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Decentralized Cooperation - Coggle Diagram
Decentralized Cooperation
Local descentralised cooperation
Set of official cooperation initiatives for development which, under the leadership of local authorities, aim to stimulate the capacities of terrritory- based actors and foster a more participatory development.
Actors
Different understandings
Local governments, NGOs and other actors in civil society.
Limited to local governments.
Descentralized cooperation
Relations of direct collaboration between two or more local governments.
Modalities
They change every day
Number of actors
Multilateral
Bilateral
Kind of actors
Aims
Geographic scope
Issues
Way of management
Direct
By local government
Indirect
Through subsidies or subsidies to ther external organisms. Local governmenrt limited to financing.
Kind of actions
Formal
Informal
Distinctive features
Nature of cooperation is more horizontal.
Supported by mechanisms to transfer knowledge and by appropiate meeting environments to lead the counterpart closer to reality.
Cooperation is based in reciprocity.
Mutual interest and reciprocity.
Actors have deep roots in, and strong bonds, with the local community and territory.
Mutual Benefits
Promoting the establishment of new institutional links
Promoting intercultural tolerance and understanding
Finding other financial and technical cooperation sources
Strengthening social cohesion at a local level
Training administrative staff and elected officers
Promoting economic development, investment, trade and tourism
Improving public service exchanging experiences better techniques
Endowing the local government with international visibility and strengthening its negotiating capacity
Types
Local governments networks
Innovative cooperation
Benefits
Greater lobbying and negotiating power
Exchanging experiences and information
Consolidating areas of agreement to create economies of scale and generate common added value
Connecting isolated players with different action spaces and fostering cooperation with other institutions
Short life span and sporadic activities
Multi-level cooperation, lobbying and advocacy
Objective
Have an effect on the improvement of the performance of local public administration's basic functions
Town twinning and bilateral projects
Oldest way of descentralized cooperation
Some are not antiquated
New way: trilateral twinning
Two twinned cities decide to invite a third town to benefit from their experience, and thus widen the exchange.
For exchanging learning, understanding, and coexisting.