Principles to be constituted as a Fund. Fund Model

The Funds that compose the Confederation of Funds for Cooperation and Solidarity have established a series of points, which define the model of Fund for Cooperation that they recognize as such. These features must be shared by all of them, and constitute a kind of "decalogue" to be obligatorily fulfilled by the organisms that want to be considered as a Fund, and join the Confederation:

1. LEGALLY CONSTITUTED NON-PROFIT-MAKING AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION (association or partnership).

2. TERRITORIAL AREA: it must be born in a determined community, with its own identity, so that this framework becomes the unitary reference field of municipalism, with all the specificity that this involves. Consequently, the presencial territorial area of the Fund must be, in the case of today's Spanish State, at least an autonomous region (except for the realities that arise from geographical insularity). As for the European level, the regional scope will be taken into account.

3. MEMBERS: mainly composed by public local administrations, and also by other public administrations, without any a priori exclusion (plural political base). Their membership to the Fund for an indefinite time will be agreed in the Plenary Session of each organism.

4. OBJECT: constitution and management of an economical fund aimed at the financing of projects and solidarity initiatives.

5. COMMON STATUTORY OBJECTIVES:

1. To contribute to the development of Third World countries, by means of the constitution and management of an economical fund which allows a decentralized cooperation, and that promotes a sustainable development.
   
   
2. To administer and manage the economical funds delivered to the Funds for aid projects for the Third World, and for awareness campaigns on development cooperation.
   
   
3. To promote and support the efforts of official institutions, bodies and associations, in order to create, among the citizens, a view that favours a new international economical order.
   
   
4. To boost the citizens' participation in cooperation projects for the Third World, through adequate campaigns and information.
   
   
5. To collaborate so that the minimum earmark of the 0.7% of the GNP for public aid to developing countries comes true, according to the United Nations agreements signed by Spain.
   
   
6. To become a collective ethical voice which denounces any situation committing a serious outrage against Human Rights in the Southern countries, and that can put forward proposed bills and proposed resolutions in favour of solidarity and cooperation in any sphere of political representation.

6. IMPLANTATION: to have the necessary support in the local scope, trying to obtain the rapprochement and support from the social web (associations, social movements, etc.).

7. WORKING STRUCTURE:

• POLITICAL (Executive board, elected by the Members Assembly, without economical remuneration) and
  
  
• TECHNICAL (Technical staff with contract of employment).

8. ACTIVITIES PROGRAMMING: counting in:

- WORKING PLAN (minimum annual) which includes:

• The joint management of the resources of the member authorities aimed at joint solidarity projects or initiatives.
  
  
• To drive the strengthening of the initiatives that promote local development of Southern countries (regardless of their implementation through direct cooperation or not, or through social organizations or local authorities).
  
  
• To promote the strengthening of the role of local authority, and the deepening of local democracy in the South and the North, and of its impact at an international level. Likewise, to favour the rapprochement amongst peoples.
  

- BUDGET: appointing a minimum 90% of budgeted resources for cooperation, awareness and/or emergency activities, and a maximum 10% for management expenses.

9. MANAGEMENT TRANSPARENCY AND CONTROL: guaranteed through the implementation of a yearly external audit.

10. TO FOCUS ITS PHILOSOPHY AND ACTION STRATEGIES ON THE SO CALLED DECENTRALIZED COOPERATION, as it is expressed in the Guide of Decentralized Cooperation, published by the Confederation in the collection "Municipal Cooperation for Development".

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