Reverse Linkage

94 REVERSE LINKAGE Results and impacts • Employees trained in teaching courses in Peru, Brazil and Germany are now working in the new Centre. The CTA’s technicians are now able to train and advise companies, and to qualify technicians for the industry • The CTA regularly offers technical education in envi- ronmental technology, air quality water treatment and industrial chemistry • Specialisation in air quality and treatment of water and effluents, as well as short-term training on various topics are offered every year by the Centre • By 2017, the CTA had 1,344 participants in training courses as well as 501 technical students, of whom 150 had already finished their studies • The CTA is acknowledged as a partner by a broad range of sectors and is already being used as a model by SENATI to replicate in other regions of Peru. The Centre pays its operational expenses with revenues from its own services. Contributions from the partners • SENATI was in charge of project coordination; construc- tion of the Centre’s building; provision of equipment and infrastructure; establishment of a body of professional staff • The Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI) accompanied the project implementation • ABC coordinated the Brazilian contribution • SENAI provided the CTA with consultation in adminis- tration and organization; design of the laboratory service offers; training of technical professionals in: - Water supply and sanitation - Clean production - Solid waste management and recycling • GIZ advised the CTA in the development of new inter- national networks and partners, including the private sector; construction of service offers; training of technical professionals in air and clean development mechanism; land and regeneration of degraded areas; energy efficiency and renewable energies; and technological innovation. Project duration and cost The project was launched in 2010 and concluded in 2016 with a total cost of US$5.3 million, comprising: • APCI / SENATI Peruvian contribution: US$1.2 million • ABC / SENAI Brazilian contribution: US$2.8 million • BMZ / GIZ German contribution: US$1.3 million. The Brazil–Cape Verde–Senegal cooperation project The implementation of a census using electronic data collec- tion is one of the successful social mechanisms that Brazil shares with its partners in the Global South. The trilateral SSC project, Centres of Reference in Censuses with Electronic Data Collection, is funded by ABC, costing up to US$500,000 and running between 2016 and 2019. It is a result of the partnership between ABC; the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE); the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the statistical insti- tute of Senegal, Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD); and Cape Verde’s National Statistics Institute (INECV). The project aims to transform the statisti- cal institutes of Senegal and Cape Verde into reference centres in electronic data collection technology for African countries so that knowledge may be shared with other nations of the continent. Among topics covered during the training and exchange of experiences in the project are: • Training of the census staff • Census mapping applied to electronic collection • Technological infrastructure, including methodology for the use of electronic data collection • Electronic questionnaire, monitoring and control • Awareness in society • Dissemination of data • Fundraising for demographic censuses. Improved data collection technology, made available through SSC, is expected to contribute to the development of the forthcoming censuses on the African continent, within the framework of the population and housing census 2020, and consequently to build an information base of statistics that supports the development of realistic and appropri- ate public policies. In addition, the project complements the actions already taking place in Africa to monitor the Sustainable Development Objectives of the 2030 Agenda, as well as the targets set out in the African Union 2063 Agenda, “The Africa We Want”. New areas of cooperation between ABC and the Islamic Development Bank Potential areas of collaboration have been established between ABC and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) with the organizing, by ABC, of the symposium on South- South Cooperation: trends and challenges ahead of the BAPA+40 conference, held in Brasilia in March 2018, with the support of IsDB. During the symposium, and with a view to exchanging opinions and deepening mutual understanding, participant countries were invited to engage in discussion on the main topics to be addressed at the United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40) to be held in Buenos Aires in March 2019.