• 27 March 2014

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    Category : Interview

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    “Cooperation gets you hooked because you are doing something useful”

    La FIIAPP moviliza cada año a más de mil funcionarios y otros profesionales para transmitir el modelo de la administración pública española a las instituciones de los países donde desarrolla proyectos de cooperación. Actualmente, trece de estos expertos viven en los lugares donde se desarrollan los proyectos durante el tiempo de ejecución. Son los consejeros residentes. Hablamos con uno de ellos, Pablo Ródenas.The FIIAPP mobilizes more than one thousand civil servants and other professionals each year to transmit the Spanish public administration model to the countries where it develops cooperation projects. Currently, thirteen of these experts are living in the places where the projects are being developed during the execution period. They are the resident advisors. We spoke with one of them, Pablo Ródenas.

    “How brave. Going with the entire family…”, one of his colleagues told him while saying goodbye. These are his last days in the FIIAPP headquarters in Madrid. Next destination: Ukraine. Just a few months ago he came back from Turkey. Pablo Ródenas has gotten “hooked” on cooperation on ...

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  • 20 March 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    Egypt, beyond Consumers Day

    Article by Alejandro Bueno, head of the FIIAPP Public Administration and Social Affairs team, published on 3500 Millones, the newspaper El País's blog, on the 15th of March, International Consumer Rights Day.

    21st of January 2014, 8:30 p.m., Terminal 3 of Cairo International Airport. In the midst of a swarm of taxi offers (legal and otherwise), we glimpsed a handwritten sign with our names on it at the exit to the terminal. The pleasant Egyptian man holding it up quickly ushered us into an SUV to take us...

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  • 14 March 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    Egypt and Spain, united by safe consumption

    Two years of support to the Egyptian consumer to modernize its market and its society

    The 15th of March, International Consumer Rights Day, is the closing date of a cooperation project between Egypt and a consortium made up of Spain, Germany and France for consumer protection in this North African country: “Strengthening of the consumer protection network and improvemen...

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  • 07 March 2014

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    Category : Interview

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    “Cooperation in drug policies is essential”

    Entrevista al delegado del Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (PNSD), Francisco de Asís Babín.Interview with the delegate of the National Drug Plan (PNSD), Francisco de Asís Babín.

    The FIIAPP has the support of different public institutions for the development of its drug policy projects at the international level. One of these is the PNSD, a key member in the leadership of COPOLAD, the joint programme between Latin America and the European Union for strengthening and ...

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