ART Multidonors Framework Programmes

The ART Global Initiative supports the formulation and implementation of multi-donor Framework Programmes in the countries that formally request it. They are named in this way because their objective is to create an organised institutional, planning, strategic and operational context enabling local, national and international actors present in the local sphere to jointly support the countries’ local development processes, the achievement of the MDGs and the implementation of the Paris Declaration.

The Framework-Programmes represent an instrument facilitating the identification, articulation and implementation of a large number of initiatives that are the expression of a common strategy and not the addition of isolated and punctual projects. All these individual initiatives follow the same priorities, operate in the same territory and interact with the same local and national stakeholders but are planned along different formats, chronologies, technical approaches and administrative procedures. By using the Framework Programmes, the cooperation actors and the local and national stakeholders can rely on a tool capable of increasing the sustainability and impact of their actions, without sacrificing their identity or visibility and, at the same time, provide more coherent support to the territories’’ organised demand.

A Framework-Programme has a minimum duration of three years, period during which it is institutionalised and if the results and progresses permit, it is then appropriated by the country. As a result of the Programme institutionalisation process, the ART Initiative operates under a turn-over principle, allowing the participation of newly interested countries. Participants include national governments, donor countries, UN Agencies and programmes, regional and local governments, decentralised cooperation actors, universities, the private sector, and non-profit and civil society organisations.

The Framework Programmes are simultaneously active at the local, national and international levels 

At the Local Level

The ART Framework Programmes strengthen the planning capacities at the local and regional levels via the Regional (RWGs) and Local Working Groups (LWGs), which rely on a coordinator appointed by the heads of the regional and local administrations. The RWGs and LWGs are integrated by technical delegates from the sectors prioritised by the respective public administrations and are open to the participation of the territories’’ public and private stakeholders, civil society organisations and the involved cooperation entities.

The Working Groups organise and coordinate the Territorial Planning Cycle, that is to say the specific mechanism through which the objectives of actor complementarity and initiative articulation with national and local development processes is materialised. Moreover, the Working Groups represent reference and support entry points for the engaged international and decentralised cooperation actors. They are in charge of the complementary planning of all actions implemented by the different actors, thus avoiding duplications, maximising their impact and directing them towards Regional and Local Development Plans.

At the National Level

The National Coordination Committee (NCC) is in charge of ensuring the correct implementation of the Programmes’ methodology and instruments, as well as guaranteeing its coherence with national policies. Led by the Programme’s counterpart at the ministerial level and the UNDP, the NCC assembles representatives from other relevant ministries, UN Agencies and programmes and different international cooperation actors (bilateral and decentralised) involved with the Programme.

The NCC, as the place where regional and local planning is carried out, is articulated with national strategies and programmes, orients donors towards the Framework-Programme and asses the results achieved in the territories in terms of capacity development and strengthening, sustainability, actor complementarity and replicability at the national level. In this manner, projects and actions implemented reach a higher impact not only because they address local needs but also because they become laboratories for practices of potential interest for other regions in the country.

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At the International Level

The Framework-Programmes support and encourage the internationalisation of the regional and local development dynamics, this is, the systematic exchange of best practices and technological, organisational and managerial innovations. ART works through three thematic components, mainstreamed within each Framework-Programme: innovation, capacity development and knowledge management and international economic partnerships. Global activities are managed by ART’s International Coordination at the UNDP Office in Geneva, as part of the HUB for Innovative Partnerships, and the ART Offices in Rome, Florence, Seville and Barcelona.

Countries where the ART Programmes are in place

Currently, the ART Global Initiative is active in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Latin America and the Mediterranean:

Afric

• Mozambique : ART PAPDEL Programme - Support to Local Economic Development Processes
• Senegal: ART Senegal Programme
• Mauritania: ART Mauritania Porgramme

Asia

• Indonesia: ART Indonesia Programme
• Sri Lanka: ART Sri Lanka Programme

Balkans

• Albania : ART Albania Programme
• Kosovo: ART Programme

Latin America

• Bolivia: ART Bolivia Programme
• Central America: ART MyDEL Programme - Women and Local Economic Development, in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador
• Colombia : ART REDES Colombia Programme
• Cuba : ART PDHL Cuba Programme - Local Human Development Programme
• Dominican Republic: ART Dominican Republic Programme
• Ecuador: ART Ecuador Programme
• Uruguay: ART PDL Uruguay Programme - Local Development Programme

Mediterranean

• Lebanon: ART Lebanon Programme
• Morocco: ART Morocco Programme
• Syria: ART Syria Porgramme

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