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BRAZIL - PAVILION

As part of the Festival of Cultures of the Biennale of Luanda 2021, discover the cultural content proposed by Brazil!

In 1987, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) created the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) to plan, coordinate, negotiate, approve, implement, follow up and evaluate technical cooperation programs, projects and activities for the purpose of development in all fields of knowledge, be these actions undertaken by Brazil abroad or from abroad to Brazil in the bilateral, trilateral or multilateral modalities.

In the case of cooperation from abroad to Brazil, ABC operates in two modalities: multilateral and bilateral. Multilateral cooperation takes place with an international organization while bilateral cooperation is undertaken with a developed country. The cooperation received aims to accelerate the process of social and economic development in Brazil through the training of national institutions at the three levels of the federation (federal, state and municipal), and through the sharing of technology and knowledge.

 

As the years passed, Brazil, which before would merely receive technical assistance from developed countries and international organizations, started to provide cooperation abroad. To undertake these action, ABC counts on about 120 cooperating entities all over the country, in the public and private sectors alike; it also has strategic alliances with developed countries (Germany, Canada, Spain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, among others) in addition to partnerships with 45 international organizations, blocks of regional and extra-regional countries, and cooperation projects in more than 100 developing countries, including the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Members and Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

The cooperation from Brazil to abroad is exclusively undertaken in response to demands received officially through diplomatic channels (Brazilian embassies abroad) or through foreign diplomatic representations in Brasilia, Brazil. In over 30 years of existence, ABC has built a record of approximately 8 thousand projects.

Since 2017, ABC has also coordinated the humanitarian actions on behalf of the Brazilian Government through the donation of food, medicines and other items of necessity to aid countries and populations in a situation of social and environmental disaster, public calamity, armed conflict, food and nutrition insecurity or any other emergency or vulnerability situation, which include serious threats to life, health and human or humanitarian rights. The Agency also coordinates the humanitarian cooperation received by Brazil from abroad. This type of cooperation is currently widely used to fight against the current outbreak of Coronavirus. Please click here for further information on Brazilian technical cooperation.

More Information are available on

the Agência Brasileira de Cooperação's website

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UNESCO Multimedia Resources on Brazil

In the film "The Slave Route - The Soul of Resistance", the history of the trade in human beings is told through the voices of slaves, but also of slave masters and slave traders.

Each one tells his or her experience: from the deportation of men and women to the plantations to the daily work and the abolition movements.

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All UNESCO multimedia resources about Brazil are available here!

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