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Catalogoabcafrica2010 I.Pdf 1 Brazilian tEChniCal CoopEration in afriCa Brazilian tEChniCal CoopEration in afriCa Ministry of ExtErnal rElations - MrE Brazilian CoopEration agEnCy - aBC Minister of External relations Ambassador Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim secretary general of the Ministry of External relations Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota sub-secretary for Cooperation and trade promotion Ambassador Ruy Nunes Pinto Nogueira Director of the Brazilian Cooperation agency Minister Marco Farani Ministry of External relations 2 Brazilian Cooperation agency photo: acervo aBC/MrE inDEx south afriCa 11 angola 15 algEria 23 BEnin 29 Botswana 33 Burkina faso 39 CapE VErDE 43 CaMEroon 49 Congo 53 gaBon 59 ghana 63 guinEa-Bissau 69 Equatorial guinEa 75 liBEria 79 Mali 85 MoroCCo 91 MozaMBiquE 95 naMiBia 107 nigEria 113 kEnya 117 são toMé anD prínCipE 123 sEnEgal 135 siErra lEonE 139 tanzania 143 togo 147 tunisia 151 uganDa 153 zaMBia 155 ziMBaBwE 159 East tiMor* 161 Ministry of External relations 4 Brazilian Cooperation agency photo: acervo aBC/MrE international Cooperation actions implemented by Brazil 5 prEfaCE Ambassador Celso Amorim Minister of External relations since the beginning of president luiz inácio lula da Brazilian agricultural research Corporation in accra; silva’s government, Brazil has intensified openness to dialog a pharmaceutical company producing antiretroviral with countries in africa. the strategy of building bonds drugs and the office of theo swaldo Cruz foundation in with africa is, at the same time, part of the effort to fulfill Maputo; standard cotton and rice farms, being respectively the Country’s mission to the world and the one to restore established in Mali and senegal; vocational training centers; national identity in the formulation of foreign policy. and countless projects on renewable energy, tropical we have opened 17 new embassies on african soil. agriculture, hiV response and malaria. our trade with africa has increased more than five times president lula’s participation as guest of honor during between 2002 and 2009. president lula has traveled ten the 13th african union summit represents a suitable times to the continent, visiting 23 countries, some of which moment to divulge, as it is portrayed in this book, the more than once. Brazilian technical cooperation actions in africa, both being it all shows that Brazil has a long-term commitment to implemented or under negotiation. Besides its emblematic africa. one way through which it can be best expressed is characteristic, because it takes place in the highest level of technical cooperation, which aims at sowing the seeds of the organization, the Brazilian president’s presence consists capacity for independent development. of a possibility that documents signed with the african technical cooperation is a key instrument in the union Commission serve as support for the multiplication Brazilian foreign policy. Cooperation promoted by Brazil, of new initiatives. following the true spirit of south-south interaction, several challenges faced by african countries are not favors knowledge transfer, capacity building, use of local unknown to Brazil, a country where inequality is still very manpower, and formulation of projects which take into substantial. Contributing to the development of africa, consideration each country’s specific reality. the solidarity through the sharing of solutions we found to our very own motivating the relationship of Brazil and other developing problems is the chief purpose of our technical cooperation. countries is the cornerstone of our cooperation activities as shown in this edition, a lot has already been done. with africa. however, the Brazilian motivation to continue working, as therefore, Brazil has proudly been offering well as new potential partnerships, guarantees that we are initiatives to african countries such as the office of the starting to take a step into a very promising future. Ministry of External relations 6 Brazilian Cooperation agency photo: acervo aBC/MrE international Cooperation actions implemented by Brazil 7 Brazilian tEChniCal CoopEration in afriCa prEsEntation horizontal cooperation has gradually been higher in and isolated activities, accounting for a total amount of 65 the Brazilian diplomatic agenda. this fact can be proved by million dollars, whose implementation is planned to be take the growing number of international acts signed between place during three years and in 37 countries. these countries Brazil and african countries during the past years and, are: south africa, angola, algeria, Benin, Burkina faso, consequently, the number of technical cooperation projects Botswana, Cape Verde, Comoros, Egypt, gabon, Cameroon, that have been implemented. the Brazilian government