The director general of Open Government and Cooperation, David Martínez, participated today in the Inter-territorial Commission for Development Cooperation, organized by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ángeles Moreno, in which the Joint Response Strategy for Cooperation was approved Spanish to the Crisis of COVID-19, whose priority is to save lives and strengthen health systems, protect the most vulnerable and recover the socioeconomic sectors in developing countries.To achieve these objectives, the Strategy proposes three responses from the Spanish Cooperation.
An immediate humanitarian response; a multilateral one under the authority of the Secretary General of the United Nations, reorienting contributions to multilateral development agencies and actively contributing to the response of the European Union, G20 and International Financial Institutions; and a bilateral response by reorienting the programs with our partner countries, collaborating with their public administrations and aligned with their priorities and added value of our cooperation.This Strategy represents the joint response of the Spanish Cooperation (State Administration, autonomous communities, local entities, Cooperation and Solidarity funds and that of all those actors who have wished to join it) to articulate a response, from the particularities of each one of them, as efficient and agile as possible to this emergency, to reconstruction and recovery.For its development, it is planned to use all the instruments at its disposal, both through non-reimbursable and reimbursable aid, and to count on the support of the Spanish Cooperation actors, including decentralized cooperation, the private sector, NGDOs and civil society, under the principle that all united, also abroad, we will stop the covid-19.
