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EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
In carrying out our work, the Office of External Relations comes in contact with several partners. A partnership is the relationship between two or more people or organizations that are involved in or share the same activity. According to the DAC Journal Development Co-operation 2000 Report, an effective implementation of a partnership depends on the ownership of the process by the partner countries themselves, who are responsible for achievement. This is the case whether it is the co-ordination of aid or its coherent policy, at every stage of the process. Today, in the international agenda, most agencies have agreed that the main responsibility for combating poverty lies with the government and the people of each developing country. The role of development co-operation is to support national policies based on self-reliance and responsibility by the partner countries. Ownership and partnership - involving in particular national and local government, but also civil society and the private sector both donor and partner countries - based on a shared view of counties' needs, capacities and objectives are the foundation of our co-operation with partner countries. This requires the building country's own capacity to diagnose and act on its anti-poverty agenda and other development issues. Lately, the international cooperation community has been focusing on discussing the importance of partnerships as a critical tool for development. For example, in Spring 2001, the Informal Multilateral Secretariats Group (IMSG) which regularly brings together the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the World Bank, IMF, UNDP, UN, the regional development banks and the EC, worked on a forum related to the promotion and implementation of ownership, the systematic use of the comprehensive development frameworks and the strategic approaches, among others. For more information about partnerships please visit the Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development website at www.oecd.org, or visit their online books and periodicals site at www.sourceoecd.org.
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