| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, file sheets, reports, financial papers, grant terms and conditions, agendas, policy papers and project proposals relating to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: ECRE is a pan-European Alliance of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations. ECRE is concerned with the needs of all individuals who seek refuge and protection within Europe. It aims to promote the protection and integration of refugees in Europe based on the values of human dignity, human rights, and an ethic of solidarity. ECRE seeks to achieve this aim by, 1) advocating a fair and humane European asylum policy and by promoting the development of a comprehensive and coherent response by the international community to refugee movements, 2) strengthening networking between refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations in Europe, and, 3) developing the institutional capacity of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations in Europe. ECRE was established in 1974. Nature of support: In 2007 the Trust approved a grant of £49,750 towards policy development, advocacy and media work on access to protection in Europe and advocacy and media work on Dublin II Regulation. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: File organised by subject. File not numbered. |