Feminist cooperation challenges the androcentric and patriarchal development model, which is present in many cooperation contexts and which, with neoliberal developmentalism, is based on the paternalism and/or extractivism imposed by the system of colonial domination, with a very strong and special impact on the lives of women and their rights.

From Feminist Foreign Policy, its cooperation, humanitarian action and education for global citizenship, it is fundamental to reinforce the principle of policy coherence towards a new paradigm of sustainable development based on feminist approaches or priorities. Rebuilding a development model based on policy coherence from feminist and human rights approaches. Policy coherence is an essential foundation for advancing social, ecological and democratic transformations and for implementing the 2030 Agenda. 

It is an essential process for advancing comprehensive and transformative solutions towards global justice, gender justice, inclusive governance, as well as the promotion of human rights. It requires a concrete commitment to the design and deployment of a comprehensive system for the promotion and monitoring of all government action from feminist approaches that put the sustainability of life at the centre of policies and the strengthening of women's agency. 

It implies not being complicit in those factors and oppressions that we denounce: violation of rights, extractivist economy, expropriation of territories, arms trade, drug trafficking, racist immigration laws. We also want to highlight the importance of bodily autonomy for the enjoyment of all other human rights - such as the right to health or the right to live without violence - especially at a time like the present with a strong rise of anti-rights, reactionary and neo-conservative movements.

In Spanish cooperation's commitment to the advancement of women and gender equality, there has been an important evolution that has developed as the international community, and especially feminist movements, have promoted changes and proposals that are more transformative of systemic inequalities. 

From our work with our local partners in different contexts and in the dialogues we held with them, we were told that the time had come for us to change the so-called "gender glasses" for "multi-focal and progressive glasses" that would lead us to more radical transformative processes. They even challenged us that we were the ones who had to empower ourselves by accepting and incorporating their knowledge. 

This feminist approach implies a project of radical transformation of the system and not just the adoption of affirmative action measures in each context. It seeks to undo the model in order to rebuild on the basis of fairer and more egalitarian policies. The feminist approach has the potential to change not only the lives of women, but of society as a whole, of anyone who seeks keys to transform it. It is a potential for transformation and its aim is to change the world towards equality. Transforming power relations. Simply put, the feminist approach wants to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression (bell hooks, 2019, p.21). 

Our approaches to the feminist perspective in foreign policy, international cooperation, humanitarian action and education for global citizenship are based on a critical and evaluative analysis that allows us to make proposals for the progress and changes necessary to build a truly transformative feminist foreign policy that is based on the conceptions and priorities of the organisations and populations with which we cooperate and that considers, respects and values the knowledge of local citizens.  

From a critical feminist approach, we propose new references for a policy of international cooperation that places the sustainability of life and the strengthening of the agency of women and their organisations at the centre. The inclusion and agency of women are at the basis of global sustainability. 

By "agency" we mean what Amartya Sen defines as ...what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of the realisation of goals or values that that person considers important. In the case of women and development theory, their active role is emphasised, as they are no longer passive recipients of aid aimed at improving their well-being, but are seen, both by men and by themselves, as active agents of change, as dynamic promoters of social transformations that can alter the lives of society as a whole. 

Developing cooperative alliances from a feminist perspective will allow us to draw from these sources, to question the very structures of power and to move towards structural changes that lead to overcoming patriarchal and other systems of economic and colonial domination. Our sources are ecofeminism, decolonial and postcolonial feminism, feminist economics and the care economy.

It seems essential to us to address the different gaps that intersect with the gender gap. In other words, we cannot measure gender discrimination without taking into account the interweaving of oppressions that overlap in this gender analysis. We appeal to an intersectional view. 

The term intersectionality has been formulated by black feminism as a response to a white, Western, exclusive feminism that did not consider women of other races and social classes. This term was proposed in 1989 by the African-American jurist Kimberlé Crenshaw to indicate that racial and gender discrimination intersect and generate specific inequalities. 

It is now an approach and tool for analysis, advocacy and policy-making that addresses multiple discriminations and helps us understand how different identities influence access to rights and opportunities. It aims to eliminate inequalities in order to achieve social transformation by addressing causes and problems simultaneously and in a coordinated way. The implementation of this tool from the feminist approaches that we propose implies profound transformations in the culture and dynamics of cooperation as we know it. 

As Hill Collins and Bilge pointed out in 2019: Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analysing the complexity of the world, of people and of human experiences. The events and circumstances of social and political life and personhood can rarely be understood as determined by a single factor. They are generally shaped by many factors that influence each other and act in concert. 

Class domination and ethno-racial domination feed on each other, therefore the struggle for equality cannot be separated from the struggle for the recognition of difference.

We invite to adopt in the policies of cooperation, education for global citizenship and humanitarian action a critical thinking of transformation of the models of development, cooperation and humanitarian action so far in force and which are based on a critical view of capitalism, anti-environmental developmentalism, patriarchy, androcentrism, racism and colonialism. 

In order to promote this process in education systems and workplaces, we should review our own organisational practices, to defend listening and incorporate in our work teams other groups such as the migrant population with their views and proposals for change, to have more influence on the actions and public policies of our governments and companies and their global impacts.  

It is a key moment, where governments from different latitudes are taking steps to adopt this change of approach in their international relations and we need a vigilant, active, proactive, very twinned civil society in alliance between the different continents, in order to make significant progress.