Endowed with 17,000 euros, aims to prevent deterioration or possible spoilage of archives after the natural disaster that struck the island last January
The national directors of the Archives of Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Dominican Republic and Uruguay have approved the Development Support Program Files Ibero (ADAI) to develop a project to learn the status of documentary and archival heritage of Haiti after the earthquake that struck the island last January.
The project will be endowed with 17,000 euros and provide a diagnosis, technical report and proposal of aid needed to be taken urgently to avoid deterioration and possible spoliation of documentary and archival heritage of Haiti. This project will be coordinated by the National General Archive of the Dominican Republic and will count with the collaboration of the National Archives of the Republic of Cuba, neighboring countries that have assumed joint responsibility for its implementation.
Grants for 99 projects archive
Furthermore ADAI has approved aid worth 590,000 euros to 99 Latin American archival projects, the annual call for 2009.
Of the 208 projects submitted by the Latin American countries members of the Program and El Salvador, which participates as a guest country - for the first time have adopted four directly related to Latin America, presented by archival institutions in Spain and Portugal. The rest will address plans for recovery and treatment of documentary sources on indigenous peoples, the situation of women, human rights, the recovery of historical memory, African American culture and the different migration processes between continents.
In addition, the ADAI Intergovernmental Committee unanimously adopted another draft supranational nature endowed with 13,350 euros for the development of training in Central Files, contributing to a gathering of university academic authorities in Costa Rica.
An international benchmark for cooperation and professional collaboration
ADAI Program, which emerged in the framework of the Ibero-American Summits of Heads of State and Government in 1999 for project development assistance and protection, retrieval and dissemination of Latin American documentary heritage is a model of cooperation and collaboration in Files in the twelve countries participating Latin American, plus Spain and Portugal. Since its inception, has consolidated gradually showing signs of effectiveness, to become an international benchmark for professional collaboration.