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For an overview of Portugal's Official Development Assistance, please click here.   

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  The Portuguese Development Cooperation Institute/ Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD) is responsible for Portugal's development cooperation. It carries out the policies formulated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros.

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   Target Countries:  <back to top>
  Priority countries of Portuguese development cooperation are the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe, as well as Timor-Leste. Other countries that received Portuguese aid in 2002 were Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela, West Sahara, Zimbabwe.

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   Development priorities:  <back to top>
  Portugal's development priorities are the Millenium Development goals with the overall goal of poverty alleviation.

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   Priority sectors:  <back to top>
  The priority sectors of Portuguese development cooperation are education, health, agriculture, private sector development, infrastructure, the producing sector.

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   Donors' Approaches:  <back to top>
  Portugal works with the Programme Based Approach and the Project Approach.

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  Information not identified yet.

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  Information not identified yet.

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   NGOs:  <back to top>
  IPAD co-finances NGO activities. Information and submission criteria and guidelines in Portuguese are accessible here: http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt > ONGD.

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   Submission:  <back to top>
  Information on submission criteria and procedures (in Portuguese) are available here: http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt > Avaliação.

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Policy documents (in Portuguese) can be accessed on IPAD's website: http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt > Legislação.


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Name Ministry of Foreign Affairs/
Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
Street Address   Palácio das Necessidades
Largo do Rilvas,1399
030 Lisboa
Phone [+351] (21) 3946000
E-mail E-Mail form: http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt/mne > ??? (click on this sign) > contacto
Website (languages) http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt/mne (Portuguese)
Name Portuguese Development Cooperation Institute/
Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD)
Postal Address Avenida da Liberdade, 192-2°
1250-147 Lisboa
Phone [+351] (21) 3176700
Fax [+351] (21) 3147897
E-mail cooperacao.portuguesa@ipad.mne.gov.pt
Website (languages) http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt (Portuguese)

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  Information concerning this section on Portuguese development cooperation was taken from the following sources:
Portuguese Development Cooperation Institute, http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt, access: 06 November 2003;
Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt/mne, access: 06 November 2003.

 
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