From my current position at the Government of Catalonia, as the Director of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation, I constantly improve my understanding of the challenges faced by cities and local communities worldwide through my almost daily contact with partner public administrations, civil society organizations and local communities. We do jointly identify and implement projects and programs, and design new strategies to meet the specific needs of citizenship. Gender and Human Rights approach are central to our work for a transformative perspective. I work together with our partners at the institutional level, but also to have regular contact with the technical staff of public administrations, NGOs and counterparts devoted to the improvement of quality of living and respect of Human Rights.I am in charge of 53 professionals devoted to define and manage cooperation for development programs (30M € year budget). . I have a wide network of contacts with UN agencies and programs, associations of regions and cities, and community level institutions and organizations, a plural ecosystem of actors. Throughout almost 25 years, before my current position, I worked at the International Relations and Urban Planning Departments at the Barcelona City Council.