17/12/2025
The new text also redirects the Foundation's purpose towards the internationalisation of public administrations.
The Royal Decree setting out the new status of FIAP has just been published, thus completing the transformation process that the Foundation for the Internationalisation of Public Administrations undertook almost two years ago, which has seen the renewal of its governing bodies and brand and the strengthening of its internal control systems.
The text formally endorses important aspects towards which the Foundation’s work had been evolving in recent years and incorporates as its main new feature the splitting of its mandate into development cooperation and external action, with reference to the Spanish Cooperation Master Plan on the one hand and the External Action Strategy on the other. This provides an appropriate framework for the more than 100 projects that the organisation implements each year in the areas of justice, security, social cohesion, economic development, the green agenda and digitalisation, among others.
The new statute defines the Foundation’s purpose as promoting and managing the participation of public administrations in Spanish and European cooperation programmes and projects, focusing them on development outcomes, and defines its geographical scope of action, framing it within foreign policy and the Spanish Cooperation Master Plan, in line with the Foundation’s Strategic Plan 2025-2028.
It regulates the political orientation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and develops technical cooperation as its objectives, in particular public technical cooperation, the internationalisation of administrations and methodological added value with whole-of-government and regional approaches.
The new statute also formalises the change of name, so that we are now officially the Foundation for the Internationalisation of Public Administrations, F.S.P., and recognises the importance of internal auditing and knowledge and learning management.
