Development and Education Centre EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (D.E.C.E.P.) is a Greek non-profit, non- governmental autonomous organisation, active in the field of international development cooperation. The headquarters of the organisation are in Athens. Its activities are promoted through the function of regional support offices in FYROM, Albania, Kosovo, Ecuador, Belize, and Commonwealth of Dominica.

D.E.C.E.P. plans and implements integrated activities with the objective to promote sustainable development, provide humanitarian assistance and contribute towards the establishment of democratic institutions in the target countries. More particularly D.E.C.E.P. realizes:

• Emergency humanitarian and food aid actions for developing countries and, in general, for any area on the planet needing aid;
• Human rights promotion and protection and democratization enhancement actions in developing countries;
• Rehabilitation and reconstruction actions;
• Actions aiming at the planet's sustainable and viable development, at the environmental and developmental education, training and updating, with the participation of the local institutions, in order to achieve the objective of the information and sensitization of the citizens as well as the government institutions in regard with environmental and development matters;
• Actions aiming at the incorporation of the less favored social groups and classes (unemployed, youth, women, persons released from prisons, ethnic, religious or other minorities etc.) in the productive process and at the improvement of the conditions leading to their smooth admission in the labour market;
• Development aid actions and development programs aiming at the economic and social development of these countries, while promoting at the same time their cultural development;
• Development education and awareness activities through planning and holding of conferences, meetings, publications, vocational training and vocational guidance and information programs.

In the framework of its objectives and activities, D.E.C.E.P. invites all local, decentralized development actors, NGOs and unions of citizens to establish new alliances for a better world.

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE - HELLENIC N.G.O.
14, Ikarias str. N. Ionia 142 31, Greece
Tel. (+30) 210-2754050 Fax: (+30) 210-2710960 E-mail: comm@europers.gr