Partnerships

Different actors involved in the water sector, integrating public and private actors

Helping to achieve the Goals of the 2030 Agenda

SDG 17 aims to foster a global partnership for development that will help to achieve all the Goals proposed in the 2030 Agenda. To achieve this, partnerships must be created with the different actors involved in the water sector, integrating public and private actors, mobilising both financial resources and technical expertise and capacities, using various means and instruments such as technical cooperation. One of the strengths of the Spanish Cooperation and the FCAS programmes is that they take advantage of the experience and excellence of the leading Spanish institutions in the water sector to cooperate through studies, field visits, technical reports and training in Latin America.

Since its inception, the FCAS has worked to create strategic partnerships with key national, regional and international actors and networks within the sector, including:

Strategic partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), which combines the AECID’s development agency approach with the IADB’s technical and management experience in large infrastructure programmes, which also has an important presence and dialogue in the region’s development and water agenda.
Support for Spanish public companies such as Tragsatec, the public water company EMASESA (Seville) or NILSA, the company responsible for water treatment in Navarre.
Collaboration with research organisations such as the Hydrographic Studies Centre (CEDEX), the Spanish Geographic Mining Institute (IGME) and the New Water Technologies Centre (CENTA), as well as with universities and study centres such as the universities of Alcalá, A Coruña and Alicante, among others.
Interaction with Ibero-American water institutions, and especially with the three main regional networks: the Ibero-American Water Directors Conference (CODIA), the Climate Change Offices Network (RIOCC) and the Ibero-American Meteorological and Hydrological Service Directors Conference (CIMHET), with which the Central American Lightning Detection Network is operated, with the assistance of the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).
Participation from civil society, through Non-Governmental Organisations such as Action Against Hunger, or ONGAWA, with whom various diagnoses on the human rights approach to water and sanitation have been carried out. In 2021, work has been carried out on the development of a self-diagnosis tool that will allow municipalities to review their degree of compliance with Human Rights to Water and Sanitation and to establish a roadmap to gradually achieve them.
Co-participation in international initiatives such as Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), led by former water rapporteur Catarina de Alburquerque, which drives the political agenda in the region; or the launch of the Latin American Water Observatory (OLAS), which will provide a tool for monitoring SDG Goal 6, an initiative in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

The work carried out with each of these actors is detailed below.

Inter- American Development Bank (IDB)

Centre for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works (CEDEX)

TRAGSATEC

Spanish Geological Mining Institute (IGME)

Empresa Municipal de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento de Aguas de Sevilla (EMASESA)

Official Credit Institute (ICO)

University of A Coruña