Trilateral Cooperation

Trilateral technical cooperation is undertaken by building partnerships with one or more developed countries/developing nations, and/or international organizations.

Partnerships with developed countries and international organizations (IOs) broaden and deepen the technical, thematic, geographic, and financial possibilities for project implementation, and complement bilateral South-South cooperation (SSC) initiatives fostered by Brazil. In its execution, trilateral cooperation upholds SSC guiding principles.

In addition, the mandates of the different international partner organizations bring specific technical knowledge that complements the Brazilian experience and, in the case of cooperation agencies from developed countries, their consolidated experience in priority issues.

The partnership with developed countries also contributes to strengthen the funding base for cooperation initiatives, while partnerships with international organizations allow for greater alignment of trilateral initiatives with strategies and priorities built multilaterally, at the regional and global levels.

Brazil has been increasing its efforts in promoting Trilateral SSC, with the objective of catalyzing the partnerships structured over the last few decades, in order to reach more countries and benefit more people in the developing world.

The exchange favored within the framework of trilateral initiatives also engenders reflections and lessons learned about cooperation practices. The construction of multistakeholder actions can benefit from different accumulated experiences, increase the scale of South-South technical cooperation initiatives, and favor actions with greater impact.

Characteristics:

• Emphasis on capacity building and development;
• Complementarity of technical inputs from partners;
• Exchange of knowledge, experiences and best practices between partners;
• Shared responsibilities, both in terms of governance and management, throughout the project cycle, regardless of the amount invested by the partners;
• Shared costs, based on each partner's resource availability;
• Commitment and effective and direct engagement of Brazilian cooperating institutions.