Master plan for international cooperation and solidarity 2006-2008

With the Januaryal orientations, values and principles, and the major strategic goals having been established, the third capital element of a Master Plan are the modalities of action, which are the basic instrument for planning the achievement of goals in a stable and predictable way.
Specifically, the following modalities of action, which are flexible and in many cases complementary, are foreseen for the development of the strategic goals:

• Development cooperation of direct municipal initiative.
• Development cooperation of municipal initiative in agreement with other actors.
• Development cooperation by initiative of private non-profit bodies.

5.1. Development cooperation of direct municipal initiative: definition, programmes and resources

Development cooperation of direct municipal initiative is considered to be that which encompasses all the actions for development cooperation and for solidarity, carried out directly and exclusively by Barcelona City Council.
Accordingly, from the standpoint of the series of the project or programme (identification, preparation and formulation, planning of stages, performance, follow-up and assessment of results and of impact), in this case the responsibility of each and every one of the stages is held exclusively by the City Council, always within the provisions of this Master Plan and the rules in force.
Direct cooperation may be carried out by means of the following programmes:

1. Multilateral programmes, in particular for the building of peace and post-armed conflict reconstruction, and support for municipalism, for local democracy and government, and for the entrepreneurial capacity of cities.
2. Direct cooperation through the agreements and accords with specific cities and/or through networks of cities (both cases could include private actors through the beneficiary cities).
3. Programme for raising awareness, fostering citizen solidarity and education for development.

25% of resources will be assigned to direct cooperation during the overall period covered by the Master Plan. Owing to the need to plan the progressive increase of resources three years in advance, this figure may undergo minor variations during some periods.

5.2. Cooperation of concerted municipal initiative: definition, resources and implementation procedure

Concerted development cooperation is seen to be that in which one or more of the basic stages of the cycle of the programme or project (identification, formulation/planning or performance) are carried out in a concerted way, in other words, without the responsibility being held completely by the municipal actors or decision-making bodies.
Throughout the whole period covered by the Master Plan, concerted cooperation may receive 10% of all resources. Owing to the need to plan the progressive increase of the resources three years in advance, this figure may undergo minor variations in some years.
With respect to the procedure, following well-verified experiences and practices of public development cooperation, the award shall be made by means of mechanisms of transparency, concurrence and equality of conditions, either through a public periodic call to establish lists of possible collaborators for each of the programmes, or through public calls on a restricted basis. In order to provide the greatest assurance of consensus, as specified in the section on instruments, some regulating rules and best-practices guides for concerted cooperation will be prepared and made public in autumn 2005.

5.3. Cooperació per al desenvolupament a iniciativa d'ONGS i entitats no lucratives: definició, programes i recursos

Development cooperation at the initiative of NGOs and non-profit private bodies seeks to assure the engaged transformative task of the social fabric, the organisations of civil society and, especially, the non-governmental development organisations.
Consequently, in accordance with the legal obligation and the usual practice, it will be carried out by means of public calls with criteria of concurrence, transparency and equality of opportunities.
Two basic programmes are foreseen:

The development programme in countries of the South will be performed along two lines: pluriannual programmes and annual programmes.
60% of all resources will be assigned to this modality. Owing to the need to plan the progressive increase of the resources three years in advance, this figure may undergo minor variations in some years.
More specifically, the development programme in countries of the South will possess some specific rules for the annual call and for the pluriannual call, as well as for the call for the programme for education and raising awareness about development.
The awareness raising programme and the education for development programme will be assigned 20% of all resources, a figure that may undergo minor variations owing to the need to plan the progressive increase of the resources three years in advance. It will possess specific rules within the annual call.
In all cases it will be sought to lend stability to the normative framework established by the rules. From the procedural and regulatory standpoint, the forms, requirements and follow-up mechanisms will be adapted to the characteristics of each of the calls.

5.4. Other contributions of funds regulated by the Plan

Aside from these three basic modalities of action, the Master Plan foresees two further contributions of funds and regulated lines of action:

1. Humanitarian and emergency aid, which will be coordinated within the framework of the Catalan Committee for Humanitarian and Emergency Aid, and which will have the basic purpose of contributing from the city to the post-natural disaster and/or post-armed conflict reconstruction tasks in coordination with the United Nations. A maximum of 2.5% of the annual budget will be assigned to it.
2. The expenses of management and assessment of projects, programmes and modalities. In accordance with international practice, assessment is conceived in the twofold sense of analysis of the impact of the policies and actions on site, and of lessons learned and improvement of the policy itself on the basis of such lessons.

5.5. Summary chart of modalities, programmes and percentage of resources to be assigned