Euskal Fondoa- Association of Basque Cooperating Local Bodies

The Basque Fund is the main reference to Basque cooperation for development of a municipal basis. After a discussion and reflection process with a wide participation of cooperating institutions, in 1996 the present Association of Basque Cooperating Local Bodies- Basque Fund was founded, marking definitively its municipalist vocation in the field of International Cooperation for Development.

The goals of the Basque Fund are:

a) Promotion of cooperation for development: offering an advicing system for local authorities on cooperating action, developing intermunicipalist projects, and carrying out training seminars addressed to political and technical managers of cooperation.

b) Civic awareness: carried out by town councils in collaboration with other local solidarity agents, by means of information and awareness campaigns which divulge the principles of solidarity cooperation among Basque citizens

c) Institutional coordination: by establishing and promoting coordination and collaboration relations between cooperating institutions in the Basque, state and international area for developing joint actions.

With a plural composition from both the political and the territorial point of view, at present it gathers 84 local bodies representing more than 80% of the population of the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country.

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