The ART Initiative Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development

Importance of local actors

in developmen

t cooperation

In the context of national development efforts:

The local level is where development impact people’s lives;

it is where the real needs  of the people are defined.

local governments, as decision-making bodies closer to the citizen, are responsible for ensuring access to basic services.

UNDP and Decentralized Cooperation

 UNDP recognizes the strategic role of Decentralized Cooperation (DC) and designed the ART Initiative in 2006 as the entry point for DC actors who wish to work together in support of national and local development policies.

ART understands DC in a broad and inclusive sense, where local authorities, Civil Society Organizations, the private sector and academia work with counterparts in other countries to advance Sustainable Human Development.

The territorial approach to development

 Innovative modality promoted by UNDP ART based on a multi-actor and multi-sectoral approach.

The plurality of actors of a territory – local authorities, CSOs, academia, the private sector, traditionally excluded groups - work jointly to define priorities, plan and implement sustainable human development strategies at local level.

 

Connecting

Territories

and

Communities

UNDP ART facilitates a structured dialogue between territories and their communities– from South to South and South to North– as a new development cooperation paradigm based on horizontal relationships between partners instead of the traditional donor-beneficiary approach.

This innovative cooperation modality links communities and countries and allows them to work together and share experiences on issues of common interest, such as health, education, youth employment, citizens’ rights, the environment and migration.

AFRICA: Gabon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal.

LATIN AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Uruguay + programme on Women and Local Economic Development in Central America (MyDEL)

ASIA: Indonesia and Sri Lanka

BALCANS: Albania and Kosovo

MEDITERRANEAN: Morocco, Lebanon and Syria

Current Programmes

ART Framework Programmes

ART in numbers

Started: 2006National Framework Programmes: 19Regions working with ART: 75Municipalities working with ART: 375Funds mobilized: US$ 156 MillionsImplemented at the local level: 80%

Partners:Bilateral Cooperation: 9UN Agencies: 12Development Networks and Foundations: 40Decentralized Cooperation partners: 600

Water Tower part of an initiative to provide drinking water to 15,000 villagers, funded by DC partners from the regional and provincial governments of Lombardy (Italy) – Louga Province, Senegal

ART in actionMorocco: Harmonization of Development Partners

Very positive that 75 actors use the ART framework to respond to the demand of the territories…

…even more so when their interventions serve to strengthen Local Development Plans and the country’s regionalization.

ART in actionMorocco: Harmonization of Development Partners

The Government of the Dominican Republic and the ART Dominican Republic Programme have promoted peer-to-peer learning, with the exchange of knowledge and good practices on Local Economic Development with Cuba, Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Uruguay, to learn from experiences of Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.

These exchanges involved 4,300 participants, 80% of whom were representatives of local governments.

ART in actionTriangular and South-South cooperation on

Local Economic Development in Latin America

ART in actionISI@MED – ICT for Development

ART-ISI@MED (Information Society Initiative for the Mediterranean) strategic objective is to strengthen and bolster development efforts in the Mediterranean Region through the effective and efficient use of ICTs at the local level.

Tackles a distinct divide separating the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean – a digital divide and one of human development

The Initiative has three components: ICT for territorial management, that is, for strategic planning and management of local resources; ICT for local economic development, notably for helping small and medium-size enterprises and cooperatives’ management; and ICT for community engagement.

Aid Effectiveness at the local level and post Busan (UCLG, FOGAR, DeLoG)

Rio +20 – territorial approach to SHD

Local Economic Development I World Forum in Seville

2012 ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum

Global Processes

The ART Initiative Articulation of Territorial and Thematic Networks for Human Development

Thank you! 감사합니다

Najat RochdiDeputy Director UNDP Geneva Office

najat-.rochdi@undp.org