The AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) aims to combat poverty in over 40 countries, focusing on providing essential rights such as education, healthcare, and nutrition. With a significant financial commitment, the agency prioritizes human development, gender equality, and environmental sustainability while facilitating emergency aid and promoting democratic governance. Through various programs, the AECID works to ensure access to clean water, food security, and health services, emphasizing the importance of these fundamental rights.

1. Agencia Española de Cooperación
Internacional al Desarrollo
Spanish Cooperation Agency for
International Development

3. • The AECID fights against poverty in more than 40 countries all around the world
• The AECID has fought against poverty for 25 years
• The AECID has 35 technical cooperation offices, 12 cultural centers, and 4
educational centers in Latin America, Asia, and Africa respectively
• They work with international organizations and with other Spanish entities -
focusing on cooperation, so the help arrives efficiently and we become one step
closer to a better world
• Facilitates cooperation in connection with emergency aid when natural and man-
made disasters leave thousands of people without basic necessities
• With a portion of the Spanish finances, the AECID makes sure that vulnerable
countries and populations have, the right to go to school, access to healthcare and
nourishment
• Objective: for people to obtain and enjoy their rights and live in peace and liberty
in a more sustainable world
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4. General knowledge about the AECID
• EYD2015 The European Year of Development
• The 4th Master Plan
• The Millennium Development Goals
• 3 cross-cutting perspectives
gender, environmental quality, and respect for
cultural diversity
• Priority lines:
- the advancement of human development and
equality in international relations
- the prevention of, and attention to emergency
situations
- the promotion of democracy
- the promotion of relations with partner
countries
• Financing: In 2014 the Official Spanish
Development Assistance donated 1034 million
euros for AECID

5. Where we cooperate
The AECID is present in 38 countries
Priority regions
Latin America
North and Eastern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

6. Aid sectors
- Water and sanitation
- Economic growth
- Culture and science
- Rural development, food security and
nutrition
- Education
- Gender
- Democratic Governments
- Environment and climate change
- Health
Humanitarian assistance and projects

7. Water and sanitation
• Freshwater is a key factor for sustainable
development
• AECID works to guarantee access to
freshwater and sanitation for everyone
• The 4th Master Plan (2013-2016)
Emphasizes the fact that the access to clean
water and sanitation is a human right
• FCAS (2007): The fund of cooperation for
water and sanitation
The most important project in the scope of
water and sanitation

8. The Cooperation Fond of
Water and Sanitation
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Somos agua

9. Rural development, food
security and nutrition
• Self-sufficient agriculture is one of the most
important activities in many of the poorest
countries
• The 3th Master Plan (2009-2012)
Emphasizes the human right to food and improves
conditions and food security of rural and urban
population
• World Food Summit (1996)
The goal, focusing on physical, social and
economic elements promotes the accessibility of
sufficient nutrition for all.

10. Education
• In the fight against poverty, education is a very
important factor.
• It is a human right to have access to education, and it’s
a fundamental element of well-being
• The AECID fights for every person, for the right to an
education, focusing on the most vulnerable groups with
the lowest levels of education
• Education for all: a Human Right and Basic Need

11. Gender
• Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• The sustainable development and the extermination of poverty requires gender equality
• To fight discrimination against women the AECID implemented a strategy to promote the equality
between men and women
• Guidelines to gender equality
- Social and political participation
- Fight against gender violence
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Economic and workers rights for women

12. Democratic Governance
• The AECID works to give every individual the right to choose
its own political, economical, social and cultural system
• The AECID informs the population of its rights, and by doing
so motivates the citizens to keep their dignity and keeps the
legitimacy of the state.
• Spanish Cooperation of Democratic Governance Materials
This strategy recognizes the citizen’s right to sustainable
development
Emphasizes that the government should guarantee access to
public services

13. Health
• Access to health is a human right, and the AECID encourages solidarity, equality, and justice in the
pursuit of this right
• Health in all policies
Health, and knowledge about health are criteria for achieving sustainable development and crucial in
the fight against poverty

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Anne Dorte Dyreby – MartaVelasco Rodríguez
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