THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Carmen Comas-Mata, director of the advisory board of the Ombudsman's Office, talks to us about the importance of cooperation.
Carmen Comas-Mata with Antonio Mora, former coordinator of projects in Kazakhstan and ArmeniaIn my extensive experience in charge of international relations at the Ombudsman's Office, which is also the national institution concerned with human rights under terms of the United Nations Organisation, I have been able to see the importance of cooperating in human rights first-h...
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According to the Ibero-American Secretariat General (SEGIB), South-South cooperation, in practice, is regarded as “a form of independent cooperation that offers strategic partnerships, under conditions of horizontality, between equals, to achieve common goals”. To celebrate the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, we interviewed SEGIB's Social Cohesion and South-South Cooperation Coordinator, Martín Rivero. His work is focused on the day-to-day aspects of projects from and for the South.
What is South-South cooperation?
It's the horizontal cooperation that countries in the South, in the broad sense of the word, undertake among themselves to try to resolve some of their development dilemmas with solutions applicable to thei... -
El día 8 de septiembre, se celebra el Día del Cooperante. The 8th of September is the International Volunteers Day. Thousands of professionals, through their work, are fighting against poverty, for sustainable development and a fairer world. Nearly three thousand of them, according to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), are Spaniards. One of them is Santiago García-Noblejas, Chief Inspector of the National Police. He has worked on international cooperation projects with the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP) since 2002 and, as he himself recognises, has been interested in the international sector for nearly his entire life. In this interview, he tells us about his experiences with FIIAPP and his experiences in the world of international cooperation.
Santiago García-NoblejasHow many countries have you visited whilst working on FIIAPP projects?
With FIIAPP projects, just three. I have implemented projects as a coordinator. At first, I was called a PAA, which means Pre-Accession Adviser, and later I was called an RTA, ... -
After a long professional career working in customs and border matters at the National Crime Agency (NCA), Geoff took over the reins of SEACOP a year ago, a project he helped form seven years prior.
Where did the idea for the SEACOP project come from?
The idea arose in 2000, but it was in 2009 that the European Commission put together a small group of experts from the Commission itself and proposed that we travel to South America and the Caribbean to identify ways an...
