Local development in international cooperation: issues, approaches and perspectives for a territorialisation of development policies

Abstract

The communication starts from the analysis of Italy-Cilss Fund (ICF), a cooperation program that has engaged for about a decade, from the beginning of 2000, the Italian governmental international cooperation in the Sahel, involving various forms of partnerships: International Organizations (UNOPS, Cilss), the central government of Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Niger, regional and local governments of the selected areas of intervention (Zarese), Italian NGOs, and especially Sahelian various associations of civil society just to the villages of intervention. ICF represents a program of great interest, such as organic attempt to coordinate an approach focused on local development and territory, variously defined, combining a wide range of initiatives to combat desertification. Despite a great effort in the process of setting up and defining the program, with many innovative issues, in its implementation it has experienced considerable difficulties, delays, route changes, even radical. ICF experienced all the difficulties and ambiguities of an approach combining positive local development approach (relatively autonomous dynamics in the room) and a normative one, trying to stimulate with relatively similar approaches in different contexts of the interventions local projects oriented to combating drought and desertification as obstacles to development. ICF has been and still is a collection of stories, a great event in its preparation and becoming, a mirror and a laboratory of Italian way to international cooperation. It is not only interesting but relevant from a political, civil and scientific point of view to reconstruct the ratio, the becoming, out of a evaluation logic (even if considering evaluation reports in the various stages of its life cycle) to put in evidence light and shadow, good and bad practices, capitalize and stimulate a process of collective learning in a world such as that of cooperation that seems to be hard to not proceed to tear and removals.

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