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• Collection of good practices of catalan cooperation
• Methodological practical guides of cooperation

Good Practices 1

Construction of a well of drinking water in Bouanzé (Mauritania)

The decentralized, local and not governmental cooperation, during the last 20 years has experimented a strong growth. This fact has endured the impulse of a model of cooperation that has had to be constructed by itself, in which often it has given more importance to the action than to the reflection.

We think that, exhausted the first stage of growth centred on the action, it is necessary to move towards the second stage of reflection and specialization that prioritizes the efforts in the evaluation and in the practical application of what we have already learned, assuming the challenge of evaluating to transform.

In this stage the cooperation can gain interest because it can open all its potential and its specialization. As the fact is that the local and territorial ambience (community, municipality, region, department, autonomous region, country) is the best stage where to impel initiatives of development, of participation and of management, where using public policies faced to promote the social inclusion and equity, will be able to impel new development models.

Because is it necessary to say with rotundity that only if we are capable of impelling a quality cooperation and simultaneously compromised with the endogenous development of the countries of the South we can contribute efficiently to the transformer process.

In particular, in this first number of the collection of good practices we want to present a co-development initiative to you .

The codevelopment is an initiative that it assembles many actors of the Catalan decentralized and local cooperation and that is, in itself, an innovative proposal for the relations north/Nouth. In particular, the initiative we present to you, Implantation of a well of drinking water in the locality of Bouanzé (Mauritania), which impels Santa Perpètua Solidària with the support of Santa Perpètua’s Town Hall, in the frame of Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament and the Catalan Agency of Cooperation for the Development, it is a very good practice of co-participation of actors and to answer collectively about the lack of drinking in Sub-Saharan Africa.

On the one hand, here in Catalunya we work hand by hand with the Town hall of the municipality, and SANTA PERPÈTUA SOLIDÀRIA, in which takes part the local associative textile t and in which, every day more, there meet also the new citizens that come from other countries of the South and that bring new proposals of cooperation that are innovative and participative. On the other hand, in Mauritania, in particular in Bouanze, the Soninké’s town is organized and keeps on having a very strong bonds with its European diaspora, and across this network it have woven ties of solidarity with Catalunya.

Núria Camps i Vidal
Director of AVALUEM

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