reconciliation in North Maluku. In particular, through the development of a peace and tolerance education curriculum magazine, provision of teacher training in its use and classroom activities, the project aims to nurture peace attitudes and skills among 10,500 war-affected school children in 115 schools in North Maluku. The main activities are to produce the magazine, train teachers in its use and to provide follow-up support.

The financing decisions have been taken in the framework of the regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on operations to aid uprooted people in Asian and Latin American developing countries (OJ L 287, 31/10/2001, p. 3-7)

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