Canary Islands distribute 4.32 million among 59 development cooperation projects

The Vice-Ministry of Foreign Action of the Government of the Canary Islands has definitively resolved the 2026 public call for grants for international development cooperation projects, awarding 4,320,000 euros distributed among 59 projects with a ceiling of 80,000 euros per initiative. The decision was signed by the Vice-Minister José Luis Perestelo Rodríguez on October 27, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) No. 225, of November 11, 2026, in section III of Other Resolutions, reference 3897 (pp. 40798 to 40804). The resolution concludes the administrative process.

The framework: from the June call to the October closing

The guidelines and the call were published in the BOC on June 3, 2026, with an application period open from June 4 to July 2. The evaluation, in accordance with the seventeenth guideline, concluded on September 18, 2026, with approval by the Evaluation Committee. The Vice-Minister’s Resolution No. 334/2026 published the provisional resolution on September 25—granted, reserved, and excluded—with ten business days to accept or appeal; the appeals did not modify the scores.

The procedure is governed by Decree 36/2009, of March 31, and by the General Grants Law 38/2003, of November 17. The authority to grant the funds corresponds to the President of the Government and is delegated to the Vice-Minister by Decree 159/2019, of August 30. Payment may be 100% advanced, according to the Government Agreement of March 26, 2020.

Who receives the aid

Annex I distinguishes two blocks: 29 projects in Africa, totaling 2,000,000 euros, and 30 projects in the rest of the world, with 2,320,000 euros.

• Africa: Fundación Canaria Farrah (84 points; €80,000), Fundación ECCA Social with two projects (83 and 80 points; €80,000 each), Fundación Alianza por los Derechos, la Igualdad y la Solidaridad Internacional (82; €79,999.99), Asoc Intercultural Afrocanarias Diakhase with two projects (80 and 73; €79,990 each), ONG Nutrición Sin Fronteras (79; €80,000), Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife (76; €80,000), Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias with two projects (74 and 73; €80,000 each), Cruz Roja Española (75; €60,000), Fundación UNICEF Comité Español (70; €56,923), Universidad de La Laguna (71; €77,650) and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (68; €79,520).
• Rest of the world: Bosco Global (86 points, the highest score; €80,000), Social Innovation Cluster for Change (SIC4CHANGE) (83; €80,000), Solidaridad Médica España ONGD (82; €75,000), Médicos del Mundo (80; €80,000), Fundación UNICEF Comité Español (79; €80,000), Fundación Summa Humanitate with two projects (78 and 76), Asociación CESAL with two projects (77 and 75), Aldeas Infantiles SOS de España (76), Manos Unidas (73; €79,995.60), Fundación Entreculturas-Fe y Alegría (73), Fundación Pedro Zerolo with two projects (65 and 62), Fundación Energía Sin Fronteras (74; €68,209.48) and Psicólogos Sin Fronteras España (58; €23,101.83), among other entities.

Thirty-three projects on reserve and one exclusion

Annex II lists 33 applications on the reserve list: they exceed 50 points but there is insufficient budget. Among them are Fundación Canaria General de la Universidad de La Laguna (67; €79,153), Asociación Universidad Sin Fronteras (67; €71,000), Fundación Vicente Ferrer (66; €79,999.99), Fundación Canaria El Buen Samaritano (66), Fundación SAMU (66), Médicos del Mundo (66; €80,000), Aldeas Infantiles SOS de España (65), Fundación Energía Sin Fronteras (65), Fundación Canaria FUNCCET (65), REMAR Canarias (61) and the Federación Canaria de Municipios (52; €80,000). Annex III excludes a single application, SubCoop_2026/0028 (Asoc Islas del Atlántico), for not reaching 50 points.

Deadlines and appeals

The resolution exhausts the administrative route. An appeal for reversal (recurso de reposición) may be filed before the Vice-Ministry of Foreign Action within one month from the day following its publication, or a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands within two months; if a reversal appeal is filed, the judicial route cannot be pursued until its express resolution or presumed dismissal.

The distribution consolidates Canarian cooperation entities as executors of public funds in a cycle where the call closes with 4.32 million committed and another 33 initiatives, valued at over two million euros, pending funding. For the third sector and cooperation partners, the reserve list marks the real margin for budget expansion should additional credits be enabled.

Source: Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, no. 225, of November 11, 2026, section III. Other Resolutions, pp. 40798-40804 (official reference: 3897).