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Spain's Official Development Assistance, please click here.   

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  Agencies:  <back to top>
  The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation/ Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI) is a dependent agency of the State Secretariat for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America within the Foreign Ministry (Secretaría de Estado papa la Cooperación Internacional y para Iberoamérica (SECIPI), Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores). It is responsible for the planning and implementation of the Spanish development cooperation.

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  Target Countries:  <back to top>
  Spanish programme countries are Albania, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Palestinian Authority, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Tunisia, Viet Nam, Western Sahara.

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  Development priorities:  <back to top>
  The priorities of Spanish development cooperation are poverty alleviation, gender equality, and the conservation of the environment.

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  Priority sectors:  <back to top>
  The sectoral priorities of Spanish development cooperation are basic social needs (heath, sanitation, education, food security, human resources development); education, research and cultural identity; infrastructure and the producing sector (including private sector development); environmental issues; social participation, development of institutional structures, good governance; conflict prevention and the promotion of peace.

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  Donors' Approaches:  <back to top>
  Spain supports the Sector Wide Approach.

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  TVET:  <back to top>
  Education is one of the priority sectors of Spanish development cooperation. This sector includes vocational education and training.

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  Technical assistance:  <back to top>
  There are 29 Spanish technical cooperation offices worldwide; the respective contact information can be found here: http://www.mae.es > Enlaces.

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  NGOs:  <back to top>
  About a third of the amount dedicated to Spanish bilateral development assistance is channelled through NGOs. On the other hand, Spanish NGOs focus on the geographical priorities of the governmental Spanish development assistance; most of Spanish NGO activities take place in Latin American countries.

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  Submission:  <back to top>
  AECI has a planning and evaluation unit (Oficina de planificación y evaluación). Contact information of this division is available here: http://www.aeci.es > Oficina Planificación y Evaluación.

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  Documents:  <back to top>
 

Publications on Spanish Development Cooperation (in Spanish) as well as evaluations can be found here: http://www.mae.es > Cooperación al desarrollo > Publicaciones de la Cooperación Española; http://www.aeci.es > Programas de cooperación; and http://www.aeci.es > Documentación de Cooperación. Agreements between Spain and partner countries can be accessed here: http://www.aeci.es > Acuerdos y convenios.


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  Contact:  <back to top>
 
Name State Secretariat for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America, Foreign Ministry/
Secretaría de Estado papa la Cooperación Internacional y para Iberoamérica (SECIPI), Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores)
Street Address   Plaza de la Provincia, 1
28012 Madrid
Phone [+32] (91) 379 97 00
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Street Address Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca, 8
28006 Madrid
Phone [+32] (91) 379 83 00
Website (languages) http://www.mae.es > Cooperación al desarrollo (Spanish)

There are 29 Spanish technical cooperation offices worldwide, as well as 12 culture centres and three training centres; contact information can be found here: http://www.mae.es > Enlaces.

Name Spanish Agency for International Cooperation/ Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI)
Postal Address Avenida de los Reyes Católicos, 4
28040 Madrid
Phone [+32] (91) 583 81 00/01/02
Fax [+32] (91) 583 83 10/11/13
E-mail E-mail form: http://www.aeci.es > Buzón de sugerencias, consultas e información
Website (languages) http://www.mae.es (Spanish)

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  Footnotes:  <back to top>
 

  Information used in this section on Spanish development cooperation was taken from the following sources:
Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.mae.es, access: 07 November 2003;
Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, http://www.aeci.es, access: 07 November.

 
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