Tenerife Water Board

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Tenerife Voluntary Service Office

As part of the Tenerife Solidarity Programme managed by the Agency for the Promotion of the Disabled (SINPROMI, S.L. ), a Tenerife Insular Council public company, the Voluntary Service Office, has been set up to provide information and advice to volunteer(s) and associations. It also is a driving force for the objectives and actions of the Tenerife Solidarity Programme. Any potential volunteer can get information on all aspects of volunteering, NGOs, programmes run and on the steps to be taken to become a volunteer.

Casa África

Casa África (Africa House) is a public diplomacy instrument serving the State foreign action which includes the Insular Council of Tenerife. In order to accomplish its mission, Casa África is working towards its two complementary goals. On the one hand, to bring Africa to Spain, to Spanish public opinion overall – universities, experts, entrepreneurs, the media and the general public -, by incorporating the knowledge and participation of Africans and its institutions. The other key objective of Casa África is to work closely with African institutions and societies to discover their interests and priorities, helping to identify their potential counterparts and foster contacts.

Fundación Canaria para la Acción Exterior (Canarian Foundation for Foreign Action - FUCAEX)

It is a non-profit public foundation of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Its purpose is to foster and support activities, actions and programmes aimed at consolidating the presence of the Canary Islands overseas and promoting their interests in the national territory and in the rest of the world, particularly, in those States with which there are special links and ties for economic, cultural, historical or similar reasons.

Coordinadora de ONGD’s de Canarias (CONGDCA)

The Federación Coordinadora de ONGDs de Canarias (Canarian DNGO Coordinator Federation - CONGDCA) is a federation of non-governmental organisations that operate from the Canary Islands in the sphere of development cooperation. The Federación Coordinadora de ONGDs de Tenerife (Tenerife DNGO Coordinator Federation - FCONGDS-TNF) is a member of the CONGDCA: The mission of the CONGDCA is education to develop and foster international cooperation to develop impoverished peoples and countries, along with any other countries in need due to natural catastrophes or other reasons. Its portal, contains up-to-date information on the member organisations, social agenda, events and news.

Agencia Española de cooperación Internacional

The Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation - AECID) is the management entity of the Spanish international cooperation policy foster, manage and implement the international development cooperation public policies, aimed at fighting poverty and achieving sustainable human development in developing countries, particularly those included in its current four-year Master Plan. Fighting poverty is the end goal of Spanish international development cooperation policy. It is part of the State’s foreign action and is based on a solidarity and interdependent cooperation of international society.

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The Insular Council of Tenerife believes that international cooperation for development has to be a shared endeavour to support developing countries. This involves establishing relations between organisations and entities to foster increased levels of sustainable cultural, economic and social development.

Types of cooperation

• Direct.- Where the Insular Council itself is an active party or counterpart in the project development with local organisations of the beneficiary countries.
• Indirect.- Through Development Non-Governmental Organisations (DNGO), international networks and other entities, with priority on the countries from West African, particularly Cape Verde, Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal; along with other African and Central and South American countries with a low human development index.

Services offered

• Showcasing African culture ad cooperating with Casa África (Africa House).-In particular, organising dissemination and cultural activities to help people to learn more about the neighbouring continent and its cultural and social situation.
• Education for development and awareness raising.-
  Another of the international cooperation goals is to incentivize education activities for informal, non-formal and formal development by means of awareness raising, education and the production of educational material that fosters values and attitudes related to solidarity and social justice by searching for channels for action to achieve sustainable development.
• Emergency and humanitarian aid.-
  This involves sending the necessary emergency aid, including emergency food aid to protect human lives and relieve the situation of victims of natural or man-made catastrophes or in war zones. This aid is sent through local and Spanish DNGOs or directly, by funding aid such as food and health supplies and basic transport infrastructures.

Its goals

• Increase the capacities of the institutions and individuals to drive the development of their countries.
• Increase the economic capacities, by means of developing their companies and fostering commercial and economic relations.
• Encourage co-development so that the immigrant groups in Tenerife help to develop their places of origin.

Other partnerships

• Measures in coordination with Immigrant Associations.- The goal is to involve the immigrant association in identifying and implementing co-development projects , together with cultural and awareness raising actions as they are the direct transmitters of their customs and habits and fostering intercultural integration and coexistence. This is carried out in coordination with the Tenerife Immigration Observatory (OBITEN).
• Partnership with La Laguna University.- The Insular Council of Tenerife likewise prioritises establishing close partnerships ties with La Laguna University to coordinate and complement their respective cooperation strategies.

Contact and Information

• Address: Alcalde Mandillo Tejera, 8, 38007 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
• Telephone: 922 843 993

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Canary Island Government Aid

Over the last decade, the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has been increasingly committed to development cooperation with less developed countries and peoples. Cooperation is taken to mean a set of actions, strategies and resources that the Canary Island Government has earmarked to improve the economic conditions and the quality of life of the developing countries with which it has proximity, cultural or historical relations.

