Spain

In June 2025, the Spanish Government approved new voluntary contributions totalling 7.25 million Euros, managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Secretariat of State for International Cooperation. Of this amount, the most relevant to SRHR is the allocation of 6.5 million Euros to UNFPA to promote sexual and reproductive health, women’s and girls’ rights, and the eradication of harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation – in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and 5. The following month, the Spanish Government approved an additional allocation of almost 62 million Euros to strengthen its multilateral cooperation through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) with key international organisations in areas such as climate change, gender, migration, food security and humanitarian aid. Of this additional amount, the most relevant to SRHR includes the disbursement of 5 million Euros to UN Women, to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and of 4.3 million to UNFPA, focused on sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights and reducing maternal mortality.

These contributions are in addition to those previously approved in 2025, totalling 150 million Euros be distributed among 42 multilateral organisations, and are in line with the Spanish Cooperation Master Plan 2024-2027 and the 2030 Agenda. They reinforce multilateralism, a feminist approach and sustainable justice in Spanish cooperation policy and in the context of the Financing for Development Conference held in Seville between 30 June and 3 July 2025.

Estimates indicate that decentralised cooperation would once again account for around 10% of total Spanish ODA. The Catalonia and the Basque Country are consolidating their position as the largest contributors to SRHR, given respective support to UNFPA Supplies, We Decide and GBV programmes in Libya, Palestine and Senegal.

The Spanish Government is developing a Feminist Cooperation Strategy within the framework of the reform of Spanish Cooperation promoted by the new Law on Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Global Solidarity, approved in February 2023. This law enshrines the gender perspective as a cross-cutting and distinctive element in Spanish cooperation and establishes as priority objectives closing gender gaps, combating all forms of gender-based violence, promoting the empowerment of women and girls, and protecting sexual and reproductive rights in partner countries. To be noted that the Spanish Government is a SheDecides champion.

The Spanish Government has also continued to view SRHR as an essential component of its broader Feminist Foreign Policy. On 15 September 2025, at the meeting “Defending equality and peace: 30 years after the World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995”, organised in Madrid by the Women’s Institute together with several CSOs, the Ambassador on Special Mission for Feminist Foreign Policy, Ana María Alonso Giganto, recalled that this year we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 1325, in which the peace and security agenda included a gender perspective, and stated that “the key idea of our feminist foreign policy revolves around this, peace from a feminist point of view, but also to promote relations abroad in which women’s rights, starting with sexual and reproductive rights, are integrated into all documents adopted abroad, which also reflect our actions there.”

In May 2025, Spain also launched its Global Health Strategy 2025-2030, jointly approved by the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs. This roadmap reinforces Spain’s international commitment to improving global health through an inclusive, sustainable and human rights-based approach. The strategy’s strategic objectives include promoting health and well-being from a life-cycle perspective, with a particular focus on guaranteeing SRHR. With this strategy, Spain becomes the fifth country in the European Union to adopt a specific global health strategy, aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the principles of equity, social justice, sustainability and international cooperation. In this context the Spanish government also increased the contribution to World Health Organisation (WHO) by 5.25 million Euros, as part of a broader commitment of 60 million. Moreover, this year, Spain’s commitment to global health entered a new phase with the country’s election to the WHO Executive Board for the period 2025-2028, after almost two decades of absence.