Multilateral Cooperation

Multilateral technical cooperation is a modality of the cooperation received from abroad. It is conducted between Brazil and international bodies or organizations, and focuses on the internalization and/or sharing of knowledge, practices and techniques, which are generally not yet available on the domestic arena and are non-commercial.

The development of new institutional capacities and individual skills is a means to promote national development through the training of human resources, the holding of technical seminars, the conducting of specialized consultancies, as well as diagnostic assessments, and the implementation of pilot actions for the evaluation and validation of new technologies or processes.

The implementation of projects under this modality involves technical and financial resources that are either mobilized by international organizations or national institutions, or from international funds. 

The Brazilian public institutions that benefit from this modality of cooperation are most especially the Ministries of: Health, the Environment, Justice and Public Security, Education, Civic Affairs, the Economy, Women, Family and Human Rights, and the Ministry of Agriculture, which includes Livestock and Food Supplies. Local authorities are also beneficiaries; these are, for instance, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA), the National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL), the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) and the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), among other entities.