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[email protected] http://www.delphl.ec.europa.eu Canadian International Agence canadienne de Development Agency développement international EUROPEAN UNION Delegation to the Philippines Critical Ingredients in Building and Sustaining Inter-Local Cooperation Activity undertaken under the aegis of the Philippines Development Forum’s (PDF) Working Group on Decentralization and Local Government’s Sub-Working Group on Inter-Local Cooperation, with the financial and technical support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union, and the Government of Canada provided through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). ISBN: 978-92-79-16037-0 Catalogue Number: JD-32-10-332-EN-C Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the publisher. The views contained in this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the perspective of the GTZ, European Union, CIDA or the PDF. Printed in the Philippines Table of Contents MESSAGE ..............................................................................................................4