ghana, Equatorial guinea, Chad, guinea Bissau, gambia, signed a Basic technical Cooperation agreement, document liberia, lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Morocco, nigeria, providing the legal framework for the implementation of namibia, kenya, the Democratic republic of the Congo, cooperation actions, with Botswana, sudan, Burkina faso, the republic of Congo, são tomé and príncipe, senegal, Benin, gambia and Equatorial guinea in 2005; with zambia sierra leone, sudan, tanzania, togo, tunisia, uganda, and tanzania in 2006; with the african union and rwanda zambia, and zimbabwe. in 2007; with swaziland and sierra leone in 2009; and with Despite needs for cooperation being centered around lesotho in 2010. agriculture, health, education, and vocational training, aBC’s technical cooperation agreements are currently under portfolio of projects is quite vast and includes initiatives on negotiation with Ethiopia, Comoros, Mauritania, Djibouti, e-government, public administration, the environment, it, Burundi, liberia, uganda and Chad. in 2009, aBC signed an entrepreneurship, handicrafts, cooperatives, workplace injury unprecedented agreement with the government of Egypt prevention, urban development and basic sanitation, biofuels, on the implementation of projects to be carried out by both air transportation, tourism, justice, culture, foreign trade, governments in benefit of third countries. the conduction human rights and sports. of activities has demonstrated in 2009 increase of more the Brazilian cooperation front-line in africa involves than 250% as compared to 2008. in 2010, more than 300 portuguese-speaking countries. Brazilian cooperation in initiatives are expected to take place, encompassing projects angola, Mozambique, guinea Bissau, são tomé and príncipe, Ministry of External relations 8 Brazilian Cooperation agency Cape Verde accounts for 55% of all resources available for the restoration of a farm in the senegalese agricultural technical cooperation projects in africa. however, Brazilian research institute. in such farm, a variety of Brazilian seeds cooperation has been diversifying beneficiary countries in will undergo experiments, and capacity building activities in africa. therefore, cooperation activities are under negotiation rice production will also be offered to Malians and Bissau- and being implemented with new partners, such as senegal, guineans. finally, in Mozambique, in partnership with the tanzania, namibia, Benin, liberia, sierra leone, republic Japanese international Cooperation agency (JiCa), two of Congo, Botswana, sudan, Mali, Morocco, zimbabwe, experimental farms will be established with the purpose of zambia, and others. being centers dedicated to innovation, research, extension since 2008, aBC has been looking forward to implement and capacity building, one concerning the semi-arid a new strategy of action concerning the Brazilian south- environment and the other, the cerrado. south cooperation, which favors the formulation, whenever with the support of sEnai, aBC has implemented possible, of “development” projects, in lieu of the automatic vocational training centers in angola, Cape Verde and reproduction of the traditional model of single-topic guinea Bissau, whereas other two are being established projects. Development projects offer Brazilian cooperation in Mozambique and são tomé and príncipe. such centers a wide range of advantages, especially to beneficiary offer programs on engine mechanics, civil construction, countries: increase of social and economic impacts on electrification, clothes and it. Besides these ones, aBC, the community targeted by the cooperation; guarantee of in partnership with sEnai, currently negotiates the greater sustainability to results obtained by the Brazilian implementation of two training units (smaller centers) in cooperation; easier mobilization of Brazilian institutions to Morocco (on the training of the visually and physically implement the various project components; and creation of impaired, and civil construction), a unit on gemstones in appropriate conditions for trilateral partnerships with other zambia, another on textiles in Mali and yet another one on international players. furniture making in Cameroon. all together, the projects with the first one of those projects is the support provided sEnai account for more than us$ 20 million. to the Cotton initiative, benefitting the Cotton-4 member in regard to health, aBC, through capacity building of countries (Benin, Burkina faso, Chad and Mali). this project human resources and institutional strengthening, supports was approved through an agreement between the federative the development of national healthcare programs for people republic of Brazil and the african union, the first one of this with sickle Cell Disease in angola,
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