Samenvatting

The following report concerns the bilateral decentralised development cooperation in Spain. The starting point is the international political framework in the field of development cooperation and
the national development cooperation policy, which incorporates the international framework. According to the main priorities of the national government combined with the interests of the NGO PROYDE, the regional public administrations will be analysed. Specifically the aspects that will be compared are: the geographic, sector and transverse priorities, as well as the instruments and modalities through which development cooperation is being put into practice. Moreover, the project-specific requirements of the regional public institutions for subsidies to non-governmental development cooperation actors will be analysed. As a result, a comparative analysis enables the identification of whether the divergent policies
merely constitute differences, or whether those veritably constitute incompatibilities in view of the national policy and the international commitments. A difference can be understood as a diverging aspect, but in accordance with the legal and political framework in the international and national
context. An incompatibility, however, can be understood as a diverging aspect, which would not be an impediment if legal and political parameters of the national and international context had been followed.
Moreover, The specification of the differences or incompatibilities provides for a general panorama for PROYDE of the course which the indirect bilateral development cooperation system in Spain tends to follow In addition, it enables the recognition of to what extent the relation between NGO's and the public institutions could change in the future due to the international and national context requiring the elimination of the incompatibilities between the regional authorities.
Considering the current financial dependence of the NGO PROYDE on the public sector, the comparative analysis enables the selection of the most convenient public institutions that could provide for financial contributions for the NGO's projects.