As stated in its 2007 Statutes, the AECID aspires to be a benchmark for effectiveness in the Spanish cooperation system. Thus, improving aid effectiveness has become an institutional goal of prime importance, underlying its every action.

Achieving better cooperation effectiveness is a daunting challenge because it involves reorienting many processes so that highest priority is given to obtaining development results in our partner countries.

To this end, the Agency makes use of diverse capabilities, both at its Spanish headquarters and abroad, on the basis of a planning framework –  the Master Plan for Spanish Cooperation  – based on the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005).

The technical guidance for this focus on effectiveness is coordinated by the Office for Development Assistance Programming and Quality (UPC), a unit created within the Technical Office as part of the first AECID Management Contract and given the task of promoting “operational planning, together with monitoring and analysis, to improve the quality of aid," among other goals.

For its work in the field of effectiveness, the UPC is supported by the Working Group for Aid Effectiveness and Quality (GTEC), an inter-departmental group that has been active for three years, performing diagnostic analysis, developing technical guidance and helping to extend the ideals of effectiveness throughout the organization.

Important links:

Sections:

1. Office for Development Assistance Programming and Quality
2. Platform for Advance: GTEC
3. Gaining effectiveness through change
4. Implementing the effectiveness agenda in the field