Unutilised appropriations at the close of the financial period are cancelled, except for the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) appropriation which remains available for obligations during the financial period following that for which the funds were voted.
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.
In its efforts to assist governments and the private sector in implementing regional cooperation programmes through the provision of technical support, inter-regional cooperation and partnerships on inland fisheries and aquaculture, FIR will ensure that international, regional and national fisheries bodies recognise and support women's role in these sub-sectors.
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].
8. (C) Technical Cooperation (TC), Ana Maria Cetto, Mexico.
