What is TCTP?

Third Country Training Programme (TCTP) is a modality of trilateral cooperation required under the Japan-Brazil Partnership Programme (JBPP), operated by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC)  and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) . The TCTP promotes institutional strengthening and human resource training of the partner countries in priority areas for local development through technology transfer, enhancing skills and competences and dissemination of creative solutions.

The program seeks to strengthen ties between Brazilian institutions and their counterparts in Latin America, Africa and East Timor, through technical cooperation activities that will contribute to sustainable development and improving the quality of life with more social justice.

The Brazil-Japan Technical Cooperation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2010 and now consolidates a cumulative outstanding achievements in various areas of applied knowledge of recognized significance to the participating institutions. Japan is one of the partners that more contributes with financial and technical resources in joint actions with the Brazilian government.

Renowned Brazilian institutions , many of which were beneficiary from the Japanese cooperation in the past, now spread technology, internalized and adapted to local conditions, to specialists from invited countries and other Brazilian regions. In 2010, nearly 200 technicians, among Brazilian and foreign participants were trained in 11 different courses.

In 2011/12 calendar, the program, which has been expanding, offers 22 courses , lasting up to two months, in priority areas such as health, agriculture, environment and urban management.

"The  candidate must be from one of the invited countries, or a Brazilian, work in the public sector of the country, in the focusing area of the training, and be nominated by his government to participate in the selection process, in order to implement actions to promote the dissemination of acquired knowledge after returning to work at his/her institution.

In this regard, during the course, participants will develop a project proposal aiming to be studied along with the bodies that indicated him/her in a perspective that a formal follow-up project proposal is presented . Participants will also have the continued support of the Coordinating and Implementing institutions through regular reporting, which will enable the monitoring of results in their country of origin, possibly even through the implementation of cooperation projects, conducting seminars and other actions that help to promote the application of acquired knowledge for the benefit of their country.

Over the past two and a half decades as a result of this important practice of international cooperation, experience has shown that participants in the TCTP have multiplied the knowledge gained in their countries and have contributed to the strengthening of ties between our societies and institutions, promoting exchange of good practices and fostering new initiatives of cooperation.