09/12/2025
Alignment with feminist foreign policy and feminist cooperation strategy, strengthening public technical cooperation as part of the State's external action, and greater mobilisation of regional and local public administrations are among the priorities for next year.
The standing committee of the Foundation for the Internationalisation of Public Administrations (FIAP) met today at the Foundation’s headquarters to review the main results for 2025 and the work plan for 2026, as well as to evaluate the administrative and financial management for the year.
The chair of the Standing Committee of the Board of Trustees, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Eva Granados, highlighted the significant added value that FIAP brings to the implementation of projects with public administrations, particularly through its focus on sustainable and inclusive development outcomes.
The director of the Foundation, Francisco Tierraseca, provided an update on the implementation status of the Equality Plan and outlined the main points of the Foundation’s recently drafted Guide to Feminist Mainstreaming in Public Technical Cooperation Projects 2025-2028. The director highlighted as a positive development the seven percentage point increase in the mobilisation of women from administrations on short-term missions in the last year, although they still account for less than 40 per cent of the total number of public personnel mobilised abroad.
He also highlighted the progress made in generating and supporting international networks of public administrations, which are key to the sustainability of FIAP’s development results, and the substantial increase in projects in the areas of social, economic and ecological transition over the last year.
The Commission has highlighted the importance of the joint project assessment committee, which was set up a year ago with representation at the level of directorates-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and representatives of the ministries or public entities related to the projects evaluated in each session.
It has also taken note of the contributions made by the Foundation to the Summit between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States held in November in Colombia and to the proposal for the Global Europe instrument for the European Union’s next multiannual financial framework 2028-2034.
FIAP expects to close the year with an implementation volume of €54 million and will strengthen its legal certainty through digitisation processes in the coming months.
The Standing Committee, chaired by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and composed of the Secretaries of State for European Union Affairs, Justice, Security, Equality and the Eradication of Violence against Women, and Territorial Policy, together with the Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, exercises the functions delegated by the full Board of Trustees.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees will meet next week to endorse the 2026 work plan.
