Best practices from technical cooperation programmes would indicate that individual partnerships should seek opportunities to link with other projects and activities and build communication and dissemination into their plans from the start.
This paper begins to address these lacunae by examining and evaluating a 9-year technical cooperation and exchange programme between Penang Municipal Council (Malaysia) and Yokohama City (Japan) in the arenas of city planning and management.
We first consider Brazil's health technical cooperation within the country's wider cooperation programme, aiming to identify its key characteristics, claimed principles and values, and analysing how these translate into concrete projects in Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Further, in attention to programme delivery for the period 2007-2009, thevaluationon shall examine the value added by the One UN which aims to bring together the expertise and resources of the entire UN system including resident and non-resident agencies in delivering development assistance and technical cooperation under a single, unified programme.
He was formerly the Director of Programme Innovations and Technical Cooperation at Sightsavers.
That is why I would suggest developing the existing programmes of scientific and technical cooperation and aiming them in particular at universities, to give young people and budding scientists a chance to be actively involved in the new partnership and benefit from their mutual experiences.
FECC coordinates China's South-South Cooperation programme (SSC), in particular with FAO, and provides technical advice and support to the MOA's international assistance programme, food security, policy and institutional analysis as well as other advisory services throughout the international cooperation process.
It has been involved in China's South-South Cooperation programme (SSC), in particular with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and provides technical advice and support to the MOA's international assistance programme, food security, policy and institutional analysis as well as other advisory services throughout the international cooperation process.
Nagasaki University plays an active role in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Pacific Island countries through the J-PIPS technical cooperation project that is entrusted to the university by the Japan International Cooperation Agency JICACA).
Whilst those who are engaged in partnership programmes believe that this approach is a valid, cost-effective and complementary form of technical cooperation [ 6] it is recognised that there is a lack of high quality evidence and inherent difficulties in measuring the effectiveness and benefits of partnership work [ 7].
