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A regional drive: South-South cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

30/04/2009 By MªClara Sanín B., Julia Schünemann, Nils-Sjard Schulz

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In a workshop of the Europe-Latin America Forum celebrated in March 2009 in Bogotá, FRIDE in cooperation with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Enlaza Colombia brought together 24 experts, among them political respresentatives, civil servants from international organisations and academics in order to have an open exchange on the issue of South-South cooepration in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A lively debate took place with a focus on the following three aspects: South-South cooperation: implications of the Accra agenda en beyond; horizontal cooperation in Latin America: actors and experiences and the role of conventional donors: towards strategic contributions.

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Keywords

Aid effectiveness Aid management Aid policy Civil society Latin America & Caribbean

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Bio author: MªClara Sanín B.

Anthropologist with a Master in Development Policies by the Institute for Social Studies in Den Haag (2004). As Director of Enlaza Colombia her current research agenda includes South-South cooperation and aid effectiveness.

Bio author: Julia Schünemann

Julia Schünemann is a researcher at FRIDE. She also coordinates the Europe-Latin America Forum. Her research focuses mainly on EU-Latin American relations, fragile states, and peacebuilding within the security cluster of the Initiative for Peacebuilding.

Bio author: Nils-Sjard Schulz

Nils-Sjard Schulz is associate fellow at FRIDE. His research focuses on the new aid architecture, the global governance of aid, the impact of donor harmonisation on partner countries, democratisation, implications of international division of labour and South-South cooperation.