Coordination of Technical Cooperation with the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CGCPLP)

Since the creation of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP, from the acronym in Portuguese), Brazil has been a leader in proposing and implementing cooperation actions for the socioeconomic development of the Community's member states. Brazilian cooperation has covered a wide range of topics, among which health, water resources, higher education, and the rights of people with disabilities stand out.

The main attributions of the CGCPLP, division responsible for coordinating the international technical cooperation implemented between Brazil and other CPLP member states within the scope of the Community are the following:

I - Guiding national institutions on procedures related to the elaboration, approval, processing and execution of technical cooperation projects to be developed within the CPLP scope;

II – Coordinating scoping, monitoring and evaluation missions for programs, projects, activities and work plans within the CPLP scope;

III - Participating in Cooperation Focal Points Meetings, which are responsible for advising other CPLP bodies on all matters concerning development cooperation within the scope of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP);

IV - Serving as the main interlocutor between CPLP countries and the national institutions participating in development cooperation activities.

In order to contribute to the improvement of the governance and management mechanisms of CPLP cooperation, Brazil has driven, since its term chairing the Community (from 2016 to 2018), an exercise that resulted in new programmatic and normative instruments, adopted on the occasion of the XXIV and XXVI Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers, respectively held in Mindelo (Cape Verde, July 2019) and in Luanda (Angola, July 2121).

These instruments will foster increased dialogue and coordination between the Ministerial Meetings, the Cooperation Focal Points Meeting (RPFC), the Permanent Concertation Committee (CCP) and the CPLP Executive Secretariat, and will confer greater concreteness to the Sector-based Strategic Cooperation Plans, with greater efficiency in the application of resources and less duplication of efforts, which are indispensable in a context of funding scarcity and multiplication of players in intra-community cooperation.