Fondo Galego de Cooperación e Solidariedade

The Galician Fund for Cooperation and Solidarity was founded, after a wide collective reflection, in December 1997, being convinced that it was necessary to favour a qualitative leap in the cooperation dynamics driven from the municipalist movement. The goal of the Fund is to democratize cooperation and make it possible for any local body to involve its population in humanitarian activities.

The main objectives are to finance concrete cooperation programmes, and to promote social awareness campaigns addressed to the population.

Its actions are divided in two areas:

a) Management

b) Awareness: carrying out now an itinerant exhibition to promote the citizens' awareness, as well as several events and conferences on the cooperation task of the Fund.

In spite of its recent formation, the Galician Fund has reached a wide political and demographical representativeness that places it in an excellent position to increase the influence of municipalism in the field of solidarity, and to encourage the social support to cooperation policies with developing countries. So then, nowadays the Galician Fund has 84 members, of which 80 are town councils concentrating 56% of Galician population, having also the special collaboration of the seven big towns, that have recently subscribed an agreement through which the Galician Fund will manage their whole cooperation budget. Likewise, the Galician Fund has a collaboration agreement with the Autonomous Government of Galicia, and it also counts on the support of the Galician trade unions by means of a public declaration.

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