Introduction

The Master Plan for Development Cooperation is the main strategic planning tool created under the Development Cooperation Act to help the Government of Catalonia’s administrative bodies allocate funds and establish the geographic and sector-specific priorities to be respected and developed in the subsequent annual plans and to serve as general guidelines for development cooperation policy as a whole. It operates on a four-year basis.

The first Master Plan for Development Cooperation was unanimously approved by the Parliament of Catalonia on 19th February 2003. It was drafted after an extensive analytical, informational and consultative process involving the participation of the diverse parliamentary groups and Catalan cooperation agents, acting through the Catalan Federation of Development NGOs, the Catalan Development Cooperation Fund and the Government of Catalonia’s different ministries, as represented in the Advisory Council on Cooperation.