FRAMEWORK FOR TECHNICAL COOPERATION
In order to rescue international institutions in Colombia and in other countries in the region, it is important to expand knowledge in order to have a minimum correlation and knowledge regarding:
Cooperation as a human value turns technical cooperation into action, manifests when a certain country transfers non-reimbursable economic resources to another country and simultaneously provides technical assistance or another service that contributes to transforming undesirable situations into desirable ones, a valid reason to reconsider rescuing and appropriate the resident international organization, without accepting inopportune and pressing decisions of the local institutionality to execute resources at the last minute, especially at the end of the fiscal period, when they really had the opportunity to be scheduled and start their execution smoothly within the respective period.
It is notable that at the end of the year, officials of government entities, hastily and intentionally, allocate budgets to satisfy the presentation of management reports and show their own achievements and of other officials with different ranges, reports expressed in the value of budgets awarded, but not executed, and thus highlight and mask undoubtedly ineffective bureaucratized performances and achievements. This extemporaneity in the allocation of resources, shortens the term to one year given the possibility that the resources will be executed in two years.
Considering that state agencies are responsible for executing large sums of resources to invest in different projects during a term, in some way the concept of directly executing resources distracts the State from being a formulator and regulator (non-executor) of the policies of Therefore, it is required that these inconveniences be solved by taking advantage of the qualified resident external cooperation agents and have a high capacity to execute the development actions required by the country, but without the State evading the responsibility to maintain capacity. regulatory and vigilant on the application of resources.
This national mission to rescue international organicity, seeks convergence between the international and national to unify efforts, capture resources, exchange and manage knowledge to resolve deficiencies in the most vulnerable communities, depending on the country and potentialities expressed in the physiography, soil and water availability, among other characteristics.
Technical cooperation of international organizations
Technical cooperation concerns the capacity for collaboration and institutional contribution of an International Organization (IO) that, from its headquarters, brings its own international institutions closer to the local and regional community. To understand more, the issue raised here should not be ignored, since it is required to refer to and know the different forms of cooperation such as horizontally, vertically and tangentially to cooperation between States.
Horizontal technical cooperation
Horizontal technical cooperation is manifested when the international organization cooperates from its headquarters through its agencies, offices or bodies in each country, with high capacity to mobilize human, technological, financial resources and experiences, this cooperation demands a fluid and close relationship between locations even though they are located in other countries (see Illustration No. 1). This form of horizontal cooperation also takes place directly between States.
Vertical technical cooperation
A second form of reciprocity is vertical technical cooperation, carried out from the agencies, offices or bodies residing in the country, towards national entities and communities, with the local headquarters of the international organization responsible for carrying out technical cooperation actions, executing resources vertically, ensure the transfer of knowledge and that the resources, reimbursable or not, are applied in a timely and correct manner for the sustained development of the country. (see Illustration No. 2).
In accordance, the international representations, for having greater technical capacity to manage resources, are empowered to support the transition from a minor to a greater degree of community development, environmental conservation and an environmentally and economically sustainable future.
In some cases, vertical cooperation fosters the direct exchange of knowledge and encourages aid between entities, organizations or companies, created to develop communities, without following the State regulations on cooperation, it is its own and free action to exchange strengths and decrease disadvantages between companies, as economic subjects and self-management.
Bilateral technical cooperation
The forms of vertical and horizontal cooperation proceed when relationships are strengthened to optimize bilateral technical cooperation between countries with specific entities in each of them. This cooperation is instituted when relations are established between the country or organization that provides the cooperation services and the beneficiary country of the economic, human and technological resources.
This form of cooperation is strengthened when the country or an international organization and the beneficiary country, directly approach the community to attend and object of the cooperation, with the purpose of diligently achieving the desired products and results jointly agreed upon from the development initiative. expected by the community and sustained during the design, formulation, execution and evaluation of the social project. Through bilateral cooperation, the States also channel goods and resources, represented in money allocated or donated directly to beneficiaries, be they governments, specific organizations or communities. This possibility of donating resources immediately must be framed within the national cooperation policies of each country to avoid the sovereign overflow of the peoples.
Cooperation and strategic productive areas
Recognized and prioritized the productive areas that will enhance progress, will be the beginning to make demands on international cooperators, strengthened to support countries according to their needs in the areas of technological development in agriculture, forestry, the environment, international and national mutual solidarity. This clarification of areas to be developed would be welcomed as a priority by international cooperators, regardless of whether they make enriching suggestions in each area.
Consequently, international cooperation would apply to productive areas with national priority, cooperation that must be technical, financial (reimbursable or non-reimbursable) or both in turn. For these purposes, the following areas indicated in Table No. 1 are suggested, as they are capable of cooperation and have a high possibility of causing dizzying economic, social and environmental impacts, decisive factors for the rural community in view of the need to generate agrarian wealth in Latin American countries.
