Situación y retos de la cooperación española para el fortalecimiento de las instituciones públicas

Abstract

This article analyzes the situation and the current challenges of Spanish development assistance aimed at public institutional development. First, we try to define what we mean by the concept of "public institutional development", as against the idea of "increasing organizational resources". Secondly we analyze the quantitative importance of Spanish cooperation granted to such actions based mainly on the 2010 PACI tracking database. Then we the main strengths and weaknesses of our cooperation in this sector, on the basis of semi-open interviews carried out with technical personnel of three public cooperation agencies, 17 NGO and the evaluations carried out by the Directorate- General of planning and evaluation of development policies. The article ends with a series of conclusions and recommendations for the Spanish aid in this sector to be more effective.