Develop win-win relations

Development aid is one of the priorities of the Region Rhone-Alpes. It spends an annual budget of nearly 10 million euros (first local authority budgets in France).

Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe... For 20 years, the Region Rhone-Alpes cooperates with many regions of the world. Whether economic, cultural, scientific or relates to development aid, this collaboration allows the Region to work for the public interest. These collaborations are intended to encourage the development of economic, cultural and academic exchanges on the basis of regional skills: economic development planning, training, support for decentralization, while working towards the goal of development and international solidarity.

Through linkages with the regions of sub-Saharan Africa for several decades, the Region Rhone-Alpes accompanies its African partners on the path of interregional development.

The Region has established regional partnerships in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and Madagascar. In Mali, the region cooperates with the Region of Timbuktu, Senegal with the regions of Saint Louis and Matam, in Burkina Faso with the Region of the High Basins, and in Madagascar with the province of Tamatave.

To facilitate exchanges between these regions, a cooperation project has been created: the "Cell Partnership Exchanges and Rhone-Alpes, West Africa, Madagascar" (CEPRAOM). Exclusive in France, this tool allows cooperation to pool and promote linkages and inter-African exchanges of experiences. Examples of joint actions: support to decentralization, vocational training and university.

For example, the Senegalese region of Matam and Saint-Louis and the Region has contributed to the creation of vocational training courses, the development of water infrastructure, the creation of a learning center for youth and the establishment of a micro-credit program.

It is in this context that the Région Rhone-Alpes supports Xetic today.

In recent years, in partnership with the Association ECIDEC, the Rhône-Alpes has launched a fund to support local initiatives in Matam. Developed in collaboration with three microfinance institutions, this program enables farmers, ranchers and artisans receive funding and specific support to facilitate the realization of their economic initiatives.

In this case, Xetic specifically supports projects of the "Mutual Savings and Credit Bamtaaré".

To learn more about the policy of decentralized cooperation in the Région Rhone-Alpes: click here

To download the report 2007 of the Europe Division, International Relations and Cooperation: click here

To discover all our partners and how to support Xetic : click here