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The Importance of the IBERARCHIVOS Programme in Safeguarding the Documentary Heritage of Ibero-America Cristina Díaz Martínez | Deputy Director of the Spanish State Archives, Iberarchivos

2. Iberarchivos archival projects
Iberarchivos Intergovernmental Committee endorses an Annual
Operative Plan with Managing for Development Results principles. Among
others, the call for grants for archival projects pass every year as a
priority action intended for:
• The preservation and dissemination of the Ibero-American
Documentary Heritage.
• Training and technical assistance in archival field
• Citizens access to archives.
• Improvement in organization, description, conservation and
dissemination of the documentary fonds.
• Impulse of archives on indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples.
• Impulse of archives on Women’s rights.
• Promotion of projects of shared memory of the Ibero-American
peoples.
• Promotion of the iberian archival tradition.
• Professional response to Natural disasters and climate phenomena.
• Development of joint projects in collaboration with other Ibero-
American Cooperation Programmes.
After the Technical Unit Secretary’s office receives the application,
the Secretariat of the Technical Unit and representatives of the
Intergovernmental Committee performs an evaluation of the projects
through a consensus of assessment agreed by all the countries.
In its annual meetings, the Intergovernmental Committee agree to
issue the grants to the best projects through a set of rules of competition
ensuring an equitable distribution of the grants fund between the
countries adhering to the Programme.

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