Government of Spain

Ana Alonso Giganto, Ambassador-at-Large for Feminist Foreign Policy

As a representative of the government of Spain, being a SheDecides Champion means to me working daily to ensure that women and girls in all their diversity enjoy their human rights around the world. Women's sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to the full exercise of all other women's rights. Spain is a reference in the defence of sexual and reproductive health and rights at the national level, and has adopted a proactive approach in the defence of these rights at the international level, integrating these principles in its feminist foreign and cooperation policy.

How we are working so SheDecides

Spain firmly supports women’s sexual and reproductive rights and their bodily autonomy in all multilateral forums. It advocates for access to comprehensive sexual education, safe and legal abortion and quality healthcare. Through international development cooperation, Spain promotes gender equality, strengthens health systems, and ensures that women and girls can access free and informed decisions about their bodies and lives. Spain’s commitment is clear: empowering women is essential for sustainable development, human rights and global justice.

UNFPA Supplies Partnerships

Since it was launched in 2007, the aim of this initiative is to provide safe, effective and reliable supplies to improve the sexual and reproductive health of population in developing countries as well as capacity building at national and human level to reinforce family planning access systems. It focuses on 54 low-income countries, with high maternal mortality rates and low use of contraceptives; it also provides support to reproductive health services in humanitarian crisis. This initiative is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID, by its Spanish acronym) since 2013 and has received a total contribution (2013-2025) of €5,500,000.

Skills for Life

Its aim is to provide capacity building and equip adolescents and young persons of specific groups with the necessary information and knowledge to take informed decision on their health and sexual and reproductive rights through extracurricular Comprehensive Sexual Education. The framework of this initiative is UNFPA’s Global Strategy for adolescents and young persons. AECID has been funding this initiative since 2022 in Colombia and Ethiopia and will do so also in Tunisia. Its total contribution (2022-2024) has been €681,000.

WeDecide

Global initiative for persons with disabilities that promotes their rights, social inclusion, gender equality and equal opportunities. One of its aims is non-discrimination regarding sexual and reproductive health for women and adolescents in vulnerable and marginal situations, in particular for those with disabilities. In addition to achievements at global and regional level, reference must be made to the implementation of programmes that address the sexual and reproductive rights of women with disabilities in Morocco, Ecuador and Mozambique. This programme has been funded by AECID since its inception in 2015 and has received a total contribution (2015-2024) of €5,900,000.

Family Planning for women and adolescents in primary health care centres

This project is being implemented in different locations in Ethiopia within the framework of the the 2024 Health+ Programme of AECID. The funding of the project began in 2024, with a total contribution of €700,000.

AECID Annual Call for grants for NGDOs

Within this annual call for grants for the implementation of sustainable development cooperation projects, there are projects related to SRHR.

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