AECID - Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo

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Many of those involved in co-operation participate in the Azahar Programme, with varying procedures and tools to implement their strategies in co-operation for development. There is thus a need for objective criteria which make it possible to establish clearly whether a given action comes within its scope.

Thus Azahar incorporates actions which must simultaneously take in the three basic principles of the Programme’s constituent declaration (Point 1): any of its seven fields of action (Point 2): and the guidelines put down by the Development Aid Committee in the field of environmental aid (Point 3).

1. The basic principles or criteria to which action implemented in the framework of the Azahar Programme must respond simultaneously:

• The development of local populations and the improvement of their living conditions in the framework of Spanish policy on international co-operation for development and its aim to fight all forms of poverty.
• Protection of the environment, and conservation of natural resources.
• The strengthening of organisations and institutions, enhancing local planning and management capacities.

2. The Programme includes action in the fields of:

• Soil conservation
• Sustainable water management
• Renewable energies and efficient energy-use
• Sustainable tourism
• Sustainable production
• Environmental cleanup
• Environmental planning and management

3. According to the DAC, an activity is oriented toward environmental sustainability when designed to improve the physical and/or biological environment of a recipient country, region or group, or it includes specific measures to integrate environmental concerns via a series of development objectives by creating institutions and/or developing capacities.

Thus the documentation on the activity must explicitly promote aid to the environment. The activity must also take in specific measures intended to protect or enhance the physical and/or biological environment it affects, and to correct existing environmental damage, or it must contemplate concrete measures to develop or enhance environment policies, legislation and administration, or other organisations responsible for protecting the environment.

Finally, a relation has been established between areas of action and the DAC codes, to facilitate the statistical processing of contributions. Thus, for an activity to be incorporated into the Azahar Programme, it must be unmistakeably and directly referenced to one of the following sectors:

Picture of sectors of performance and codes CAD (Format pdf - Tablet in zip)