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3 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION The Makkah Declaration, in 1983 the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) launched a dedicated Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) among IsDB member countries. IsDB Technical Cooperation Programme The TCP strives to achieve the following main objectives: • Mobilise the technical capacity expertise and training capabilities of IsDB member countries for the purpose of fostering collaboration within those countries • Promote opportunities for the exchange of experience, information and appropriate technologies suited to the development needs of member countries • Alleviate the managerial, technical and institutional constraints that retard project implementation and effi- ciency • Intensify the matching of needs identified in member countries with the capacities available in other member countries, and promote closer partnership among them. Source: IsDB Source: IsDB Study visit to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, (icddr,b) organized for the benefit of The Gambia, Maldives, Mozambique and Sierra Leone Image: icddr,b TCP geographic regions TCP operation type 25 20 15 10 5 0 US$ million Asia and Latin America Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Non-member countries Knowledge-Sharing Events On-the-Job Training Recruitment of Experts