Here in Busan, at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, there is strong momentum around South-South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange. The main thematic session on South-South drew a crowd of close to 500 people. In the intense negotiations over the Busan Outcome Document, the South-South agenda is front and center. Why?

Let me give an example.

It is 2009. We are in the midst of the financial crisis, and Nepal realizes that its banks are overexposed.…

Over the past three days, policy-makers gathered in Busan have made clear that this year's High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF) was all about ensuring that the big new development players, and in particular Brazil, China and India, are on board of the new "Global Partnership of Effective Development Cooperation". (see pdf)…

A new LenCD publication is now available: CAPACITY → RESULTS: Case stories on capacity development and development results (PDF 2 MB).  This…

First day at HLF4 in Busan and I am looking forward to the discussions on SSC and the changing development cooperation landscape!

Check my paper  - Toward a New Development Cooperation Dynamic  - and many more, at the HLF4 E-library. (The library will only be available from the start of the HLF4 until 20 December).

Description: The paper focuses on non-DAC providers of assistance and the changing multilateral development cooperation…

http://wws14points.blogspot.com/2011/10/african-energy-access-is-china-game.html

English:

Brazilian Civil Society Organizations Declaration on International Cooperation and Development Effectiveness

Cooperating Country, Cooperating Society

Brazilian%20CSO%20Declaration%20for%20Busan.pdf

Português:

Declaração de Organizações da…

From a Fledging donor to a powerhouse: Brazil development cooperation 

The report synthesizes Brazil's development cooperation framework and institutional setting, and makes recommendations on how the Brazilian Cooperation Agency can improve its…



Issue of Commons and institutional arrangements:



Fisheries in rainfed areas have immense potential. Small reservoirs, tanks, water harvesting ponds created as a part of watershed development or MGNREGS and wetlands in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal etc. that dot the landscapes of rainfed areas have potential for fisheries development. An estimated 1.2 million ha of water spread area exists with fishery potential across the country. In all the state…

LA ESTRATEGIA DE DESARROLLO RURAL,parte desde el orden de la sectorizacion, definir las estrategias de trabajo, garantizando la sostenibilidad, de cada individuo, utilizando el 100% de los recursos que provee el medio, de manera que antes de surgir todo el suceso de la modernización, cabe mencionarse que es necesario, retomar las reglas y conocimientos del pasado en donde familias se dedicaban a producir sus consumos, y activaban un mercado local interno,de esta manera podemos, re…

Brazil´s Global Development Agenda (Meeting Summary)

CHATHAM HOUSE. UK

27 october 2011

This event was convened to provide a forum for debate around Brazil’s approach to International Development between Minister Farani, policymakers, journalists and business representatives. This is part of a wider debate that resonates across the world on the role of emerging economies and the articulation of their development agendas.

Minister Marco Farani has been…

[The following article was originally published on October 27, 2011, on Jamia Journal (JamiaJournal.com) -- Jamia Millia Islamia University's independent student…

Agencia Brasileira de Cooperação (website)

Brasil e Fundação Gates se unem para melhorar a segurança alimentar

http://www.abc.gov.br/lerNoticia.asp?id_Noticia=610

Brasília, 01º de novembro de 2011 – Hoje, o Governo brasileiro, por meio da Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (ABC), assinou Memorando de Entendimento com a Fundação Bill & Melinda Gates que tem…

Saludos cordiales a todos/as.

Con ocasión de la VI Cumbre de las Américas a celebrarse en Cartagena, Colombia en 2012, FEDESARROLLO a realizado un análisis de la cooperación solidaria en el continente americano muy interesante.

Lo coloco a disposición de la comunidad, pues se encuentra en la red:

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El Centro de Investigaciones en Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo (CICI+D) perteneciente a la Escuela de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina, celebrará los días 9 y 10 de noviembre el seminario "Los Países de Renta Media en la Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo".

El seminario abordará los diversos enfoques, las áreas temáticas, los perfiles de países latinoamericanos (Brasil, Venezuela, Chile y Bolivia) y su comparación con…

Estimados, comparto con ustedes una nueva publicación sobre el tema. Los invito además a leer el resto del contenido de la revista en donde salio en www.lamodala.com , una nueva revista que aborda diferentes temas que pueden ser de interés.

Saludos.

Natalia.…

El Foro AOD ofrece información detallada sobre los preparativos del Foro de Alto Nivel sobre la Eficacia de la Ayuda, a celebrarse en Busan entre el 29 de noviembre y el 1 de diciembre de 2011. Se irá actualizando en la medida que avancen las negociaciones políticas:

Calentando motores para Busan

http://foroaod.org/2011/10/03/calentando-motores-para-busan