IDEASS programme

DEVNET has signed an agreement with the UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Service) to cooperate in the framework of the IDEASS programme (Innovation for Development and South-South Cooperation), alongside with three United Nations Agencies, namely: UNDP, ILO and UNIFEM.

IDEASS is an international cooperation programme aimed at strengthening integrated and participatory territorial development processes by stimulating and increasing use of innovations.

It seeks to enhance the ability of public and private territorial actors to meet the needs of local population by using innovative working methods and tools that have been successfully and efficiently used both at the national and international levels.

This programme aims at reinforcing and strengthening already existing cooperation ties among Southern actors as well as creating new ones. IDEASS wants Southern actors to undertake the main roles, while being assisted and supported by more industrialized countries.

The IDEASS programme precisely wishes to facilitate the identification, promotion, and transfer of those innovations which have demonstrated their contribution to human development, to enhance environmental resources and to reduce poverty and social exclusion.

Amongst the objectives of the agreement, DEVNET will promote the IDEASS programme in the People's Republic of China. In this regard, DEVNET will gather, promote and develop innovative and efficient mechanisms and tools used in China in different fields. These range from the fields of governance and local economic development, to the development of sustainable environmental patrimony, and health, social and educational services.

Furthermore, DEVNET will support the formulation and implementation of South-South and South-North cooperation projects through its world-wide network.

For more information, please visit IDEASS website at www.ideassonline.org.