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Presentation by Najat Rochdi, Deputy Director of the UNDP Centre in Geneva on UNDP's work in decentralised development cooperation given at Korea University at 12th of October 2012.TRANSCRIPT
The ART Initiative Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development
Importance of local actors
in developmen
t cooperation
In the context of national development efforts:
The local level is where development impact people’s lives;
it is where the real needs of the people are defined.
local governments, as decision-making bodies closer to the citizen, are responsible for ensuring access to basic services.
UNDP and Decentralized Cooperation
UNDP recognizes the strategic role of Decentralized Cooperation (DC) and designed the ART Initiative in 2006 as the entry point for DC actors who wish to work together in support of national and local development policies.
ART understands DC in a broad and inclusive sense, where local authorities, Civil Society Organizations, the private sector and academia work with counterparts in other countries to advance Sustainable Human Development.
The territorial approach to development
Innovative modality promoted by UNDP ART based on a multi-actor and multi-sectoral approach.
The plurality of actors of a territory – local authorities, CSOs, academia, the private sector, traditionally excluded groups - work jointly to define priorities, plan and implement sustainable human development strategies at local level.
Connecting
Territories
and
Communities
UNDP ART facilitates a structured dialogue between territories and their communities– from South to South and South to North– as a new development cooperation paradigm based on horizontal relationships between partners instead of the traditional donor-beneficiary approach.
This innovative cooperation modality links communities and countries and allows them to work together and share experiences on issues of common interest, such as health, education, youth employment, citizens’ rights, the environment and migration.
AFRICA: Gabon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal.
LATIN AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Uruguay + programme on Women and Local Economic Development in Central America (MyDEL)
ASIA: Indonesia and Sri Lanka
BALCANS: Albania and Kosovo
MEDITERRANEAN: Morocco, Lebanon and Syria
Current Programmes
ART Framework Programmes
ART in numbers
Started: 2006National Framework Programmes: 19Regions working with ART: 75Municipalities working with ART: 375Funds mobilized: US$ 156 MillionsImplemented at the local level: 80%
Partners:Bilateral Cooperation: 9UN Agencies: 12Development Networks and Foundations: 40Decentralized Cooperation partners: 600
Water Tower part of an initiative to provide drinking water to 15,000 villagers, funded by DC partners from the regional and provincial governments of Lombardy (Italy) – Louga Province, Senegal
ART in actionMorocco: Harmonization of Development Partners
Very positive that 75 actors use the ART framework to respond to the demand of the territories…
…even more so when their interventions serve to strengthen Local Development Plans and the country’s regionalization.
ART in actionMorocco: Harmonization of Development Partners
The Government of the Dominican Republic and the ART Dominican Republic Programme have promoted peer-to-peer learning, with the exchange of knowledge and good practices on Local Economic Development with Cuba, Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Uruguay, to learn from experiences of Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.
These exchanges involved 4,300 participants, 80% of whom were representatives of local governments.
ART in actionTriangular and South-South cooperation on
Local Economic Development in Latin America
ART in actionISI@MED – ICT for Development
ART-ISI@MED (Information Society Initiative for the Mediterranean) strategic objective is to strengthen and bolster development efforts in the Mediterranean Region through the effective and efficient use of ICTs at the local level.
Tackles a distinct divide separating the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean – a digital divide and one of human development
The Initiative has three components: ICT for territorial management, that is, for strategic planning and management of local resources; ICT for local economic development, notably for helping small and medium-size enterprises and cooperatives’ management; and ICT for community engagement.
Aid Effectiveness at the local level and post Busan (UCLG, FOGAR, DeLoG)
Rio +20 – territorial approach to SHD
Local Economic Development I World Forum in Seville
2012 ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum
Global Processes
The ART Initiative Articulation of Territorial and Thematic Networks for Human Development
Thank you! 감사합니다
Najat RochdiDeputy Director UNDP Geneva Office