13/12/2024
This meeting marks the culmination of the first phase of the Foundation's transformation process initiated in January 2024, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation assumed its presidency.
Following this plenary meeting of the Board of Trustees, the new statute of the Foundation was ready for the opinion of the Council of State and its approval by the Council of Ministers. A new code of ethics and a new brand were also approved.
The full Board of Trustees approved the accounts for 2023, with an unqualified report from the IGAE, which brings the Foundation’s accountability up to date.
A new roadmap with a double objective: to serve the external action of the Spanish public sector ─on the basis of Law 2/2014 on Foreign Action and Service─ and development cooperation, as established in Law 1/2023 on Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Global Solidarity. This framework establishes that the FIIAPP must adapt its role in the promotion and management of the participation of the administrations to the Master Plan for Spanish Cooperation. The Foundation thus culminates its transformation process, transcending its traditional role of development cooperation and “Spanishizing” its action by aligning its role as an implementing agency of delegated cooperation of the European Union and the Spanish foreign action strategy.
The increased mobilization of regional and local public administrations, feminist cooperation, the cross-cutting approaches of the Master Plan and the joint work with AECID will also have a prominent place in the coming years.
At this meeting, preceded by a preparatory meeting of the Permanent Commission – chaired by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and with a renewed composition in February 2024 – the report on activities for 2023 was reviewed and the accounts for the same year were approved, thus returning to the usual cycle of rendering of accounts. 2023 closed with an income figure of 59,184,000 euros. The 2024 accounts are expected to be prepared in the first quarter of 2025. With regard to the new year, the revenue forecast would reach 65 million euros.
The Board of Trustees has also approved a new visual identity for the Foundation, simpler and more integrated into the Spanish Cooperation system. The new brand will be presented to the public in the coming months.
The FIIAPP currently executes 118 institutional cooperation projects in 114 countries, with an average annual execution of 70 million euros. Its team is made up of 300 people, mobilizing more than 620 professionals from 180 public sector institutions.
