The Cooperation Development Act, unanimously passed by the Parliament of Catalonia in 2001, establishes and regulates the Government of Catalonia’s activity in the sphere of development cooperation and international solidarity understood as public goods to whose attainment Catalan society is committed.
The Catalan Development Cooperation Agency (ACCD), set up in October 2003, is the body responsible for implementing and managing the Government of Catalonia’s development cooperation policy and operates under the aegis of the Department of the President.
The Catalan Development Cooperation Agency’s by-laws were approved in 2003 after deliberation of the consultative bodies established under the Development Cooperation Act and define the agency’s nature, structure and functions.
The Master Plan for Development Cooperation lays down the general plans for the Government of Catalonia’s policy and activities in the sphere of development cooperation for a period of four years and establishes the projected fund allocations and geographic and sector-specific priorities to be further developed in the subsequent annual plans.
The annual development cooperation plans set out the agenda for the Government of Catalonia’s policy and activities in the sphere of development cooperation for a given year and further develop the goals, priorities and fund allocations established in the four-year Master Plan.
