Fondo Extremeño Local de Cooperación al Desarrollo

El The Extremaduran Local Fund for Development Cooperation (FELCODE), constituted in March 2002, is a non-profit organization composed by local public institutions of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, with the participation of other public and private bodies of this region.

Its principal objectives are the following:

• To contribute, from the Extremaduran local scale, to the development of the countries in the South, by means of the constitution of an economical fund.
  
  
• To support projects and programmes that promote a sustainable development in these countries, with criteria of equality, mutual collaboration, and respect for the cultures and identities of each community.
  
  
• To foster and support the efforts of public institutions and private bodies of any kind which operate in Extremadura, in order to create a climate of public opinion favouring the promotion of a juster, healthier and more solidary new international economical order.
  
  
• To boost the citizens' participation in solidary cooperation for development.
  
  
• To collaborate so that the minimum earmark of the 0.7% of GNP for public aid to developing countries comes true, according to the United Nations agreements signed by Spain.

In the framework of these goals, the Extremaduran Local Fund develops its activities in three areas:

a) Development projects and initiatives: encouraging, as a priority, initiatives that
promote municipalism, decentralization, citizens' participation, local development,
human and peoples' rights and sustainable development, trying to approach the
structural causes of poverty.

b) Awareness and education for development: contributing to keep the public opinion informed on the reality of poverty in the world, and the causes and structures which perpetuate it.

c) Humanitarian and emergency aid: supporting the coordination of efforts between municipalities and "diputaciones", and the Autonomous administration, financial bodies, NGO's and the society in general, in order to strengthen the capacity for humanitarian and emergency action.

At present, the Extremaduran Local Fund has 119 members, amongst which are the "Diputaciones" of Badajoz and of Cáceres.

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