Table No. 1 National strategic productive areas
| PRODUCTIVE AREAS | |
| • | Agricultural |
| • | Livestock |
| • | Forest |
| • | Fishery |
| • | Agri-food |
| • | Environmental |
| • | Sanitary |
| • | Social |
| • | Rural infrastructure |
In order for the development of the countries to converge with the requirements for the progress and strengthening of international entities, it is necessary that universal cooperation organizations be motivated decisively to:
- Review the international agreements with each country, adapt its purposes to the legislation in force regarding cooperation, budget management, diplomatic immunity and other elements that contemplate and substantiate the raison d'être of cooperation and the reason for the institutional presence in the countries. Adjust the internal regulations of the international organization from the central headquarters so that the bodies established in the countries have autonomy and avoid inappropriate delayed procedures and give fluidity to the relations between the cooperative's central headquarters and its representation in the country, without affecting an adequate concept of what can be delegated and authority, in accordance with the sections of institutional control,.Facilitate access by national control agencies, subject to diplomatic agreement between international cooperation entities and the country.o Reformulate the strategic areas and cooperation policies, appropriable and that really contribute to the development of the countries. Form and maintain teams of talented technical experts who propose and formulate development strategies that originate projects with practical innovative ideas, and that, as people, have a very special vocation of services. Create a modern infrastructure that sensitizes and motivates countries to use technological services that facilitate the transfer of knowledge available in the knowledge market through international cooperation. o Establish reliable, modern, and efficient administrative processes that facilitate the monitoring of the operational, financial, and budgetary execution of the external resources assigned to the projects.Ensure the development of projects at the right and predetermined times. Competitively review the cost rates for the administration of project resources, determining the way and moment in which said rates would be applied so that they are not tax burden on development initiatives. embodied in cooperation instruments such as agreements, contracts and the project itself. Agree on the counterparts that the countries would be willing to contribute and on which administration costs would be negotiated. o Seek that a part of the fee as payment for administrative services, return to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versaCompetitively review the cost rates for the administration of project resources, determining the manner and moment in which said rates would be applied so that they are not a tax burden on development initiatives embodied in cooperation instruments such as agreements, contracts and the project itself.Agree on the counterparts that the countries would be willing to contribute and on which administration costs would be negotiated. o Seek that a part of the fee as payment for administrative services, return to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versaCompetitively review the rates of costs for the administration of project resources, determining the way and moment in which said rates would be applied so that they are not a tax burden on development initiatives embodied in cooperation instruments such as agreements, contracts and the project itself.Agree on the counterparts that the countries would be willing to contribute and on which administration costs would be negotiated. o Seek that a part of the fee as payment for administrative services, return to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versadetermining the way and moment in which said tariffs would be applied so that they are not a tax burden on development initiatives embodied in cooperation instruments such as agreements, contracts and the project itself. Agree on the counterparts that the countries would be willing to contribute and on the which administration costs would be negotiated. o Seek that a part of the fee as payment for administrative services, return to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versadetermining the way and moment in which said tariffs would be applied so that they are not a tax burden on development initiatives embodied in cooperation instruments such as agreements, contracts and the project itself. Agree on the counterparts that the countries would be willing to contribute and on the which administration costs would be negotiated. o Seek that a part of the fee as payment for administrative services, return to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versareturn to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versareturn to the country in the generation of events and cultural spaces that promote and bring the international to the national, and vice versa
Technological areas in charge of the organizations for cooperation
The suggestions of change of the cooperating organism in diplomatic matters, thematic and institutional strength, must coincide with existing strategic areas of knowledge that are favorable for the vital development of the countries, for this, the national strategies and policies formulated for development, should be reviewed. as well as the areas of knowledge that can be used in the scientific world and determine effective and efficient mechanisms that allow the transfer of teachings in favor of modernization and institutional strengthening of national public and private entities.
The redefinition and strengthening of the areas of knowledge within the international organization and each country have a very good opportunity if a strategy of competitive cooperation and shared action is formulated, without losing the institutional identity
Among the areas to consider are the following:
- Sustainable technological development and innovationCompetitive agribusiness managementFood security and food safetySustainable rural developmentEnvironmental management of natural resources and forest ecosystemsSustainable social developmentGeneration of employment opportunitiesEducation and trainingInformation and communicationInstitutional capacity developmentIntroduction of humanistic, agro-tourism areasAdministration of resources assigned to social projects and products for the integral development of rural society.
