Knowledge management and communication
Communicating the work carried out by the Fund is essential for two groups: on the one hand, to the beneficiary population of the programs, and on the other, to the Spanish public as a means of accountability.
The objective is to make visible and document the fundamental changes brought about by the initiatives implemented. To this end, the communication is based on two fundamental pillars: the extensive work of collecting indicators conducted by the Fund, which provides objective and quantitative data on the progress of the programs, and the concrete experiences of the communities that have benefited from these initiatives.
To publicize these two aspects, the Fund has its own web page within the general domain of AECID, where news on the progress of projects, meetings, and activities organized by the Fund, etc., is published. Throughout 2022, more than 50 news items related to the Fund’s work have been prepared and published on the FCAS website, which can be found here:
In addition, the Fund’s Newsletter is sent periodically to the more than one thousand people registered in the database, a service to which any interested person can subscribe:
Throughout the year, various reports have also been published to bring the reality of water and sanitation closer to other population sectors. Thus, iAgua published an extended unique feature entitled Water and sanitation, a question of rights.
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As part of this objective to publicize the work of the FCAS, the head of the Department, Carmen Jover, participated in March 2022 in the Forum organized by Infolibre on Development Cooperation: water and sanitation as keys to achieving the SDGs. The meeting was also attended by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela; the director of the Acciona.org Foundation, José Gabriel Martín; Mar Rivera, from ONGAWA; and Albert Puig, Professor of Economics and Business Studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and director of the Master’s Degree in Corporate Social Responsibility.
Also, in March, the Fund participated in Somos Cooperación radio program to talk about water as a lever for development and explain the critical aspects of the 2022 World Water Forum.
Publications
There is also a series of publications that allow us to bring together and show, more concisely and visually, the work carried out in each country. These are the «Country Cards 2022», which provide at-a-glance information on the interventions carried out in each country, the beneficiaries, the entities with which we have worked, and the main lines of action in each of them.
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The audiovisual material enables the public to familiarize themselves, with the work carried out by the Water Fund in the various countries in which it collaborates. In this sense, significant work has been carried out to collect the beneficiaries’ testimonies and show what has been achieved in the programs. Today, more than a hundred videos are available to the public, covering practically all the countries in which the Fund has worked.
Microsite in iAgua
As part of the dissemination work of the Water Fund and also intending to make visible the work carried out by other entities that contribute to making Spanish cooperation in the water and sanitation sector a reality, since 2020, the Spanish Cooperation Microsite has been up and running in the iAgua media, where content is published weekly.
The space can be visited here:
