Decentralised cooperation represents approximately 15 percent of total Spanish ODA. To its significant quantitative reach must also be added the important institutional development which it has experienced in recent years through autonomous legislation, strategic planning, the creation of new agencies and the opening of new offices and expatriation of personnel. The debate over the effectiveness of aid that has emerged in the international arena in recent years, and which crystallised in the Paris Declaration, is conceived by and for states.
Even if moves have been made to incorporate civil society into the debate, there is still little sign of serious efforts to include sub-state actors in the process of reflection. In the Spanish case, the debate over aid effectiveness, along with other questions, is fuelling a growing level of analysis and increasing numbers of proposals regarding the role decentralised cooperation should play in the overall framework of Spanish development aid.
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