RT Journal Article
T1 ODA in Galicia (Spain). The importance of the fisheries sector and the cultural priority
A1 Piñeiro Antelo, Ángeles
A1 Durán Villa, Francisco Ramón
A1 Santos Solla, Xosé Manuel
K1 ODA
K1 Fishing
K1 Galicia
K1 Spain
K1 African Lusophony
K1 Priorities of cooperation
K1 Official Development Aid
AB This article analyses the motivations, priorities and financing of Galician Official Development Aid (ODA) in relation to Spanish ODA. We will focus mainly on the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP), paying special attention to the cases of Cape Verde and Mozambique, both priorities for the Galician cooperation programs, due to their linguistic proximity and the fact that fishing takes on a significant role. To understand the orientations of Galician ODA, it is important to consider three priorities, geographical, sectoral and cultural.Fishing is relevant in any of these priorities, as a strategic sector for the economy of Galicia and Portuguesespeaking countries due to the linguistic proximity between Galician and Portuguese. Therefore, there is a willingness to project regional interests in foreign actions, although always coordinated along the main Spanish and European cooperation lines. However, the decentralised policy of Galician cooperation, characterised in economic terms by its weakness, has encountered certain difficulties in developing its strategies. The maindifficulty lies in the small size of Galician Non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs), which are unable to manage large projects, while bigger NGDOs manage a large part of the cooperation funds, with national or international interests that do not always coincide with the interests of Galicia. In this article we will show that, despite these drawbacks, the fishing orientation of ODA in Galicia is still relevant, and cooperationwith Portuguese-speaking countries is also unique in the Spanish context. However, it is necessary to strengthen a regional vision that can generate more benefits for both the donor region and the receiving country, as well as helping the local population to better understand the meaning and benefits generated by ODA.
PB Elsevier
YR 2019
FD 2019-03-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32170
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32170
LA eng
NO Piñeiro Antelo, MA; Durán Villa, FR. & Santos, X (2019). ODA in Galicia (Spain). The importance of the fisheries sector and the cultural priority. Marine Policy, vol 107
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026