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After the Technical Unit Secretary’s office receives the application, the Secretariat
of the Technical Unit and representatives of the Intergovernmental Committee per-
forms 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 distri-
bution of the grants fund between the countries adhering to the Programme.

During the last years, the priority guidelines on issuing grants are:

• 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.

• Treatment of Scientific archives.

• Development of joint projects in collaboration with other Ibero-American
Cooperation Programmes.

22 Structure and operation / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme