cooperaTIon programs and projecTs In 2012
IN 2012, THE IBERO-AMERICAN countries reported that they participated in a total of 38 programs and 13 projects under Regional Horizontal South-South Cooperation. Those programs and project are listed in Tables IV.1 and IV.2, re- spectively. Additionally, to facilitate understanding of the analysis performed in this and subsequent sections using the content of those tables, each program and project is as- signed a code.
Moreover, each of the 38 programs and 13 projects in 2012 was classified in accordance with the subregion to which the participating countries belong. Specifically:
a) Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama).
b) Mesoamerica (comprising Central America plus the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and also a non-Ibero- American country: Belize).
c) Andes (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela).
d) South America (the 5 Andean countries plus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay).
e) Latin America (the 19 countries in the continent, from Mexico to Chile, including Cuba and the Dominican Re- public but excluding the other Caribbean countries).
f) Ibero-America (the aforementioned 19 countries plus Andorra, Spain and Portugal).
Tables IV.3 (in this section) and A.4 (in the Annex) detail which countries were involved in those 38 programs and 13 projects, respectively. Observing those tables gives a better idea of the classification approach, which takes precedence over the participation of a subregional body, which might have been used as an alternative criterion.1 To illustrate the way in which these cooperation programs and projects are listed:
1. It was decided not to use the second criterion since, as discussed later, regional bodies are not involved in all Regional Horizontal South-South Cooperation programs and projects.
a) The Amazon Malaria Initiative (code 4.1), which primari- ly involves Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) together with Brazil (Table IV.3), is classified in the South America subregion, to which the five coun- tries belong.
b) The MERCOSUR-AECID program (code 6.23), which in- volves Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay and Spain, is classified under Ibero-America, which is the only subregion which groups all of them, even though the regional body participating in the program is not Ibero-American but, rather, encompasses the South American countries.
Additionally, there are a few exceptional cases where par- ticipation by a “regional element” does affect the classifica- tion. This is the case with some records from Central Amer- ica and Mesoamerica (e.g. Programs and Projects 1.1, 1.4, 2.2 and A.2, respectively), which are supported by mechanisms (such as the Central American Integration Mechanism, SICA, and the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue) which force the in- clusion under those subregions of experiences involving countries which do not belong to them, such as the case of the Dominican Republic (for Central America) and Colombia (for Mesoamerica).2
It is also worth noting that non-Ibero-American countries also participated in the programs and projects registered in 2012. As shown in Tables IV.2 and A.4, in the Annex, they were mainly Caribbean countries (Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Ja- maica and Suriname), Puerto Rico (an Associated Free State which, particularly in the early 1990s, had a special status in some cultural programs of the Ibero-American Conference); and traditional donors such as Germany, Australia, the USA and Switzerland, which, as detailed below, played in impor- tant role in funding part of the Regional Horizontal South- South Cooperation registered in 2012.
2. It should be noted that a purely geographical criterion was be- ing used here, ignoring the fact that the Dominican Republic belongs to a Central American body such as SICA and that Co- lombia is a member of the Mesoamerican Project.
table IV.1. Regional horizontal South-South Cooperation programs. 2012.
SUBREGIOn nAME Of REGIOnAL hORIzOntAL SOUth-SOUth COOPERAtIOn PROGRAM ASSIGnED CODE
CEntRAL AMERICA Healthcare Human Resources Development Plan for Central America and the Dominican Republic 1.1
Joint Medicine Procurement Program 1.2
Regional Food and Nutritional Security Program for Central America (PRESANCA II) 1.3 Regional Border Security Program for Central America and the Dominican Republic 1.4
MESOAMERICA Mesoamerican Cooperation Program (Mexico axis) 2.1
Mesoamerican Cooperation Program (Colombia axis) 2.2
AnDES Regional programs of the Andean Committee of Telecommunications Authorities (CAATEL) 3.1
SOUth AMERICA Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) 4.1
Program for Integrating Regional Infrastructures of the UNASUR countries 4.2 LAtIn AMERICA Regional Cooperative Agreement for the Advancement of Nuclear Science and Technology
in Latin America (ARCAL-IAEA) 5.1
Program to Transfer the SENAI model of Prospective Professional Training (CINTEFOR) 5.2 IBERO-AMERICA Support for Development of Ibero-American Archives (ADAI) 6.1
IBERBIBLIOTECAS 6.2
IBERMUSEOS 6.3
IBERMÚSICAS 6.4
IBERORQUESTAS JUVENILES 6.5
IBERVIRTUAL 6.6
Modernization of Justice and New Technologies 6.7
Justice Observatory 6.8
Ibero-American Literacy Plan (PIA) 6.9
Ibero-American Network for International Legal Cooperation (IBERRED) 6.10 Development Program to support the Performing Arts in Ibero-America (IBERESCENA) 6.11 Training and Technology Transfer Program in End-to-End Management of Water Resources 6.12
Pablo Neruda Academic Mobility Program 6.13
Program to Combat Organized Crime 6.14
Program in support of an American Audiovisual Space (IBERMEDIA) 6.15 Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development (CyTED) 6.16 Ibero-American Program for Cooperation in Territorial Development (PROTERRITORIOS) 6.17 Ibero-American Strategic Urban Development Program (CIDEU) 6.18 Ibero-American Program of Development and Modernization of Professional Technical
Education 6.19
Ibero-American Program to Strengthen South-South Cooperation 6.20 Ibero-American Program on Industrial Property and Development 6.21 Ibero-American Program on the situation of Seniors in the region 6.22
MERCOSUR-AECID Cooperation Program 6.23
Network of Ibero-American Diplomatic Archives (RADI) 6.24
Reform of Penitentiaries 6.25
Ibero-America Educational Television (TEIB) 6.26
Virtual Educa 6.27
table IV.2. Regional horizontal South-South Cooperation projects. 2012.
SUBREGIOn nAME Of REGIOnAL hORIzOntAL SOUth-SOUth COOPERAtIOn PROJECt ASSIGnED CODE
CEntRAL AMERICA
Regional Academy of Search and Rescue in Emergencies A.1 Systematization, instruments and tools for transferring and implementing the Small
Business Development Centers (SBDC) model via the Centros de Desarrollo de Micro y Pequeñas Empresas (CDMyPE)
A.2
AnDES Search for New Markets for Fruit and Vegetables (FPG) B.1
Exchange of Experiences on Opening up New Markets for Value-Added Products from
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru B.2
SOUth AMERICA Development of Mechanisms for Exporting Services in Free-Trade zones in Colombia, Brazil and Peru
C.1 Integrated and Sustainable Management of Cross-Border Water Resources in the Amazon
River Basin Considering Climate Variability and Climate Change (GEF-Amazon Project)
C.2
Quality control system for value-added products C.3
LAtIn AMERICA Contribution by Higher Oversight Entity to Government Transparency D.1 Identification and selection of tomato cultivars resistant to the virosis complex transmitted
by Bemisia Tabaci
D.2 Project to improve competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises (Pacific Alliance) D.3 Network for Scientific Research into Climate Change (Pacific Alliance) D.4 Streamlining of the Gender Perspective in Public Health Policies D.5 IBERO-AMERICA Ibero-American Quality Project IBERQUALITAS/FUNDIBEQ E.1
table IV.3. Countries that participated in Regional horizontal South-South Cooperation. 2012.
PROGRAM IBERO-AMERICAn COUntRIES (fROM thE nORth tO thE SOUth
Of thE COntInEnt, PLUS thE IBERIAn PEnInSULA)
OthER COUntRIES SUBREGIOn CODE CEntRAL AMERICA 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Belize MESOAMERICA 2.1 Belize 2.2 Belize, Australia, US AnDES 3.1
SOUth AMERICA 4.1 Guyana, Suriname, US
4.2 Guyana, Suriname
LAtIn AMERICA 5.1 Haiti, Jamaica
5.2
IBERO-AMERICA 6.1 Puerto Rico
6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 Puerto Rico 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27
Source: SEGIB, based on reporting from cooperation agencies and/or bureaus.