Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation

Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
AECID Headquarters in Madrid
Agency overview
Formed	11 November 1988; 35 years ago (1988-11-11)
Preceding agencies	Institute for Ibero-American Cooperation Spanish-Arab Institute of Culture
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Agency executives	Secretary of State for International Cooperation, President Director-General for Sustainable Development Policies, Vice President Antón Leis García, Director
Website	aecid.es

The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) (Spanish: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) is a Spanish autonomous agency responsible for the management of the Government international development cooperation policy.

Its original name was Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), but Royal Decree 1403/2007, of 26 October, amended its Statute and gave AECID its current name. AECID is a public body under the aegis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via the State Secretariat for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean (SECIPIC).

The Agency is in charge of designing, implementing and managing development cooperation projects and programmes, whether directly, with its own resources, or through collaboration with other national and international bodies and non-governmental organizations.^[1] According to the OECD, Spain’s total ODA (USD 4.2 billion, preliminary data) increased in 2022, mostly due to in-donor refugee costs. ODA represented 0.3% of GNI.^[2]