Decentralized Partnerships
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In agreement with governments, ART supports local communities in the South and North in building development partnerships as part of the framework programmes. More that 300 decentralized co-operation partnerships are operational in various countries. In the North, they involve regional and local governments in Canada, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
The decentralized co-operation projects may involve all or only some of the areas of action included in the framework programmes. What matters is that they be defined in collaboration with the local work groups and that they fit with the regional and local plans for international co-operation.
Decentralized co-operation projects serve as laboratories for innovation in the various fields of human development, driven by a spirit of shared dignity and mutual learning. They also serve to promote social-solidarity, scientific, cultural, professional, training, economic and commercial initiatives and exchanges that nurture an open and internationalized vision of development.
Through its international services and framework programmes, the ART Initiative provides technical and organizational support to local communities and their national and international associations to establish, and to render operational, decentralized co-operation partnerships oriented toward the Millennium Development Goals.
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