ART International

Genesis of Programme résolument modern

The ART Initiative - Support to territorial and thematic networks  for Human Development - has been launched in November 2004 by UNDP in collaboration with UNESCO, OMS, UNIFEM and UNOPS and joined recently by ILO and UNHCR.

This initiative is aimed at the promotion of a New Multilateralism which supports the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), in which the System of the United Nations collaborates with the Governments, privileging the active participation of the local collectives and the social actors of the South and North.

From a professional point of view, the ART Initiative is devised to aid the Governments which wished to carry out programmes at a national scale to support the Local Governance and Development of the regions, Provinces and Communes of each country.

Additionally, ART is aimed at supporting the institutional instruments of coordination and contribution of the different bilateral, multilateral and decentralized cooperation partners; as well as managing the planning and monitoring of the processes of local development. The objective is that these contributors can help to carry out, in an effective and coherent manner the Millennium Development goals, both at a national and local level.

A scale of coordination for greater efficiency

ART International is coordinated by the Centre of Innovative partners of UNDP in Geneva. This Centre offers a number of services to the framework-programmes of the different participating countries (Mozambique, Senegal, Bolivia, Uruguay, Cuba, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Albania, Serbia, Lebanon, Morocco…etc.) thanks to this network of expertise which provides its assistance to the Programmes of ART GOLD:

• ART ILS LEDA: Development of Local Economies 
• ART WIN:  Support to the politics and practices against social exclusion
• ART UNIVERSITAS: Cooperation between the Universities
• ART IDEASS: Innovations for Human Development  
• ART WOMAN: Support to  strategies on the gender approach

ART adopts a territorial approach integrated and perceptive in which the methods of work are aimed at structural results which permit the creation of a constitutional context organised in a different manner to that which the national and international actors can contribute to the human development in a coordinated and complementary manner.

The participants will include; the donor countries (Spain, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Sweden...etc.), the Agencies of United Nations, the Governments, the actors of decentralised cooperation, of which several European Regions, Provinces and Communes, the ONG, the Universities and the private sector.

For more information on the ART Initiative, access the following link