Institutional presence

The Confederation of Funds for Cooperation and Solidarity carried out an important follow-up task during the approval process of Spain's Law on International Development Cooperation, so the text approved by the Spanish Parliament in July 1998, includes some of the amendments proposed to the different parliamentary groups by the Confederation of Funds, in which the importance of decentralized cooperation was pointed out as a way of participation of the different local bodies in development cooperation.

On the other hand, the Confederation got to guarantee the presence of the Cooperation Funds in the Interregional Committee, an organ representing the local, autonomous, and state institutions regarding the coordination of the policies for development cooperation in Spain. So it is provided by the article 4 of the by-law that establishes the composition and functions of that Committee (BOE no. 13; Royal Decree 22/2000 of 14th January):

"d) from the local organizations that manage funds, regarded in their respective budgets as official aid for development, or from supramunicipal bodies which they expressly delegate, particularly the Funds for Cooperation and Solidarity, 19 representatives will be elected by the nationwidest organization, according to their own internal procedures."

Specifically the Funds have 7 representatives, being at present:

• Teo Romero i Hernández, President of the Catalan Fund and Mayor of Santa Margarida de Montbui.
  
  
• Rosa Maria Ostogain Echeverria, President of the Basque Fund and Mayoress of Berriz.
  
  
• Vicent Moreno Montañés, President of the Valencian Fund and Mayor of Castelló de Rugat.
  
  
• Alfredo Novoa Gil, President of the Galician Fund and Deputy Mayor of Oleiros.
  
  
• Bernardí Coll i Martorell, representative of the Majorcan Fund, the Minorcan Fund and the Eivissa and Formentera Fund, and Mayor of Mancor de la Vall.
  
  
• Francisco Pulido Muñoz, President of the Andalusian Fund and of the Cordova Province Council.
  
  
• Miguel Ángel Morales Sánchez, Vicepresident of the Extremaduran Fund and of the Cáceres Province Council.
  

In the Standing Interregional Committee, the Catalan Fund of Development Cooperation is represented.

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