The Diplomat
The Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has opened the hearing and public information process of the draft Royal Decree of the Aid Worker’s Statute, which will allow to collect the different external opinions before its final drafting.
“The new Aid Worker’s Statute will consolidate a dignified, attractive and motivating professional career for people who represent the solidarity of Spanish citizens around the world,” the Agency stated yesterday via Twitter. “Its public hearing is already open,” it added.
The purpose of the public hearing and information procedures is to gather the opinion of citizens whose interests or rights may be affected by a regulatory project already drafted -either directly or through the organizations or associations that represent them- and to obtain any additional contributions that may be made by other persons or entities.
The new Law of Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Global Security, approved last February with the support of all the parliamentary groups, except Vox, establishes a six-month period for the drafting of the new Aid Worker’s Statute.
On April 18, the director of the AECI, Antón Leis, assured yesterday before the Commission of Cooperation of the Congress that the objective of the Government is that the text is ready “in June, or at the latest at the beginning of July”. According to Leis, the objective of the Aid Worker’s Statute is “to consolidate a professional career that is dignified, attractive and motivating for the 6,689 people who represent Spain and the solidarity of our citizens”, because Spanish Cooperation, he added, needs “well-paid professionals who are experts in their fields”.
