Fund model: characteristics and advantages

• A Fund is a non-profit-making organization.
  
  
• It is made up by local public institutions: town councils, county councils, associations of municipalities, province councils, and it also counts on the participation of the autonomous government. All of them as a unit, regardless of the political parties that lead them.
  
  
• It manages an economical fund in a democratical and participatory way, in order to contribute to the total development of the people and the communities in the South, and to the citizen's awareness at a local level.
  
  
• It guarantees the control and transparency of its management, as well as the consensus on its goals and priorities.
  
  
• It limits the administrative and structural expenses to a maximum of the 10% of the available economical resources
  
  
• It guarantees the continuity of the projects, making sure that the funding will not be subject to sudden changes, either in the political field or because of the outbreak of emergency situations in the countries of the South.
  
  
• It directly collaborates with the population of the countries in the South, thus favouring the North-South relation, in order to advance towards the construction of a fairer and more solidary world.
  
  
• It facilitates the work of the local authorities on cooperation issues, without the need for the creation of their own cooperation model in each town council or province council, avoiding duplicities, management expenses, and diverse, and sometimes, incoherent development models
  
  
• It also facilitates the relationship between the administration and the NGO's and grass-roots groups which choose to present their development projects and awareness programmes, avoiding dispersion, and with common grounds.
  
  
• It manages the development projects and actions for impoverished peoples in a joint way, setting criteria that can boost human and sustainable development, supporting larger projects.
  
  
• It provides technical teams to facilitate assessment, control, and transparency of the projects management. .

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