CANADA-BRAZIL COOPERATION
COOPERAÇÃO BRASIL-CANADÁ

PROASNE is funded by a contribution from CIDA's Technology Transfer Fund (TTF).  CIDA and its Brazilian counterpart, Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (ABC) jointly select and approve projects to be implemented under the fund.  The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and the Geological Survey of Brazil - CPRM jointly developed PROASNE over a two-year period (March 1998 to April 2000), and are the lead partners in the Project.  GSC and CPRM have a long standing Memorandum of Understanding and were lead partners in another CIDA-funded project before PROASNE. 

There were four other founding partners of PROASNE: the Economic Development Agency for NE-Brazil - SUDENE; the Ceará Branch of the Brazilian Groundwater Association - ABAS/CE; the Ministry of Mines and Energy - MME; and the high profile Comunidade Solidária Social Program with direct links to the office of the President of the Republic and the First Lady. These original partners played an important role during the early stages of the Project by providing much needed political and institutional support.  Comunidade Solidária, through its community action group UniSol, went on to be extremely active and a major contributor of social actions in all of PROASNE's pilot areas until its operations were put on hold by the new Federal Government when it took office in January 2003. SUDENE, on the other hand, was disbanded soon after the launching of PROASNE and contributed little to the Project.  

The following is a list of Brazilian and Canadian partners in the Project since its inception with links to their web sites.  Canadian partners are mostly private sector firms that contributed to the transfer of technology to Brazil, whereas the Brazilian partners are either recipients of this technology and/or have conducted projects or otherwise have supported PROASNE's actions in the pilot areas.  

 last modified: 2004-09-03

PROASNE's administrative structure is simple but highly efficient. The Project is delivered by multiple partners in both countries

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