Presentation by Najat Rochdi, Deputy Director of the UNDP Centre in Geneva on UNDP's work in decentralised development cooperation given at Korea University at 12th of October 2012.

1. The ART Initiative
Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development

2. In the context of national development efforts:
Importance
of local  The local level is where development impact
actors people’s lives;
in  it is where the real needs of the people are
development defined.
cooperation
 local governments, as decision-making
bodies closer to the citizen, are responsible
for ensuring access to basic services.

3. UNDP and Decentralized Cooperation
UNDP recognizes the strategic role of Decentralized Cooperation (DC)
and designed the ART Initiative in 2006 as the entry point for DC actors
who wish to work together in support of national and local development
policies.
ART understands DC in a broad and inclusive sense, where local
authorities, Civil Society Organizations, the private sector and academia
work with counterparts in other countries to advance Sustainable Human
Development.

4. The territorial approach to development
Innovative modality promoted by UNDP ART based on a multi-actor
and multi-sectoral approach.
The plurality of actors of a territory – local authorities, CSOs, academia, the
private sector, traditionally excluded groups - work jointly to define priorities,
plan and implement sustainable human development strategies at local level.

5.  UNDP ART facilitates a structured dialogue
between territories and their communities–
from South to South and South to
North– as a new development cooperation
Connecting paradigm based on horizontal relationships
between partners instead of the traditional
Territories donor-beneficiary approach.
and  This innovative cooperation modality links
Communities communities and countries and allows them
to work together and share experiences on
issues of common interest, such as health,
education, youth employment, citizens’ rights,
the environment and migration.

6. ART Framework Programmes
Current Programmes
AFRICA: Gabon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal.
LATIN AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Uruguay +
programme on Women and Local Economic Development in Central America (MyDEL)
ASIA: Indonesia and Sri Lanka
BALCANS: Albania and Kosovo
MEDITERRANEAN: Morocco, Lebanon and Syria

7. ART in numbers
Started: 2006
National Framework Programmes: 19
Regions working with ART: 75
Municipalities working with ART: 375
Funds mobilized: US$ 156 Millions
Implemented at the local level: 80%
Partners:
Bilateral Cooperation: 9
UN Agencies: 12
Development Networks and Foundations: 40 Water Tower part of an initiative to provide
drinking water to 15,000 villagers, funded by
Decentralized Cooperation partners: 600 DC partners from the regional and provincial
governments of Lombardy (Italy) – Louga
Province, Senegal

8. ART in action
Morocco: Harmonization of Development Partners
Very positive that 75 actors use the ART framework to respond to the demand of the territories…

9. ART in action
Morocco: Harmonization of Development Partners
…even more so when their interventions serve to strengthen Local Development Plans and the country’s
regionalization.

10. ART in action
Triangular and South-South cooperation on
Local Economic Development in Latin America
The Government of the Dominican Republic and the ART Dominican
Republic Programme have promoted peer-to-peer learning, with the
exchange of knowledge and good practices on Local Economic
Development with Cuba, Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Uruguay, to
learn from experiences of Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.
These exchanges involved 4,300 participants, 80% of whom were
representatives of local governments.

11. ART in action
ISI@MED – ICT for Development
ART-ISI@MED (Information Society Initiative for the Mediterranean)
strategic objective is to strengthen and bolster development efforts in the
Mediterranean Region through the effective and efficient use of ICTs at
the local level.
Tackles a distinct divide separating the northern and southern shores of
the Mediterranean – a digital divide and one of human development
The Initiative has three components: ICT for territorial management,
that is, for strategic planning and management of local resources; ICT for
local economic development, notably for helping small and medium-size
enterprises and cooperatives’ management; and ICT for community
engagement.

12. Global Processes
 Aid Effectiveness at the local level and post Busan
(UCLG, FOGAR, DeLoG)
 Rio +20 – territorial approach to SHD
 Local Economic Development I World Forum in
Seville
 2012 ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum

13. The ART Initiative
Articulation of Territorial and Thematic Networks for Human Development
Thank you! 감사합니다
Najat Rochdi
Deputy Director UNDP Geneva Office
najat-.rochdi@undp.org