Fondo Andaluz de Municipios para la Solidaridad Internacional

The Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity (FAMSI), created early in the year 2000, has the intention of strengthening the development cooperation promoted from the local bodies of Andalusia (municipalities, "mancomunidades", and province councils), and supporting the promotion of solidarity as a generalized attitude in the Andalusian society. 25 bodies took part in its constitution, but it started to grow up quickly in a geographically very extensive community. Together with the associated institutions, the FAMSI counts on a network of institutional collaborator agencies (Andalusian Autonomous Government, Saving Banks) and associative (Andalusian Federation of Towns and Provinces, Coordinating Committee of Andalusia NGO's, Confederation of Residents' Associations of Andalusia, Association of Municipal Radio Stations and Television Channels of Andalusia, etc.).

The principles that govern the FAMSI's activities are the following:

• To defend a socially fair model of development which promotes the redistribution of wealth and the guarantee of welfare for all mankind.
  
  
• To fight for an environmentally healthy model of development which protects nature, assuring the use of resources in a sustainable way and their preservation for future generations.
  
  
• To demand individual and collective human rights, beginning with the rights to life, health, and education.
  
  
• To give special support to measures, actions, and proposals against racism and xenophobia, and in favour of the equality of opportunity for men and women.

These principles are carried out through the implementation of working lines such as:

a) Assessment and detailed account of decentralized cooperation in Andalusia in the last years.

b) Impulse of the starting of development initiatives coordinated both with institutions associated through direct cooperation and with NGO's.

c) Implementation of an extensive awareness and communication programme with the participation of social institutions and agents.

d) Development of training activities that provide an improvement in managing quality and the towns' commitment to international cooperation.

After one year's work, the Andalusian Fund has already 50 members, amongst which are 7 out of the 8 province councils of Andalusia.

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