The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers authorized this past Tuesday the annual call for grants from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) to Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGDOs) for the implementation of development cooperation projects, including education for development and global citizenship in Spain.
The call will have a maximum amount of 32 million Euros coming, on the one hand, from the General State Budget in force up to a maximum of one million Euros and, on the other hand, from the funds derived from the Other social interest purposes box included in the Personal Income Tax (IRPF) declaration corresponding to the year 2022. The beneficiaries will be those NGDOs that, due to their experience and presence in the partner countries, carry out important work in development cooperation and contribute significantly to education for development and global citizenship in Spain.
Two types of projects will be subsidized through this call: development projects in a single country aimed at a specific objective (therefore, projects submitted for more than one country will not be eligible) and education projects for development and global citizenship within Spain with the aim of “promoting a model of global citizenship capable of contributing to the fight against poverty and the promotion of the development of peoples, from a human rights approach, and for the promotion of fair trade”.
The priorities of both project modalities are, within the framework of the COVID-19 Strategy, the saving of lives and the reinforcement of public health systems, the protection and recovery of rights and livelihoods of the most vulnerable people, the preservation and transformation of socioeconomic systems, the recovery of the productive fabric and the reinforcement of democratic governance.
Geographically, cooperation initiatives with vulnerable populations in Bolivia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Dominican Republic, Senegal, Tunisia and with the Sahrawi population in Algeria will be eligible. In all these countries, AECID has a Technical Cooperation Office for the identification and monitoring of cooperation projects and programs financed by the Agency, as well as for the coordination and support to all Spanish Cooperation actors working in each country.
