EN | EN | FR

 

The CEO of the Recover Foundation enters the 'Top 100 Women Leaders'.

Marta Marañón has dedicated most of her professional life to helping others, either by improving aid effectiveness through evaluation or by working in development cooperation organisations.

The general director of Fundación Recover, Hospitals for Africa has been selected by the newspaper El Español between the Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain in the category of Public, Institutional and Social Impact.

Having also been selected in 2022 and 2023, this third award places it among the best in the world. Top 100 HonoreesThis milestone reinforces its role as a benchmark in the field of development cooperation, humanitarian action and social impact.

As highlighted in the article published by El EspañolMarta Marañón has been working in the third sector for 20 years. In 2003 she was appointed deputy director general of the DARA International Foundation, dedicated to the evaluation and monitoring of development cooperation and humanitarian aid interventions, where she conducted work missions in crisis contexts and in multiple countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

In 2011, she joined Ayuda en Acción's management team, where she contributed to boosting institutional relations and strategic alliances with the private sector. Since January 2023, she has been CEO of the Recover Hospitals for Africa Foundation, specialising in health cooperation in the sub-Saharan Africa region.

For the Recover Foundation, this recognition reaffirms its director's commitment to improving healthcare for the most disadvantaged people in Africa.

Read the full article in El Español here: https://www.elespanol.com/mujer/lastop100/20250216/top-mujeres-lideres-espana-xii-edicion-politicas-pp-psoe-empresarias-cientificas/923937601_3.html

If you also want to collaborate, become a member of Recover now

en_GBEN

Sahrawi refugee camps

Population > 200,000

0.5 Doctors/1000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2025

2 health centres supported

Telemedicine, infrastructures

Incidence in 13,000 people

Sahrawi camps - kindergarten

Spain

6.21 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

Resource 7

1,024 health and management volunteers, and non-health volunteers, offering their expertise

8 partner hospitals in the country

Resource 9

More than 90 companies/entities have collaborated with their projects

Tanzania

0,1 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Operating theatre and other equipment, volunteering, telemedicine

Incidence in 10,140 people

Uganda

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

1 health centre supported

Telemedicine

Uganda context photo

South Sudan

0,4 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

2 health centres supported

Ophthalmology campaigns

Incidence in 15,000 people

Mobile Clinic H Yambio South Sudan

Republic of Chad

0,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Grants for laboratory training and equipment, nutrition unit and patient intervention in Spain

Incidence in 10,000 people

Image source: CC BY 2.0, Link

Equatorial Guinea

3,5 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

3 health centres supported

Telemedicine

Incidence in 1,000 people

Guinea Ecautorial context photo

Cameroon

1,24 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

71 health centres supported

Resource 10

Hospital management, electricity, water and sanitation infrastructure, health campaigns (child malnutrition, cervical cancer, cardiovascular risk, malaria, sickle cell disease), equipment (operating theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy equipment, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, electrocardiograms, incubators, dental chairs, ambulances, etc.), training scholarships in Spain and Africa, telemedicine, intervention of 63 patients in Spain.

Incidence in 998,218 people

cameroon

Burundi

0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2024

1 health centres supported

Reference anatomical pathology laboratory

Incidence in 78,031 people

Democratic Republic of Congo

3,7 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

7 health centres supported

Training in Spain, laboratory equipment, drinking water, photovoltaic energy and telemedicine

Incidence in 30,500 people

congo

Photo by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development

Burkina Faso

1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

3 health centres supported

Intervention for cardiac patients in Spain, telemedicine

Incidence in 60,000 people

Pielá - water well - Burkina Faso

Côte d'Ivoire

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

23 health centres supported

Telemedicine, hospital management, maternal and child health, mental health, sickle cell disease, diabetes

Incidence in 148,000 people

côte d'ivoire context

Benin

0,62 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

2 health centres intervened

Maternity infrastructure, drinking water, energy, ultrasound equipment, management

Incidence in 20,850 people

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.