At the head of each area, there would be specialized technical teams with a high vocation for service, both in the cooperating entity and in the specialized entities of the country, to avoid monopolies of knowledge on one side or the other and maintain a balance that complements and fosters the exchange of experiences between professional managers of cooperation purposes.
The exact determination of the role of each area of knowledge will make cooperative institutions competitive and trustworthy, sufficient reasons for holders of local resources to perceive it pertinent to take advantage of the benefits of international technical cooperation and see it as a specialized technical assistance service that ensure the proper application of the resources provided by the parties, without abandoning the control required by competent national institutions, with the active participation of qualified and experienced personnel in the development of projects, the object of cooperation.
The previous measures would respond to the constant change and speed as events occur and to the permanent tendency of consumers to demand services. This recent trend towards the purchase of services, rather than physical products, motivates cooperation to change institutional attitudes and generate modifications. in the international and national proceeding towards the provision of services.
The strategy is: Training and Technical Assistance
The rapidity as technological changes happen and the permanent demand for services by consumers are pretensions that translate into the desire to acquire intuition and an urgent need for the knowledge accumulated by decades to be managed.
This modern guideline towards obtaining services, rather than physical products, motivates the cooperators to direct their efforts correctly, be more proactive than reactive and modify the way they provide contribution services and the way to achieve concrete results quickly, in response to the dizzying changes that occur in the communities to achieve sustainable development.
The first change
A first change of institutional attitude is to recognize that the technical cooperation offered by international organizations is not to develop basic scientific research, this change of concept in the good sense of cooperation, would propose to redefine what to do institutionally towards the assisted recruitment and transfer of technologies available in the knowledge market. Given this recognition, basic research would be carried out by national institutes, whereas applied research would be carried out by third parties with the aim of validating and promoting their appropriation by rural producers.
The second change
It is reflecting and institutionally considering that training and technical assistance act alone and on people because they are the ones who have the capacity to generate changes in attitude, appropriate knowledge and make the results of social projects their own, whatever their subject matter. Insisting, people are subjects to which economic efforts, assistance, advice and permanent help must be directed so that trained and talented individuals that generate their well-being and the human community, man and their environmental environment join.
To strengthen the preponderance of the individual as the recipient of development and the only one that can generate substantial changes, the need is added for funders to become aware that projects are life projects and must be conceived as such from the initiative, during their design, execution, and monitoring. and technical support after completion, since a life project does not end with the exhaustion of financial resources, withdrawal of technical assistance or suspension of cooperation services, and therefore, resources must be provided once the project is conceived. to monitor and follow up on the appropriation of results and finally to ensure that rural social development is economically, environmentally sustainable and lasts over time.
The above observations, first of all, visualize cooperation as a service aimed at training and providing technological technical assistance, provided through experts with scientific and technological knowledge. Secondly, it is essential to add a complementary component is administrative technical assistance which provides for the management, operation and correct application of human, physical and economic resources, an administrative discipline that adds value to cooperation.
Changes in attitude towards cooperation as a source of training, specialized technical and administrative assistance, promote changes in attitude to humanize projects. The scientific without the administrative support does not occur by itself, an organization in permanent learning in the scientific and administrative subjects is required, with committed and experienced human talent in these areas, that manages knowledge with excellence and competitiveness, is capable of self-evaluating and recognize the development potential of your environment.
The basis for change is training (change of attitude of the individual) along with technical and administrative assistance (reinforcement of change in attitude of the individual), which require prudent investments in infrastructure and intellectual modernization of institutions to optimize use of resources and take advantage of the strengths that a country has in the management of agricultural, livestock and forestry products.
This refers, for example, to the strengths and advantages of countries such as Peru, strong in managing knowledge of Andean crops, Colombia in tropical crops, Chile has advanced positions in the forestry economy, Uruguay and Paraguay in modern livestock, before These advantageous experiences are promising alliances between these countries to take advantage of what others do better. This thought does not monopolize or sectorize knowledge, but it does aim to reduce training costs, promote technological exchange, strengthen training infrastructure and concentrate basic knowledge in that country with the greatest productive advantage,from which the other countries will adopt and adapt the scientific and technological experiences of the country that offers the best scientific contributions and experiences in basic and applied research.
It is important to note that the international organization, in terms of training, does not have university functions, it only complements university professional training by updating professionals on the issues of the international organization, by institutional mandate but convergent with the needs of the country.
Once the cooperation framework with a high content of human value has been understood and the national productive areas and their corresponding international cooperation needs have been identified, it encourages the consideration and design of the next opportunity, how to strengthen the international cooperating organizations so that the services are provided at the same level. of excellence, which definitely means that they will influence the resolution of social problems in the rural community and in the country in general.
Finally, the collective peace of society and the tranquility of the individual are sought, as a consequence of development based on education, training and the formation of the individual.
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