THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Interview with the Chairman and General Manager of the Chilean Council for Transparency
According to the 'International Transparency' organisation, Chile is ranked 23rd in the list of the least corrupt countries and the Council is aiming to keep moving up the scale. The organisation's chairman Jorge Jaraquemada and its General Manager Raúl Ferrada visited the FIIAPP this week to secur...
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"We must help middle-income countries. 70% of poverty is there"
For Gonzalo Robles Orozco, this is a bittersweet moment to be heading the General Secretariat of International Cooperation for Development.The Spanish Cooperation Agency that he leads recently celebrated its anniversary at a time in which the crisis has required...
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FIIAPP plays one of the most prominent and active roles in the implementation of projects related to this field within the framework of the European Union.
The European Union's concern about mitigating CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) risks has triggered the creation of Centres of Excellence (CoE) in the African Atlantic Façade, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Africa, the countr...
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"As we were saying yesterday". Returning to Guatemala evokes the words of Fray Luis de León, the poet from Granada, to his students upon returning from five years in prison. Evidently this allusion is more of a personal evocation than a palpable reality in a country that is changing.
The presence of EUROsociAL in Guatemala coincides with an interesting investigation regarding Spanish cooperation in development. Guatemala was precisely one of the countries covered in the study. Starting with the idea that a budget cut is not the best news for cooperation and, moreover, that si...
