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The Horizontal Cooperation Strategy and its First Knowledge Sharing Workshop:
Background and Purpose
Presentation by the Director of the Unit for Social Development, Education and Culture, Sofialeticia Morales
Ottawa, Canada - October 27, 2003
SUMMITS OF THE AMERICAS
•Democracy
•Human Rights
•Telecommunications
•Environment
•Hemispheric Security
•Trade
•Social Development
•Education
•Culture
•Labour
Priorities and plans of action set by the Presidents of the Americas in the following
areas, among others:
Unit for Social Development,
Education and Culture
Culture
Education
Employment and Labour
Social Development
Fight against poverty
An intersectoral view to development
Unit for Social Development,
Education and Culture
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Culture in the process of the Summits of the Americas
Ministers approve the Horizontal Cooperation
Strategy
First Meeting of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Culture
I Summit of the Americas
“We recognize the heterogeneity and diversity of our resources and cultures”
“we can advance our shared interests and values by building strong partnerships”
II Summit of the Americas“In its broadest sense, a process of integration based on respect for cultural identities will make it possible to shape a common, interwoven set of values and interests that helps us in these objectives.”
III Summit of the Americas
“We consider the cultural diversity that characterizes our region to be a source of great richness for our societies. Respect for and value of our diversity must be a cohesive factor”
Second Ministerial Meeting
Strategy of financial assistance:One-way flow of resources
Strategy of Collaboration:Exchange of resources, information, ideas and personnel to reach a shared objective.
What constitutes the model of Horizontal Cooperation?
On its own, it tends to impose models:
Development Aid
It is an opportunity to collectively review and build experiences and models:
Horizontal Cooperation
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It exceeds the vision of centralized
knowledge and is led by the countries
What constitutes the model of Horizontal Cooperation?
Horizontal Cooperation
The political will of a country offering its consolidated program to share its successes, processes and lessons learned.
The technical capacity of the countries that are either offering or receiving an consolidated program to support and participate in a process of critical reflection that will allow for the identification and appropriation of relevant lessons.
What is the basis of the model?
Horizontal CooperationAdvantages and commitments
FOR THE OFFERING COUNTRY:
FOR THE RECEIVING COUNTRY:
Its program is disseminated internationally.
It may support another country, regardless of its level of development.
It benefits from a hemispheric perspective that allows it to reveal its accomplishments.
It allows for a participatory assessment of its institutional processes.
It benefits from cooperation that addresses a problem that has been identified as a priority.
It receives materials and knowledge that facilitates the development of its own strategies.
It has access to specialists that can support the training of personnel
It receives support to strenghten its strategies with the lessons learned from other experiences.
1. Identification of Consolidated Programs
2. Creation of a Permanent Portfolio of Consolidated
Programs
3. Linking Supply and Demand
4. Knowledge Sharing Workshops
5. Lessons learned, follow-up and pilot projects
STEPS CURRENT SITUATION
Identified
Created
29 programs from 11
countries
Horizontal Cooperation Strategy among Ministries and Authorities in Culture
1. Identification of Consolidated Programs
2. Creation of a Permanent Portfolio of Consolidated
Programs
3. Linking Supply and Demand
4. Knowledge Sharing Workshops
5. Lessons learned, follow-up and pilot projects
STEPS CURRENT SITUATION
Identified
Created
Horizontal Cooperation Strategy among Ministries and Authorities in Culture
Countries have been consulted
First Workshop in Canada...
Knowledge Sharing Workshop on “Cultural Diversity, Youth Employment and Youth
Exchanges”
Ottawa, October 27-31, 2003
First Workshop of the Horizontal Cooperation Strategy among Ministries
and Highest Authorities in Culture
Department of Canadian Heritage
What are the main objectives of this Knowledge Sharing Workshop?
Analyze the Young Canada Works Program, the Youth Employment Strategy (YES) and the Exchanges Canada Initiative from two perspectives
The promotion and respect of cultural diversity
Help young people enter the world of work
Identify lessons learned and recommendations from these experiences, in order to improve the strategies and programs implemented in each country that target young people as promoters of cultural diversity.
Achieve the critical transfer of the Canadian experience.
Learn from experiences of other countries and deepen the analysis on how to improve them.
Epistemological Framework of the Critical Transfer
A critical analysis of the experience that is being shared is needed, in order to make it “objective” and later appropriating and “transforming it”.
(move from object to subject)
The cultural and labour reality of youth in our countries is similar, but each country faces specific circumstances.
The achievements and difficulties of a program that works in one country have lessons to give to other countries. They are also a seed for similar projects, once transformed to fit the reality of each country.
1. Descriptive factors
2. Historical factors
3. Current factors
4. Evaluation and prospective factors
It is necessary to analyse the factors for the sistematization and critical transfer:
Epistemological Framework of the Critical Transfer
Description:
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Historical
PlanningProject oriented
Cooperative learning
Sistematization
History Current moment
Prospective
Current conditions
Pla
nn
ing
an
d
Evalu
ati
on
Opportunity Areas
Actors
Scenarios
Opposing Forces
THINK BIG
CRITICAL TRANSFER
PROCESS OF ACTION AND REFLECTION
Current conditions
The Agents of Change are the key of the process of critical transfer. “People make history don’t suffer from it”.
You can change the conditions of youth and the development of cultural policies in your countries.
The seed only grows on fertile ground. Partnerships with other entities enriches the soil.
It is necessary to document the process in order for the analysis and transfer not to be an event but a process.
Epistemological Framework of the Critical Transfer
Next Steps - to be explained in greater detail in the last session
Application of lessons learned
Virtual follow-up coordinated by the OAS
Website will coordinate the joint exchange, dialogue and mutual learning process.
Gathering of efforts to design Hemispheric Projects.
Invitation to participants and audience
Let’s ensure this Workshop promotes the analytical, critical, open and equitable interaction among participants.
Let’s deeply analyse the information that Canada is so generously offering us, in order to rethink the situation of youth, as promoters of cultural diversity, in our countries.
Let’s keep in mind the objectives of this Workshop and seek lessons learned and consider recommendations.