Working Meetings with International Cooperation Actors
Promoting synergies between German cooperation with Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
In August and September at Center for Advocacy and Global Growth: Resumen | LinkedIn we played an active role in collaborating with officials and authorities from Friedrich Naumann Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay.
Our mission was to promote the implementation of training programs for new social leaders interested in promoting sustainable projects funded by the European Union in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil.
We organized a series of institutional meetings between Angelo Bardini, Nadia Barrozo representatives of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Office and several members of the CAGG network.
CESCOS in Uruguay, Instituto Millenium in Brazil, and the School of Government of the Organización de los Estados Americanos (OAS) were instrumental in these meetings.
Together with them, we will establish regional triangular cooperation consortiums to launch training and awareness programs in the territories in 2025.
CAGG will also play a key role in developing a new knowledge exchange platform connecting professionals and specialists from the European Union interested in collaborating and sharing knowledge and lessons learned about their work in Latin America.
Boosting networks and new European cooperation projects in Africa
With colleagues from Forum 2000 Foundation, we organized a series of meetings to explore institutional synergies to support the initiative Solidaridad Democrática África | Foro 2000. The main objectives associated with this initiative are:
Fostering and strengthen solidarity among democracy advocates in the region through collaborative action on various pressing issues.
Amplifying African voices and perspectives in global and regional dialogues.
Transforming the project into a stable and long-term network.
Subsequently, we held a series of meetings with CAGG network think tanks located in the southern and eastern African regions to broaden and diversify the network's composition Democratic Solidarity Africa and Forum 2000 Foundation Call for Immediate R | Forum 2000.
We would especially like to thank Suzana Agolla Aroko, Margareth Simalenga Joanita Magongo from UONGOZI Institute , Dr. Donald Mmari y Dr. Lucas Katera from REPOA in Tanzania.
Those support has been very important in consolidating the initial advances of the network.
Strengthening European Cooperation and Social Innovation in Latin America
New inclusion and sustainability projects in the Amazon. Working with the native populations of Manaus and Belén by fostering a more prosperous future
Together with Flavia Furtado and Cristina Guevara de Frint, MBA, ProfD at Center for Advocacy and Global Growth we have made the commitment to design a new multi-stakeholder consortium to promote the FAO Amazonia project, a cultural initiative that combines a strong imprint of social inclusion and biodiversity with the native populations residing in the states of Pará and Amazonas.
The institutional funding of this initiative, launched since 2021 within the framework of the Ópera Latinoamérica project, has enabled, among other achievements, the creation of 1,500 new jobs in the city of Manaus, the implementation of more than 400 vocational workshops, and the reintegration into school and work of more than 4,500 adolescents living in the states of Pará and Amazonas.
To strengthen and diversify the initiative's funding sources, we have worked with other members of the CAGG network such as Barrabés.biz and Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos -OEI- to develop a 2025-2027 work plan aimed at providing greater institutional visibility to the initiative in the 22 countries of Ibero-America.
We are also exploring synergies with potential new partners such as ACCIONA and Swissential SA with the aim of institutionalizing the transparency of the initiative's anti-cyclical fund.
Digital transformation and public innovation and sustainability. Organizing the new executive training programs in Madrid with corporate executives and public managers from Latin America
We worked with Instituto de Investigación y Educación Económica and FUNDACIÓN ORTEGA-MARAÑÓN to create content for the second edition of the international program on innovation and digital transformation and the first edition of the executive program, "Sustainability at the Center of Decision Making."
To this end, we held working meetings with leading specialists in the artificial intelligence agenda, including Carlos Molina del Rio, executive director at MultiVersial, Rita M. Grandinetti PoliLab UNR - Les invitamos a #fronterar director and Ismael Gómez García global strategy director from Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos –OEI– to incorporate new speakers and topics to be addressed in the working sessions in Madrid which will be held from September 22 to October 4.
We are proud to announce that this event will bring together more than 30 prominent senior public officials and corporate managers from Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Peru.
Furthermore, we prepared the technical report, "Governance of Public Data in Argentina," in collaboration with CIPPEC and Instituto de Investigación y Educación Económica. We will present our findings in the report, "Lessons Learned for a Successful Digital Transformation," on September 26th in the meeting room of the Ortega y Marañon Foundation. We will be joined by professionals and specialists from Spain and Mexico.
