Spain will allocate 101 million euros to the new Country Association Framework with Ecuador

Eduardo González The Council of Ministers has taken note of the approval of the Ecuador-Spain Sustainable Development Partnership Framework 2024-2028, which was signed last November during the Ibero-American Summit and for which a budget forecast of approximately 101 million euros is estimated. On November 14, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and his Ecuadorian counterpart, Gabriela Sommerfeld, signed the XV Minutes of the Spanish-Ecuadorian Joint Commission for Cooperation that launches the Country Association Framework (MAP, by its acronym in Spanish) Spain-Ecuador 2024-2028, which will guide Spanish Cooperation in Ecuador for the next four years. The event took place within the framework of the XXIX Ibero-American Summit, held in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador). At the meeting, which was also attended by the director of the AECID, Antón Leis, Albares recalled that Ecuador is a “priority country for our cooperation”, as stated in the Master Plan for Sustainable Development and Global Solidarity 2024-2027. The Spain-Ecuador Partnership Framework (2024-2028) prioritizes four main areas of work: gender equality and inclusion of vulnerable groups; rural development, promoting access to food and nutritional security, drinking water, sanitation and sustainable development; action for the climate and the ecological transition through research, green innovation, the circular economy, the protection and conservation of natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity; and the quality and performance of public institutions to make them more effective, efficient, transparent, responsible, innovative and citizen-oriented. In addition, the MAP will incorporate in a “systematic and horizontal” way the human rights-based approach and the feminist and gender approach, environmental sustainability and cultural diversity, with special attention to the role of indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant communities. Furthermore, given the country's vulnerability to natural disasters and adverse climate phenomena, Spanish Cooperation in Ecuador will integrate a cross-cutting risk management approach in all its actions. To meet all these objectives, 101 million euros will be allocated during the four years of the MAP.

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