Technical Cooperations

Technical cooperation is a type of collaboration focused on the exchange of technical and management knowledge, with the aim of strengthening the capacities of water institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is characterised by the provision of know-how in the form of staff, training, research or consultancy to contribute to the achievement of the partner countries’ development objectives.

Generally, there is no specific country as a beneficiary, but rather consultancies are developed for different purposes: a) to carry out a situation diagnosis to enable countries to work on their national plans, sectoral policies or investment programmes; b) to reinforce the results of actions already carried out or c) to focus on systematising knowledge products. Therefore, in this case, no beneficiary country receives the approved amount, but rather they are contracted by the AECID or the IADB directly – according to their policies of competence and transparency – and the results and products are socialised and made available to the countries or the region in order to maximise their impact.