The result of this increasing activity are the calls for subsidies where the Canary Islands Government allocates economic resources each year to implement development cooperation projects and social awareness and education campaigns by development non-governmental organisations.

Implementation of common business projects

The www.AfricaInfoMarket.org portal fundamentally seeks to provide information that facilitates the implementation of common projects between entrepreneurs from the Canary Islands and Africa and between development cooperation agents from the Islands and the neighbouring continent.

It is project of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Chamber of Commerce, Las Palmas Chamber of Commerce and the Canary Islands Government through the Canarian Society for Economic Development (PROEXCA) and the General Directorate for Relations with Africa for the Canary Islands Government.

Contact and Information

• Sociedad Canaria de Fomento Económico (Canarian Society for Economic Development - PROEXCA) (Main Office)
• Address: Calle Imeldo Serís, 57, tercer piso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Telephone: 922 470 456
• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• Santa Cruz de Tenerife Chamber of Commerce
• Address: Plaza de La Candelaria, 6, 38003, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Telephone: 922 100 400
• Website: www.camaratenerife.com/

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One of the tasks entrusted to the Economy and Competitiveness Department, though the European Affairs and International Cooperation Service, is to support the departments, centres, entities and companies answering to the Insular Council in order to facilitate and foster their participation in the projects likely to be eligible for community funding.

Services offered

• Monitoring, at each stage of the programme, the different financial instruments and identifying those that are of interest for the Council departments and entities, studying their feasibility according to their nature, sector level, appropriateness in terms of the interests of the island and the goals of the community policies.
• Administrative support to submit project to the European calls for projects, together with their monitoring and their subsequent justification.
• Support in the search for partners needed to bid in the different calls for tenders.
• Driving, coordinating and preparing transversal insular projects, with the participation of different departments of the Insular Council, likely to be eligible for European funding.

Other functions

• Technical, and where applicable financial, cooperation with the Island’s local councils to submit or implement European-funded projects that are of interest to the island, due to their contents and scope.
• Searching for and implementing incentivisation mechanisms and fostering the participation of businesses and of other public and private entities in European projects, particularly in those sectors considered to be strategic for the island’s social and economic development.

Projects

TE.NO (Tenerife-Northwest) 2015, "Fostering the northwest of Tenerife"

TE.NO 2015 is a project whose main objective is to achieve integral development in the northwest zone of Tenerife in four areas: environmental, economic, social and institutional. Its sphere of action comprises the municipalities of Icod de los Vinos, Garachico, Los Silos, El Tanque and Buenavista del Norte.

The project actions are grouped around the following three focal points:

• Focal point 1.- Conserving and recovering the cultural and natural heritage as a source of wealth in a sustainable development framework.
• Focal point 2.- Fostering the versatility and residential attractiveness of the urban centres.
• Focal point 3.- Introducing new technologies to improve citizen services and fostering social participation.

The TE.NO 2015 project is co-financed to the tune of 75% by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with a subsidy totalling €1,566,641.78. The actions to implement the project started in 2008 and the ERDF expects this initial phase to be completed halfway through 2011.

The following departments of the Insular Council are currently involved in its implementation: Economy and Competitiveness, Tourism and Planning, Sustainability, Territory and the Environment, Agriculture; Livestock, Fisheries and Water, Culture, Heritage and Museums, Council Office for Landscape and City Environment, Council Office for Planning, along with the Isla Baja Consortium. Furthermore, the Economy and Competitiveness Department is managing, coordinating and monitoring the project, in addition to implementing its relevant actions.

“Arona Urban and Local Development Strategy” Urban Project 2007-2013

The Insular Council of Tenerife, as part of an agreement signed with Arona Local Council in 2008, are financially and technically involved in the implementation of this project, organised by the local council and approved as part of the URBAN 2007-2013 call for projects.

Its main objective is to get underway innovative social and economic regeneration strategies of urban zones. Based on an integrated approach, the strategies drive sustainable urban development in accordance with the strategic principles and guidelines of community policies.

The Urban Project 2007-2013 contains the agreed strategies for the sustainable territorial development of the neighbourhoods of the south-east of the municipality: Las Galletas, El Fraile and Costa del Silencio. An urban setting with serious social, economic and environmental shortcomings, that requires coordinated, prudent and comprehensive emergency measures, in an endeavour to achieve a first-rate area for the life of its citizens.

The project is 75% co-funded by the European Commission through the ERDF as part of the Urban Community Initiative (URBAN), envisaged in Urban and Local Development Focal point 5 of the Canary Island ERDF Operational Programme of the Canary Islands 2007-2013

For further information:

website: www.arona.org