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The Master Plan must establish the geographic priorities for each period in keeping with the following priorities laid down under the Cooperation Act:
- The countries and peoples of the Mediterranean, and especially those of the Maghreb.
- The countries and peoples of Latin America.
- The countries and peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
- And all such other countries with which Catalonia has had or currently has special historical, social, economic, cultural or migratory ties.
The 2003-2006 Master Plan for Development Cooperation established three criteria for specifying the geographic priorities provided for under the Act:
- The degree of Catalan cooperation and capacity in any given country.
- The Human Development Index (HDI) drawn up by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- The volume of immigration to Catalonia and the possibilities for co-development.
Pursuant to these criteria, after taking into account the available material, human and economic resources and studying current cooperation capacity in Catalonia, it was proposed that 70% of all resources allocated in 2006 be devoted to the nine strategic development goals in the following countries:
- Mediterranean: Algeria and Morocco.
- Central America and the Caribbean: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
- South America: Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Senegal.
- Countries in conflict: Each year a given country or region in conflict may be prioritised, subject to a report by the Council on Development
Cooperation.
Exceptionally, annual plans and country plans may earmark funds for countries not included on this list, when, as a result of duly justified, specific and extraordinary circumstances, concrete, finite actions are required. |
Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation 
